Blue Green Planet

Perhaps taking Polaroid shots is a kind of "making," a bit of physical creation in a mostly-digital world. Hold the artistic work ...

Arriving in Los Angeles, it feels like I’ve stepped into another era. The architecture, the boulevards, the landscaping and form—low-slung w...

I didn’t realize someone Taiwanese invented instant noodles. WHAT?!?? This is the most mind-blowing factoid I've come across this week,...

When she's taking a break from her gig in Los Angeles, one of the presidential teenagers has been touring West Coast schools. According ...

Brogramming comes about not because it's actively promoted, but because our school isn't doing the careful gardening and cultivation...

It has been 25 years since students stood on the Square. Joined by citizens from all walks of life, they sought greater freedom and justice...

In the popular imagination, Stanford luminesces with ideals and innovation; but if you take a closer look, the eye-numbing, headache-induci...

A moving multimedia piece was featured in  The New York Times  yesterday, entitled "Chinese, On the Inside." It features Catie and...

This is the poster for a course I am co-teaching with Deland Chan in the spring (URBANST145 / EARTHSYS138). Find out more at www.internation...

There are moments when I wonder if I'd be better off living a hundred years ago. Time to think, to write, to read. Where crafting a thou...

I went to a cooking class last night where they taught us how to make pasta by hand. What fun! We rolled out the dough into thin sheets, cut...

The Tufts alumni magazine has an intriguing feature that splits North America up into various "nations" that have distinct cultur...

Does anyone else notice an uncanny resemblance between the Apple "Spaceship" Headquarters that has been proposed, and the GCHQ...

Part of the reason we like books is that they are timeless: temporal transportation at your fingertips. One can always return to a beloved c...

Via Facebook Stickers. I'm parking this graphic here to embed it elsewhere.

There was once Good night, and good luck I'll find you again, dear morning Sheer nighttime Slate gray A day, a day, a day

The moon is a massive mirror hanging in the sky. I wonder if anyone ever tells the earth to look at its own reflection in that mirror. If ...

The world still spins round and round, orbiting that bright star. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, 中秋節快樂! The light from the moon bathes fields ...

Bwa ha ha.  From  Matt Walsh : I always love the older folks who lecture about how THEIR kids weren’t as “attached to electronics” as kids...

Red Rose, White Rose, and all the goddamn tragedy of sunken, misfitting lives. Eileen Chang , how can you do this? From wondrous fragments o...