New works in the public domain since 1987.
Local bishop Wilhelm Egger says the display has hurt the religious feelings of museum visitors.
Religion Clause: Italian Museum Under Pressure For Display of Kipppenberger’s Crucified Frog
one-line programs that would fit inside Twitter’s 140-character buffer.
It’s been an ardently slow process to restore a unique structure commonly referred to as Bucky’s Dome.
LOST actor on upcoming role: “I get to talk about Bucky Balls and I talk about Buckminster Fuller and his theories about quantum physics.”
Buckminster Fuller (1885-1983), to whom the Whitney is devoting an exhibition (June 26-September 21).
The life and times of inventor R. Buckminster Fuller are the subject of a one-man show presented by Joe Spano at the Opera House.
One man show explores the life and mind of a visionary inventor | Napa Valley Register
Buckminster Fuller was also a strong advocate of mimicking nature to achieve sustainable systems
after WWII many unions supported shifting military spending to housing including Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion house, an inexpensive luxury home which would have greatly exceeded, in the late forties, today’s efficiency standards.
What is it good for? | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
a dome designed by the visionary Buckminster Fuller in the 1950s, in the middle of which is a transparent PVC pillow. When you walk onto it, you will appear to those below you to be walking on air.
Twisted structures that challenge the imagination – Times Online
the West has thrown $2.3 trillion dollars in aid to poor countries during the past five decades without much to show for it.
Reason Magazine – Where in the World Can We Do the Most Good?
A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander’s successful arrival at Mars. [LOVELY]
16,969 species new to science were discovered and described in 2006. [Compare this to claims about how many species went extinct that year. Perhaps we're not moving towards zero species after all.]
Most of the things we have been told to do might make us feel better, but they won’t make any difference.
A near pixel-perfect copy of Microsoft Paint in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Nothing frustrates grievance peddlers more than a rival victim group threatening their turf.
Carrie Lukas on American Association of University Women & Boys on National Review Online
“The new issue of Trevor Blake’s OVO Magazine features many Esozone participants: Anonymous, Johnny Brainwash, Klint Finley, Vincent Al Ken, Wes Unruh, and Edward Wilson. Plus many other fine contributors. For those not in the know, OVO has been published by Trevor Blake since 1987.”
Why aren’t there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research suggests: They just aren’t interested. [ya think?]
“I fail to see how it can be in the interests of a young girl to undergo treatment that will change her for the rest of her life.” [Too young for sex, but not too young for sex reassignment?]
