by | Aug 31, 2013 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Poetry Written in Porcelain By CAROL VOGEL Andrew Testa for The New York Times LONDON — In England, Edmund de Waal is a celebrated potter, known for installations of impeccably made vessels in soft shades of celadon or white, many of them...
by | Aug 30, 2013 | Culture Music Art
from Sky News Life On Earth Started On Mars, Say Scientists There is growing evidence we are really Martians and that “life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock”. Images from NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars Life on Earth may have started...
by | Aug 29, 2013 | Culture Music Art
from BBC News US chimp Brent wins Humane Society art competition A US chimpanzee who paints with his tongue has won a $10,000 (£6,450) prize in a chimpanzee art competition. Brent, 37, created a delicate, vibrantly coloured work featuring daubs of violet, blue and...
by | Aug 28, 2013 | Weirdness
from edible geography The Pickle Index By NICOLA | Published: AUGUST 14, 2013 IMAGE: Two heads of whole zha cai with chilli paste; photograph by Sjschen via Wikipedia. Chinese officials, charged with moving 250 million rural farmers into cities over the next...
by | Aug 27, 2013 | Mirth
from The NY Times Riding Away From a Bar Crawl With Citi Bikes By SHEILA MARIKAR Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times It started as a normal date night: Shawn, a bearded graduate student who favors lumberjack plaid, went to Williamsburg for dinner and drinks with his...
