by Nicola | Feb 13, 2013
As a coda to my previous post, I should note that before their adoption of apple ensachage and photographic tattoos, the nineteenth-century fruit growers of Montreuil had already adopted innovative peach growing techniques to produce the most coveted stone fruits in... by Nicola | Feb 12, 2013
IMAGE: A random mutation caused this Golden Delicious apple to turn half-red, half-green. According to Susan Brown, she can breed apples with a stable variation of this mutation that creates candy-cane red stripes on a pale yellow-skinned apple. Photo ARCHANT via The... by Nicola | Feb 10, 2013
IMAGE: Acoustic tribology diagram via NIZO. First, drink some black coffee. Next, rub your tongue against the roof of your mouth. It should feel a little rough, like very fine sandpaper: the tiny bumps on your tongue, called papillae, are raised just enough to create... by Nicola | Feb 4, 2013
The story below is cross-posted from Venue , where you can also read about lunar analogues in Arizona, prison visiting room portrait backdrops, cave organs, and more. Venue — a pop-up interview studio and multimedia rig traveling around North America through September... by Nicola | Jan 24, 2013
IMAGE: Ministry of Defence Main Building, photograph by JoanneB via Wikipedia. Like the Pentagon, its better-known counterpart in the United States, Britain’s Ministry of Defence building is a fairly mundane, if gigantic, office block camouflaging a much more...