Yesterday, we looked back at old New York. Today, we look at something quite new. Time magazine has an in-depth article about 1 World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower, and some amazing pictures taken from atop it. Continue reading
Category Archives: Required Reading
HTML is… an STD?
I sometimes wonder where they find people for surveys; Family Feud doesn’t seem to have much trouble finding 100 people to answer questions, but when headlines like “1 in 10 Americans think HTML is an STD, study finds,” I scratch my head a bit. It starts to feel like more or less a dart throw. Continue reading
Those crazy hipsters and their facial hair implants
Deception in the form of a beard isn’t anything new to those in the gay community, but this is a brand new form of it that’s both amusing and a bit crazy to me.
When I read this article in the New York Post about people getting facial hair implants so they can grow a beard, it seemed both obvious and ridiculous. Continue reading
Flush with information: The Bathroom Reader series
Before I received a Kindle as a gift a few years back, my reading pattern was pretty predictable. I read paper books, and I tended to read more in the winter time, when it was colder out and I was indoors more. By the time college hit, I already had established a pattern of acquiring certain annual anthologies, all of which came out in the fall, likely to time for gift-giving season. Continue reading
If the Winter Olympics came to New York
One of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s failed attempts was to bring the Summer Olympics to New York in 2012. Other projects from that failed effort ultimately went ahead, but in the end the Olympics went elsewhere. Of course, with the Winter Olympics taking place this year in Sochi, Russia, a enterprising New York Times team of reporters and illustrators wondered: What if organizers attempted to construct venues appropriate for the Winter Olympics in The big Apple? Continue reading
Illuminating the problems with light in bedrooms while sleeping
As electronics proliferate in our homes, the number of devices with blinking or always-on lights has increased. This has created a situation where bedrooms aren’t nearly as dark as they were in earlier eras. When I first moved into my apartment, I had to begin placing an envelope on the cable company-supplied router, because there’s a big glowing blue set of lights on the top of it that made my room much brighter. Continue reading
If cessation were more successful
Over the years, petitions and threats have circulated of groups or portions of states talking about cessation from a given state to form its own. While none of them have panned out, options have existed (Texas has been argued to have the right to form up to five states, for instance). Continue reading
Why our fight with cancer may eventually fail
The New York Times brought Sunday a very well written piece by George Johnson on why cancer is probably the thing that will take the lives of many of us as our population ages. Having conquered so many different illnesses and diseases, we can’t fight nature, and cancer is for many caused by just that. Continue reading