Parking Day 2

Ten years ago, PARK(ing) Day was established with the goal of temporarily transforming metered parking spaces into tiny public parks. Some of the novelty has worn off since then, but the appeal has only strengthened, and the annual event now occurs around the globe. With “The Goatlet,” in 2013, the San Francisco studio brought live… Read more »

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I attended a well-publicized exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden this past weekend. Unfortunately, the organization and aesthetic tone of “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life” was more artifice than art. The promise inherent in the first solo exhibition of the Mexican artist’s evocative work in New York City in over ten years was hardly… Read more »

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“High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things ‘go wrong’, it is already too late.” Anthony Giddens NASA’s recent finding that regardless of what humanity does, the world is locked into a roughly three-foot sea level… Read more »

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The One Belt, One Road policy (OBOR) launched last March by the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) aims to enhance coordination across the Asian continent, namely financial integration, trade liberalization, and person-to-person connectivity. One Belt is an economic land belt that builds on the ancient Silk Road that dates to the Han Dynasty… Read more »

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When we enjoy urban California’s verdant neighborhoods, fantastic parks, and green lawns we easily forget that most of this luxuriant vegetation is the result of irrigation. In times of intense drought like the one the entire West Coast is experiencing, it’s dismaying to learn that about half of the water the state uses in urban… Read more »

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Bioengineering achievements fascinate me. A few years ago, scientists at Harvard and Caltech successfully created an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle cells from a rat’s heart. Genetically it was still a rat, but morphologically and functionally, a jellyfish. As technology advances, we are able to mimic natures and create new ones in terms of… Read more »

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