Doctor's Review
"The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past." … more »
CNET
"Federal government will make 400 million N95 masks available for free at U.S. pharmacies and community health centers across the U.S. Some pharmacies have already received their shipment. The full program is expected to be up and running by early February, while a free testing-at-home program has also been launched." … more »
Yves Marchand.RomainMeffre.Prestel
"A new photography book documents once-opulent movie theaters across America that have been abandoned or repurposed into something new." … more »
NASA
I won't be cheap but it's cheaper than doing nothing. … more »
Josh Bauer/NREL
"Replacing fossil fuel-based energy with clean energy like wind power is essential to holding off the worsening effects of climate change. But that transition isn’t happening fast enough to stop global warming. Human activities have pumped so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that we will also have to remove carbon dioxide from the air." … more »
Altermedia.org
"New high-speed cellphone services have raised concerns of interference with aircraft operations, particularly as aircraft are landing at airports. The Federal Aviation Administration has assured Americans that most commercial aircraft are safe, and AT&T and Verizon have agreed to hold off on installing their new cellphone antennas near airports." … more »
CSPP
A very interesting and accurate column written by Daniel Borenstein about how ballot measures are written and fail to be impartially presented. … more »
ByFusion
"Every year, Americans generate about 42 million tons of plastic waste. Only 9% of that gets recycled, in part because the recycling infrastructure in the U.S. can’t keep up with the country’s plastic production, but also because some plastics simply can’t be recycled. Los Angeles-based startup ByFusion is on a mission to change that." … more »
Google Real Estate
"The finished buildings will have 90,000 tiles which form a “solar skin” roof, which its designers have named “dragonscale” and estimate will generate almost 7 megawatts of energy or 40% of the electricity needs of the campus." … more »
Macklowe Properties
"One Wall Street provides a timely model for converting empty office buildings into residential units. The question now is how to create affordable adaptive reuse housing that won’t just cater to the elite." … more »
