HOME IS BURNING by Dan Marshall

from The Guradian Home Is Burning: the profanity-laced terminal illness memoir with fart jokes Dan Marshall’s book about his father’s death – while his mother was stricken with cancer – is possibly the most scatalogical memoir of its kind ever, and now Hollywood has...

The Outlaw Bucky Fuller

from The New Yorker In the Outlaw Area BY CALVIN TOQKINS CREDITPHOTOGRAPH COURTESY CSU ARCHIVES / EVERETT When Richard Buckminster Fuller was in New Zealand a year ago, he spent several rewarding hours at the University of Auckland with a friend of his, a cultural...

Starry Night in Agar

from USA Today Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ recreated with bacteria in petri dish by Mary Bowerman (Photo: American Society for Microbiology) Bacteria may not be the tool of choice for most artists, but for microbiologists getting in touch with their...

The Real Big Bang

from Nautilus The Greatest Animal War BY BROOKE BOREL / ILLUSTRATIONS BY KATIE SCOTT A simple species count does not do justice to the power of the Cambrian Explosion. Species have continuously formed over time. A new type of moth may have antennae that are furrier...