Italian designer Mila Schoen dies

Italian fashion designer Mila Schoen died in her sleep at 91 years of age at her Italian villa on September 5th.  Schoen was a favourite designer of many established women, including Jacqueline Kennedy and...

Zumthor’s Cologne modern art museum is beyond time

"Peter Zumthor’s remarkable museum of modern art in Cologne meshes ancient and modern to create a timeless and evocative building. ‘The largest heap of rubble in the world,” is how the German architect...

Punk'd by the 1970's: Time Capsule Contains Porn

A time capsule was embedded a wall in the University of Washington's Dept. of Communications in the early 1950's, to be opened one hundred years later. Then, in the far-flung future of the late 1970's, pranksters opened the time capsule and inserted artifacts of their own,...

Darwin Day

"Did you know today was "Darwin Day?"  I did not know it existed…it must have just evolved to the point that I finally recognized it.  I was not going to take my discovery of a website named darwinday.org seriously until I stumbled upon this within the website,...

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