The little rule in soccer that fundamentally changed the game
Kirkbrides and the architecture of madness
All the ways people try to change their community that isn’t through city planning or some kind of official process.
Learning the US Constitution through Trump tweets
Counting the dead cars in Bethel, AK
This is the UPDATED story of a curvy, kidney-shaped swimming pool born in Northern Europe that had a huge ripple effect on popular culture in Southern California and landscape architecture in Northern California, and then the world.
Design can completely change whether a five minute wait feels reasonable or completely unbearable
The meteoric rise and fall of the custom ringtone
The walls in Northern Ireland meant to separate the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods
Using a massive scale model of the city of San Francisco built in the 1930s to tell the story of the city today
Artificial beehives had a huge impact on US agriculture
The Buddha of Oakland
Men are often the default subjects of design, which can have a huge impact on big and critical aspects of everyday life.
Vivian Le is on a mission that requires equal parts science, philosophy, and daring, in search of something that’s been hotly contested for decades: the world's largest ball of twine.
Sand is the most important solid substance in the world...and we're running out
How blind people experience literature and the long history of designing a tactile language that sometimes suffered from trying to be too universal
In Singapore, where land is scarce, it’s not unlikely for apartment buildings to be built on top of land that was graveyards not too long ago. But building on top of a graveyard has its complications.
John Green rates different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale
The Raptors are in the NBA finals and their 90s uniforms are more popular than ever
Restaurants trying to cut back on the number of employees are using new technology to order and prepare food, but the "automated" restaurant has been tried before.