Building without borders
Though the “sans frontières” tag is most famously linked to the organization that in english is known as Doctors without Borders, its adoption by architects indicates that professional distinctions are no bar to the spread of its international and humanitarian…
Low into high, but not high into low
The global success of Japanese companies can be measured by the recitation of familiar names: Toyota, Hitachi, Honda, Nissan, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba. These seven are among the world’s one hundred largest corporations, and the latest Fortune Global 500 has 64…
Inventing things just to throw us
For many fans of independent cinema, Aaron Hillis’s GreenCine Daily is a must-read blog, combining festival reports, interviews, and well-written posts about original films and the people who make them. Interestingly, Hillis is also a partner in Benten Films, a…
Seeking full contact
Our relationship with machines (and with computers, their less brawny cousins) gets closer with every passing year, and for some decades now we have been coming to terms with the idea that we may one day develop emotional relationships with…
Scrawls, corrections, and crossed-out words
Cynthia Haven, on her enjoyable literary blog The Book Haven, recounts a brief telephone encounter with Julia Hartwig, a poet of prominence in her native Poland still too little known in the English-speaking world. It Will Return, Hartwig’s newest book…
A forgotten path to peace?
Speaking to the UN General Assembly today, President Obama reaffirmed his country’s commitment to what has become over time the world’s only strategy for achieving peace in the Middle East: “Last year, I pledged my best efforts to support the…
