Beautiful, Artistic, Cool and Recycled

from The San Jose Mercury News Amazing wooden bicycles: beautiful, artistic, cool and recycled By Bruce Newman Bill Holloway and Mauro Hernandez pose with their hand built wooden bicycles at their San Jose, Calif. shop. The pair run Masterworks Wood and Design....

Wandering Brains Are Keener

from The Telegraph UK Children whose minds wander ‘have sharper brains’ The results appear to confirm previous research that found working memory allows humans to juggle multiple thoughts simultaneously Photo: CORBIS A study has found that people who...

Rowley & Powers Do Warhol

from The New York Times Everywhere at Once Kirsten Luce for The New York Times Cynthia Rowley, left, and Bill Powers between parties. More Photos » By BOB MORRIS THE runway presentation at the futuristic IAC Building on the West Side Highway had gone off without a...

Encyclopaedia Britannica Gone

from The New York Times After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses By JULIE BOSMAN Ángel Franco/The New York Times After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were...

The Tom Cruise Of Porn

from The Guardian James Deen: The Tom Cruise of porn Adored by young women for his clean-cut image, this male porn star has been named as the likely lead actor in Bret Easton Ellis’s forthcoming film. But can an adult entertainer ever  make a successful...