by Nicola | Apr 21, 2011
IMAGE: Garden show display advertising “super atomic energized seeds,” photo by Frank Scherschel for Life, 1961, via Pruned At her blog, Garden History Girl, Paige Johnson (by day, a nanotechnology researcher at the University of Tulsa), describes the... by Nicola | Apr 19, 2011
IMAGE: The Photosynthetic Restaurant at the Crocker Museum of Art, photo by Jonathon Keats. On Saturday, April 16, the world’s first photosynthetic restaurant for plants opened for business. Located outside the Crocker Museum for Art in downtown Sacramento, the... by Nicola | Apr 3, 2011
IMAGE: Matthew Moore’s farm being eaten by sprawl. All images via Matthew Moore. Over at GOOD, I published a story by Thomas Gorman, a Berkeley News21 Fellow, about farmer and artist Matthew Moore’s Lifecycles project. Moore is a sculptor and... by Nicola | Apr 1, 2011
These colour lithographs were originally made in 1850 at the request of Walter S. Sherwill, an army officer who served as a British “boundary commissioner” in Bengal. According to Ptak Science Books, these particular reproductions were taken from an article exploring... by Nicola | Mar 9, 2011
IMAGE: Mission: Gangs and Cupcakes, by Danya Al-Saleh. This map, created by UC Berkeley undergrad Danya Al-Saleh, overlays bakeries in The Mission district of San Francisco with Norteño and Sureño gang territory (for a larger PDF version, click here). As Al-Saleh...