For global warming to be accepted as both a serious issue and reality, it took the Arctic and Antartic icecaps to start melting at a rapid rate, glacial retraction, extreme weather patterns, rapid spreading of tropical disease, and unexplainable shifts in agriculture.
Sadly, despite millions in corporate investment for green technologies, six of the world’s largest [...]

Jonathan Harris explores human storytelling through creative digital interfaces. For his most recent project, he spent nine days accompanying the Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, on their thousand-year-old traditional whale hunt.
The entire experience is documented in a sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with his taxi ride to the airport and ending with the butchering of [...]

Here’s a jumble of tracks by The Rolling Stones.
Track Listing:
The Rolling Stones - Mannish Boy (Live)
The Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues
The Rolling Stones - Casino Boogie
The Rolling Stones - Live With Me
The Rolling Stones - The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
The Rolling Stones - Talkin’ About You
The Rolling Stones - Mercy Mercy
The Rolling [...]

The California Academy of Sciences is currently migrating 20 million specimens and 38,000 living animals to its new location in Golden Gate Park. The $484 million, 410,000 sq. ft. building designed by Renzo Piano boasts some absolutely stunning eco-friendly features and is expected to acquire LEED status.
Genuinely sustainable, the facility will be naturally lit, [...]

With the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing rapidly approaching, the Chinese government has recruited several bloggers and linguists to help ensure that the English portions of the city’s signs are properly translated and free of error.
Recently, the F-word has been popping up on many signs leaving government officials bewildered and expats amused. According to LAEM, [...]

Guerrilla artist the Decapitator has been making his/her mark on the streets of London by beheading high-profile advertisements around the city, leaving only bloody stumps.
As mentioned in Wired’s article “Culture-Jamming Decapitator Hacks London Ads“, “The Decapitator’s culture jamming pieces are reminiscent of the style of popaganda artist Ron English, whose seminal work in billboard subvertising [...]

Will energy harvested from the movement of pedestrians in high foot-traffic locales be the next big trend in renewable energy? Karl Sundholm, of the Swedish state-held property administration company Jernhuset, seems to think so.
He plans on using the body heat generated from the approximate 250,000 people that pass through Stockholm Central Station (the largest train [...]

Artist Brandt Botes’ latest Flickr set, “Obscene Interiors“, takes random vintage porn images from around the net and removes the porn stars, replacing them with a white silhouette. Although the observer can easily make out the positions being performed, it’s the old school surroundings and retro décor that make the images interesting.

Moscow’s skyline will soon be home to Earth’s largest building. Dubbed “Crystal Island“, the 450m tall superstructure will occupy an area just shy of half a million square meters.
The inside will be home to theaters, art exhibition space, a hotel with 3,000 rooms, 900 fully serviced apartments, retail space, a school for up to 500 [...]