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Vertical farming imagines a utopian future, but can it price out?
Now that there are hardly any farmers left to migrate from the cornfields to the city, farms themselves are poised to make the big move. This, at least, is the premise of Dickson Despommier’s The ...
Celebrity stalkers track Twitter and Facebook pages to plot burglaries.
In 1960s Los Angeles, Charlie Manson’s bloodthirsty hippies tried to start a revolution by slaughtering rich people. In 1980s Los Angeles, the cash-hungry yuppies of the Billionaire Boys Club turned to murder to bolster their ...
Anatomy lesson: the surprising rise of the male girdle.
Weary,perhaps, of trying to oppress fickle, headstrong teenage girls, the fashion industry has apparently moved on to an easier target: Dudes. In recent weeks, the New York Times, Time, ABC News, and various other media ...
The king is dead, long live the king.
F or many performers, top billing at the county fair is as good as the comeback trail ever gets. Michael Jackson had bigger ambitions. Two years ago, London’s Daily Mail reported that the singer was ...
From Twilight to reality TV, the young’uns seem to have an unending appetite for tedium.
The waiting is the hardest part, pop philosopher Tom Petty once counseled, but that was in 1981, well before 24-hour banking, overnight shipping, and 30-minute pizza delivery had become mainstays of American life. Today, a ...
Don’t we have bigger issues to worry about than droopy pants?
What else is the law but a metaphorical belt designed to uphold propriety and keep us from exposing our inherent baseness to each other? This is what an epidemic of legislative tailors seem to believe: ...
Shopping has become the new reading.
When was the last time you read a John Updike novel cover to cover in a single sitting? Or even a John Updike book jacket cover to cover in a single sitting? While dour eggheads ...
Path to the White House goes through late-night TV
Perhaps you’re a seasoned veteran of Congress with a flair for bilateral coalition-building. Or maybe you’re a public policy savant whose national health-care plan is so comprehensive it ensures that every pet in America is ...
The all-seeing, all-knowing eye in the sky that is Google.
FORUM In the Internet, somebody does know you’re a dog. Google, to be exact. And it has the pictures to prove it. The ominously helpful high-tech giant introduced a service called Street View in Las ...
Productivity and expertise are the goal of today’s summer getaways.
>>FORUMFor more than 100 years, parents horrified at the prospect of having to care for their restless, sullen teens have been dumping their progeny on summer camps. In the old days, as ‘80s period pieces ...
