Your city is a scab on the landscape: sidewalks, roads, parking lots, rooftops—the built environment repels water into sewers and then into the environment. Urban planners have been doing it for centuries, treating stormwater as a nuisance to be diverted away as quickly as possible to avoid flooding. Not only is that a waste of […]
Read MoreSamsung might not have changed the designs of its new phones, but it has still managed to improve many things that actually make a difference in everyday life. It made the screens brighter, improved the battery life, and managed to up the camera quality despite largely using the same cameras as last year. One such […]
Read MoreWhen Neil Buckland, an artist based in Seattle, met a geologist named Tony Irving a few years ago, he had no idea it would launch an extraterrestrial collaboration. Buckland was at the University of Washington photographing ultrathin slices of meteorite for a project Irving was working on. The cut space rocks didn’t seem particularly exciting […]
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