by Nicola | Jul 22, 2013
Writing in The New York Times, author William Bryant Logan describes the contents of the dense blanket of air that descends over the city during a heatwave — a “summer soup” made up of “tiny particles of silicon, organic matter, threads, starch,... by Nicola | Jul 21, 2013
McDonald’s recently opened its 34,492nd restaurant, which was also its first in Vietnam. In response, The Guardian crunched some data in order to make its own McMap of the world. IMAGE: Number of McDonald’s by country at the end of 2012, from an... by Nicola | Jul 19, 2013
IMAGE: Seaweed farming rafts off the coast of the Chinese province of Jiangsu, south of the city of Qingdao, Bing Maps, via Mammoth. Via Mammoth’s Rob Holmes, we learn that the coastal city of Qingdao, China, is experiencing what local officials, channeling Don... by Nicola | Jul 17, 2013
IMAGE: Of New York City’s eleven 2013 Mayoral candidates, six attended the city’s first ever Food Forum. Original photograph via The New York Times; red Xs added by me to mark non-attendees. Those of us who care about the human and environmental... by Nicola | Jul 17, 2013
Golf, with a couple of hacks, can be a surprisingly delicious-looking game. Cutting golf balls in half, for example, reveals delightfully bonbon-esque interiors. All golf ball cross-section photographs by James Friedman. These cross-sections are the work of Ohio-based... by Nicola | Jul 8, 2013
A couple of months ago, Leonardo Amico, an interaction designer based at Fabrica, connected romaine lettuce leaves into an electrical circuit, attached a CMOS logic chip and a couple of oscillators to transform the voltage into tone, and recorded the result. Although...