Revisionist Fries
Personally I prefer the local family chip-wagon with a dash of vinegar and salt. ‘French fries have long been a quick-service staple, as well as the subject of intense debate over which brand does them best. However, a case can be made that recent launches have been different. Sexier.’ GlaceContinue Reading
Is the Global Meat Industry on the Threshold of Big Changes?
‘The introduction of lab-grown meat is inevitable and we should have our say on the issue to steer the technology in the most ethical direction possible. I also believe that if certain conditions are met vegans could support lab-grown meat in a bid to reduce harm to animals and forContinue Reading
All that is solid…….
….melts or dissolves or is simply shown to be the historical confabulation that it is.Continue Reading
Post Brexit: Affordable housing for 50,000 at Buckingham Palace
A Munich-based architecture practice has written an open letter to the queen, asking that she consider sharing her palace with those less fortunate.Continue Reading
Local Journalist Linda Gyulai Adds Another Missing Piece to Montreal’s Municpal Management Puzzle
Linda Gyulai has been one of Montreal’s top investigative reporters for quite a while and her in-depth articles on corruption and slight of hand over the years at city hall reads like a B movie script with a cast of of smiling shifty grifters in suits that includes mayors, cityContinue Reading
One’s [odd] place in the world
In the interview with Marie-Claire magazine’s French edition, Moix, the author of several prize-winning novels, added that women in their 50s were “invisible” to him. “I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 isContinue Reading
Hyperventilation Is Over The Wall
The latest quote from Trump concerning the stalemate over funding his WALL: “I may declare a national emergency dependent on what’s going to happen over the next few days, we’re looking at it very strongly. We have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked allContinue Reading
The Dawn of the Ultraintelligent Machines: Will They or Climate Change Kill us All Off First?
“An ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.” I.J.Good (colleague of Alan Turing) “You’re probably not an evilContinue Reading
Vice
Should be fun. “Nothing about Trump should now cast Cheney in a more favourable light. In truth they represent different versions – each nearly a caricature – of the American ruling class. Trump is a vain, imbecilic Master of the Universe who has sleazed his way to the top – first ofContinue Reading
A Fully Biodegradable Cork Shed for the Backyard
In my google search for an image for this article I got a series of photo’s of streets in Cork, Ireland. So I went with that. The structure featured in the article might frighten the neighbours after a few years but it is only cosmetic. https://www.dezeen.com/2018/12/20/bark-studio-cork-studio-recyclable-building-sustainable-architecture/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen&utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen+CID_7cc8ea51bb2d22edfe83483263e90d8d&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Studio%20Bark%20buildsContinue Reading