Dan McPharlin
A scale model produced by designer illustrator Dan McPharlin for Lo Recordings.
Rip Curl Canyon
The rip curl cayon was a kind of mythical location in the american west where land and water collide, far from houston’s flat drained swamps….
Making Money Hand Over FistAn oil trader demonstrates the hand signals used on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Text and graphics by Ben Schott, a contributing columnist.
Wear a condom save the Amazon
Making love might not seem like the most obvious way to save the world’s largest tropical rainforest - and combat the threat of Aids.
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Meat Beat
Two decades ago, Jack Dangers co-founded Meat Beat Manifesto, a band that delivered an explosive mashup of performance, multimedia and head-trip soundtracking that teased brains as ably as it packed dance floors.
The erotics of investing
When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such as a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.
The end of the line?An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered; worse, the growing influence of English is apparently to blame. Jon Henley reports on the uncertain fate of this most subtle and misused of punctuation marks. Aida Edemariam discovers which writers love it - and which would be glad to see it disappear