The Paint Storm
Whitney Bedford’s paintings of ships and shipwrecks, ocean ice and fireworks, are simultaneously hot and cold, catastrophic and serene. It’s a tension that makes for some very turbulent art.
Archive
A collection of 14284 issues
November 10, 2014
* Protesters set Mexican President Nieto's palace on fire as anger over 43 missing students shows no sign of abating. * Unencrypted federal government websites providing AIDS-related resources have been leaking sensitive user information for years. * YouTube’s video blogging community...can sometimes enable an alarmingly specific type of
Catching Up With the Mp3 Bloggers
A decade ago, and then again five years later, we gathered a set of music bloggers who pioneered online music discovery—often to the chagrin of record labels. Now we reconvene to discuss the current state of listening to and reading about music online.
November 7, 2014
* Homeland Security says malware sponsored by Russia has been inserted into critical US infrastructure. * Putin says there was nothing wrong with the Soviet Union's pact with Nazi Germany, which secretly carved up Poland * Synthetic drug Spice rips across Russia, spread by kids and anonymous networks. * A year after
November 6, 2014
* Republicans want to define themselves affirmatively rather than by opposition; they should look to Friedrich Hayek. * Related: Birds found using human musical scales for the first time. * State judge overturns Missouri's constitutional ban on gay marriage. * Beheadings, massacres, and wholesale killings aren't limited to Islamic State
November 5, 2014
* Yesterday's GOP victory began months ago, when Republicans realized they had to quell the extremism within their party. * How the GOP did it. * The Senate now has enough votes to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. * Penal reform passes in California, downgrading some nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, and potentially
Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar
In the city of Irvine, in the county of Orange, in the state of California during a season of sports, sometimes America reaches maximum volume.
Queen of the Jungle
Orangutans are some of humans’ closest relatives, genetically. They also rarely exhibit aggression, despite how we've abused them. One is different.
November 4, 2014
* Winning the Senate might be GOP's worst nightmare: pressures of governing could tear obstructionist element asunder. * Non-Republicans will be watching elections across the country for polling place irregularities—i.e., voter ID problems. * See also: A reading of US newspaper opinion sections shows the misinformation at the
Another Space and Time
Popular notions of the Great American Desert were of a land barren and uninhabitable. But away from the frills of modern life, photographer Robin Mellor finds answers when he asks his subjects, “What’s the meaning of life?”