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Stocking Series, Part 4: The Rebellious Roll Garters
Wearing rolled stocking back then must have been akin to the liberating, punk rock feeling of wearing ripped fishnets today
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Jurassic Park 4′s Discharged Dinosaur Soldiers
Some scrapped Jurassic Park 4 designs show the movie’s insane ideas for dinosaur soldiers
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A New Great Depression and Ladies on the Moon: 1970s Middle School Kids Look to the Year 2000
The ideal future according to a ten-year-old: shorter school days, lower taxes, and lots and lots of robots
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A new Web site called Art.sy recommends art based on a visitor’s preference for a particular artist or artwork
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Bafflement Over the European Union’s Peace Prize Win
The European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, much to the dismay of many Europeans and Tweeters
We’re past the midpoint of the Great American History Puzzle now, friends. By this point, the plot has thickened. For some of you, I’m guessing, it’s positively congealed.
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The Traumatic Birth of the Modern (and Vicious) Political Campaign
When Upton Sinclair ran for governor of California in 1934, new media were marshaled to beat him
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Four Surprising Places Where Local Wines Thrive
Almost everywhere European explorers went, vineyards grew behind them. Here are a few places tourists might never have known there was wine to taste
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San Francisco’s Makeathon Leads the Way for Hacking the Urban Landscape
How citizens are using design interventions to shuffle social dynamics and change public space in cities
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Bad News Chemistry: Carbon Dioxide Makes Ice Weaker
An MIT study reveals that carbon dioxide directly reduces the strength of ice, which has troubling implications for climate change
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The Bat-Winged Dinosaur That Never Was
Just when naturalists began to suspect that birds might be dinosaurs, one researcher put forward a truly strange idea of what early bird ancestors would have looked like
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Events October 12-14: Dream Homes, Classic Jewelry and Printmaking
It’s a full weekend of artist discussions, seminars and workshops for the home, fashion and art enthusiasts
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As the Nation’s Front Lawn, the National Mall is Getting a Refresh
The Trust for the National Mall hopes to fund one of two projects that could bring an amphitheater, restaurant or ice skating rink to the Mall
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Painting Portraits With Bacteria
Microbiologist Zachary Copfer has created detailed portraits of famous artists and scientists in petri dishes
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Did T. rex use its tiny arms to do push-ups?
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The Top Ten Human Evolution Discoveries from Ethiopia
Home to Lucy, Ardi, the oldest stone tools, the first fossils of modern humans and many other discoveries, Ethiopia deserves the title of Cradle of Humankind
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New Technology Maps Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Street and Neighborhood Level
The Hestia project draws on a variety of data sources to paint a comprehensive picture of a city’s greenhouse gas metabolism
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Why are there so few rules or instructions? It’s all part of the plan
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Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 03 – The Space Car
The Jetsons didn’t invent the flying car, but it sure did a lot to cement the idea of the airborne automobile into the American imagination
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This 105-Year-Old Made Marilyn Monroe’s Earrings
Meet Sadie Mintz, a jewelry maker who saw her handiwork on the cover of LIFE magazine
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