Dec 18th, 2008 · The guitarist's newest CD, The Music of Jason Crigler, deserves attention because of the variety of style and performance, and the natural fit you often hear between singer and song. But the story behind this recording, which was nine years in the making, goes beyond music.
Dec 18th, 2008 · University of Nevada at Reno researchers just built a brand-new bridge — then promptly tried to knock it down by simulating an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. They hope the new seismic designs will survive quakes and other natural disasters well enough to allow emergency vehicles to get across, if not full traffic loads. From Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, Ben Adler reports.
Dec 18th, 2008 · What drives the rubbernecking with Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff is not the nature or even scale of the alleged crimes. It's the chutzpah. Barack Obama wrote The Audacity of Hope. These characters could write "The Audacity of Hubris."
Dec 16th, 2008 · The collapse of the housing market is often described with the language of a natural disaster: tsunami, hurricane or earthquake. In Las Vegas, foreclosures run seven times the national average. A visit there reveals just how right on the natural disaster analogy is.
Dec 11th, 2008 · Many people go to the bathroom with their cell phones. And sometimes, the phone ends up answering the call of nature. "It happens quite often," says an official at Simplexity, an online wireless phone reseller.
Dec 5th, 2008 · Team Love Records describes Joker's Daughter as "folk pop," but the truth is that the collaboration between vocalist and songwriter Helena Costas and famed producer Danger Mouse is hardly typical of that genre. A full-length debut album won't be unveiled until February 2009, but a single, "Worm's Head," has been released as part of a three song EP and offers a glimpse into the eclectic nature of the project.
Nov 23rd, 2008 · This week in Paris, one of the last icons of 20th century French intellectual life turns 100. Claude Levi-Strauss, a painter's son, not only reshaped the nature of how anthropologists do their work: He changed the world's perception of so-called "primitive" tribes in Asia, Africa and America.
Nov 22nd, 2008 · The environmental author writes about the collision of the human and natural worlds. She's best known for Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her new book is called, Finding Beauty in a Broken World.