Planet-38.com: In Passing

Yellow Is the New Green

What does a urine diversion toilet have to teach us all? A lot. The device can help us save energy, water, the oceans, and cheaply fertilize fields. (Interesting reading)

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In New York, Broadway as Great Walk Way

The new traffic rules would bar vehicles from Broadway at public plazas in Times Square and Herald Square.

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Live Hard, Create Compulsively, Die Young

The Museum of Modern Art offers an excellent retrospective of Martin Kippenberger’s messy and raucous works.

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Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst

The day before a second “miraculous” airplane crash, this time in Amsterdam, testimony from a U.S. air safety expert pinpoints some keys to staying alive. (good to know.)

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Where Did I Put That First Paragraph?

A mother accepts memory loss as a normal byproduct of aging, but hates the midlife experience of misplacing things and forgetting the details of her formative years. (We’re never going to grow up or get old…wait…what was it we were talking about again?)

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Here Comes The Gloom by Amy Alkon

…Miserable single father seeks partner. Undercapitalized, lonely, angry, self-pitying, and desperate. Oh yeah, and enjoys long walks on the beach…(sometimes harsh, but always on the money advice)

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For a New Generation, Kimchi Goes With Tacos

AS the sun begins to sink behind the Santa Monica Mountains and the northbound traffic thickens on the 405 freeway, the hungry refresh their browsers.
After obsessively checking the Twitter postings of the Korean taco maker to see where the truck will park next, they begin lining up – throngs of college students, club habitués, couples on dates

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In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth

As money tightens, the humanities may increasingly return to being what they were at the beginning of the last century, when only a minuscule portion of the population attended college: namely, the province of the wealthy.

That may be unfortunate but inevitable, Mr. Kronman said. The essence of a humanities education — reading the great literary and philosophical works and coming “to grips with the question of what living is for” — may become “a great luxury that many cannot afford.”

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They Stand When Called Upon, and When Not

A new adjustable-height school desk that allows students to stand or sit is gaining popularity.

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World’s craziest restaurants

For centuries, restaurants have been making the same fiscal error time and time again: serving delicious food at reasonable prices. Truly a recipe for fiduciary disaster. Here at least are ten restaurants that understand, to truly make a profit in the food business!

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