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counter space 
Tucked away in the back corner of the MoMA's second floor is counter space, a well-curated exhibit walks us through the evolution of the modern kitchen, both in...
ideas 
Army of Engineers 
There is a powerful, growing demand for technologists in New York City. Startups compete for talent, seducing them away from Silicon Valley and from overseas. ...
ideas 
The Facebook Colony 
When English settlers arrived in The New World they had a very different conception of the land than the Native Americans who already occupied it. Many of the...
installation, ideas 
Nuclear Wilderness 
While exploring Roderick Nash's classic "Wilderness and the American Mind", I was drawn to a talk by Peter Galison. He is in progress on a film about "zones of...
ideas 
Grasses 
A minimalist ethnography about Montana sheephearders, Sweetgrass is a close-up study of their fading relationship with the American wilderness. It reminded me of...
ideas 
Mindwalk 
This 1990 feature film directed by Bernt Amadeus Capra, based in turn on the book The Turning Point by his brother Fritjof Capra, is a fascinating and mind-altering...
ideas