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...

Joanna Newsom’s DIVERS

from PASTE Magazine Joanna Newsom: Divers Review By Mack Hayden I was a non-believer for a pretty long time. Joanna Newsom was an artist I just didn’t “get.” I was too busy being pretentious about Pavement in my younger years to really give her quirky, baroque...

Mr. Richardson’s First Monograph

from Harper’s Bazaar TERRY RICHARDSON RELEASES HIS FIRST MONOGRAPH By Erica Gonzales Terry Richardson, an image maker renowned for his often provocative, bold and striking portraits is releasing a new tome with Rizzoli. The self titled, Terry...

Saving The Accidental Sea

from KCET Why Don’t Californians Care About Saving The Salton Sea? by Chris Clarke The Salton Sea is critical wildlife habitat | Photo: David Prasad/Flickr/Creative Commons License It looks as though the state of California is starting to take the dying Salton...