The Lumpen Proletarian

For the Yachting Class, the Latest Amenity Can Take Flight - New York Times

Many among the rich or famous want a yacht, and what buyers want most now are accessories: minisubmarines and helicopters.

Scientists Are Making Brazil’s Savannah Bloom - New York Times

Brazil is today the world’s top exporter of soybeans and beef. How has it become an agricultural superpower?

Fair Trade in Bloom - New York Times

Corporations are rushing to meet the demand for food products that meet social and environmental standards.

AskOxford: in vino veritas

Orson Welles, Meet Dexter - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Bits is a blog about technology, innovation and society from The New York Times.

Canadian Court Opens Up eBay Data to Tax Agency - New York Times

A Canadian court has ruled that tax collectors can demand and review data from eBay to see how much money individual sellers make on the online auction site.

The Conflicted Life of the Modern Immigrant Doctor - New York Times

Doctors who write about medicine tend to dwell on the big themes: life, death, suffering, hope and the rest. Dr. Vincent Lam also looks into the life of the modern immigrant doctor.

Hany Farid -Photo Manipulation - Proving That Seeing Shouldn't Always Be Believing - New York Times

Hany Farid, a 41-year-old engineer, is a founder of a subdiscipline within computer science: digital forensics.

Climate Change - Sea Ice - Arctic - New York Times

Scientists are concerned by this summer’s massive polar ice melt and its implications for the future.

Open 2.4GHz RFID

Technology could enable computers to 'read the minds' of users

PhysOrg news: Technology could enable computers to 'read the minds' of users

Game theory AI research moves from Ph.D. thesis to experimental police tool

PhysOrg news: Game theory AI research moves from Ph.D. thesis to experimental police tool

Genes influence people's economic choices

PhysOrg news: Genes influence people's economic choices

Beyond a 'speed limit' on mutations, species risk extinction

PhysOrg news: Beyond a 'speed limit' on mutations, species risk extinction

Inca Sacrifices Were 'Fattened Up' First

PhysOrg news: Inca Sacrifices Were 'Fattened Up' First

Nanotube forests grown on silicon chips for future computers, electronics

PhysOrg news: Nanotube forests grown on silicon chips for future computers, electronics

Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle

PhysOrg news: Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle

U.S. Labs Mishandling Deadly Germs

PhysOrg news: U.S. Labs Mishandling Deadly Germs

Fuji Xerox Prototype Translator Copier

PhysOrg news: Fuji Xerox Prototype Translator Copier

Living in Dust: Gut Renovation on the Cheap - New York Times

New Yorkers are forced to make the most of small spaces, but it is unlikely that many have done it as gracefully and inexpensively as Mark Robohm and his partner, Stephanie Doucette.

Kienholz - Back Seat Dodge ’38 - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - New York Times

Forty years later “Back Seat Dodge ’38,” Edward Kienholz’s most recognizable work, has now been installed in a setting that matches what the artist’s former wife says he intended all along.

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UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time

The Living Campus Program

Photo Essay: Sea Change

As climate change melts the permafrost, Arctic villages slip into the sea, taking a way of life with them.