On Friday, plant a park in a parking space.
National Park(ing) Day encourages people to reclaim pavement for green space. Instead of feeding the meter for your car, you “lease” the space to create a temporary park, with grass, benches, or whatever you fancy. Here in Austin, the local green art organization is designing a […]
Archive for September, 2007
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a piece of geostationary fruit
Published September 13th, 2007 in Bizarre and Human World. 3 CommentsImagine walking outside one clear, late summer day. You look up into the blue sky, admiring how the sunlight filters through the trees. A breeze flutters through the leaves. All is right with the world. But wait - what’s that, in the sky, just over the tops of the trees? It’s not a blimp, but […]
Studies verify stereotypes
Published September 10th, 2007 in Bizarre, Body & Mind and Science. 6 CommentsYou know how you always suspected that the female craziness for pink was a matter of gender marketing, or at least personal choice?
Turns out your suspicions were wrong. According to a new study, women really do prefer pink and men prefer blue, and it’s a deep-seated evolutionary trait that harks back to ye olde […]