There is just about everything in the world. Even a menu library. Somebody’s compulsive behavior has become our reward. To some menus are pieces of…
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Here is an industry that keeps every city afloat, if not for them all cities would surely fall. We ridicule them and pay no respect…
When Beans Were Bullets: War-Era Food Posters is a great exhibition held at the National Agricultural Library. This collection shows how the government was able…
Google Lit Trips is putting literature back on the map. If you are a bibliophile, you can plan your trip around famous literature. Google Lit…
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/83327935001?isVid=1 The best show on the air or iTunes is back tonight. Mad Men season four begins with new twists. The fleshed out characters have…
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13010221&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 Our worth is greatly exaggerated on this planet. We find new ways to create and destroy at the same time. Stephen Ong’s insightful little…
In a case of Aerosmith in reverse, lady looks like a dude. Google is celebrating the birth of Frida Kahlo, who was born on July…
http://blip.tv/play/AeaDFAI The magnitude of nuclear bomb testing by various countries from 1945- 1998 is staggering as artist Isao Hashimoto explores through a global bird’s eye…
Here is an interesting study in racial tolerance and discrimination at the same time. Since 1790 the population of the United States has been filled…
TOTEM by Cirque du Soleil is the latest venture by the Montreal entertainment outfit. Many months go into planning events such as this as labored…
Mark Twain sure knows how to attract attention to himself even after 100 years. He stipulated that his memoirs be published 100 years after his…
Image the price of a yearly subscription to the National Geographic magazine multiplied by many years. You’ve seen them in second hand book shops in…
http://fora.tv/embedded_player I keep thinking of REM’s song “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” Learning from our past…
Artist Russell Walks has embarked on a captivating endeavor to infuse life into the otherwise mundane periodic table. Through his remarkable creation, the "Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements.
How will people judge us in one hundred years from now? The following video was taken on April 14, 1906, four days before the great…
The Way the Future Was by great Science Fiction writer Frederik Pohl has morphed into a blog. The writer was coaxed into writing a blog…
Tea is quite a unique beverage in many quarters. In North America, the tea party symbolizes a revolution to the old ways of the England…
The tallest buildings of the future are mostly either delayed or canceled due to lack of money. Nimrod will have to wait before he can…
I am amazed at the color names introduced each school year. Crayola began with eight colors in 1903 and is up to 120 as of…
This little gem got under the radar. Andre Schiffrin collects the pre-Seuss classic editorial cartoons. True Seuss collectors will enjoy this book precursor to the…
Robert E. Lee Day is a state holiday in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Mississippi celebrated along Martin Luther King Day. Go figure. Time…