Cheap, green, and secure
From Nerve, how Buckminster Fuller combined environmentalism with high design. Thom Mayne's U.S. Federal Building: Can the iconoclastic architect design a structure that's cheap, green, and secure? A review of The Judicious Eye: Architecture against the Other Arts by Joseph Rykwert. From TLS, a review of The Creationists: From scientific creationism to Intelligent Design by Ronald Numbers; Amis & Amis: The family firm produced disparate results, but is either writer any good? From First Principles, a special four-part symposium on localism and cosmopolitanism (and part 2 and part 3 and part 4). From Radar, how music legend Genesis P-Orridge and his wife became one through plastic surgery. Veganism is Murder: If God didn't want us to eat cows, he wouldn’t have made them out of steak. Children of God: The young women — willing wives? abuse victims? — of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Is it time to give up on therapeutic cloning? An interview with Ian Wilmut. Toward a Type 1 civilization: Along with energy policy, political and economic systems must also evolve. Deep in the radioactive bowels of the smashed Chernobyl reactor, a strange new lifeform is blooming. From IHE, newspapers keep abandoning any responsibility toward books; Scott McLemee looks back at print culture.
