Human Environment
Public and private places and buildings, including cities, monuments, parks and reservations
Classic Movie Theaters: The Colonial, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
A recurring series about movie theaters of the past
October 07, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
The World Monuments Fund 2012 Watch List
The latest Watch List from the World Monuments Fund cites 67 invaluable places in need of attention, in some cases protection from tourists
October 06, 2011 |
By Susan Spano
The Bear and the Bullet
The truck came by slowly and a spotlight swept the river bottom. "My God—they're hunting me!"
October 06, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
America’s Real Jurassic Park Re-Opens
The quarry wall strewn with hundreds of bones representing some of the most famous dinosaurs is now open to the public again
October 06, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Science on Screen: Explaining Why Zombies Want to Eat You and Other Mysteries of Life
A film series examines how movies make use of science
October 05, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000
A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries and, best of all, night baseball games
October 04, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Tea and Bear Talk in Turkey
"It's too dangerous," said a villager. "There are bears." His boys growled and clawed the air
October 04, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
What It’s Like Inside a Dinosaur
I was probably the oldest dinosaur fan in attendance for the show; kids stared in wide-eyed amazement at what, to all appearances, was a real dinosaur right in front of them
October 03, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Scaling the Washington Monument
Mountaineering park ranger Brandon Latham talks about how engineers investigated the monument from hundreds of feet above the ground
October 03, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
Dinosaur Sighting: A Special Archaeopteryx 150th Anniversary Edition
A visit to Munich meant a pilgrimage to the paleontology museum
September 30, 2011 |
By Brian Wolly
Swimming in Paris
Lap-swimming in Paris takes cultural openness and skimpy bathing attire
September 30, 2011 |
By Susan Spano
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village Redux
An outstanding collection of Shaker arts and crafts moves to the old Shaker Village in New York
September 28, 2011 |
By Susan Spano
The Terrible Dinosaurs of the 1970s
How many students are still meeting outdated dinosaurs, rather than the dinosaurs we now know?
September 28, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Playing It Again: The Big Business of Re-Releases
How rereleases drove—and still drive—the film industry
September 28, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
When We All Commute by Airplane
If commuting to work via personal aeroplane was the future, how might the design of cities change to accommodate them?
September 27, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Istanbul: The Maddest City in Europe
“That’s the fattest stray dog I’ve ever seen.” A lot has changed here since Mark Twain wrote about the city, but there's still plenty of mayhem
September 27, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
Where to Go when Greece Says No: Turkey
That evening a man walked into my bush camp with a gun, marched straight at me as I gaped in shock and sprawled out beside me on my tarp
September 23, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
From Toronto to New York: The Fall Film Festivals
The fall film festival lineup is filled with avant garde movies and Oscar contenders
September 23, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
Uphill All the Way in the Rhodope Mountains
I have my dinner—cheese, an absurd four-pound organic tomato, a sack of figs and a jar of pickled chanterelles—and I’m ready to get lost on the mountain roads
September 21, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
Out Where the West Begins
A new boxed DVD set examines the history of the West in films.
September 21, 2011 |
By Daniel Eagan
