Month: August 2014
There were some pretty strange creatures hanging out in ancient oceans around the Cambrian explosion, but this worm with legs is the creepiest. Paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, who discovered the unnerving creature’s fossils in the Canadian section of the Rocky Mountains in 1977, was so confounded by its unlikely shape he named the species Hallucigenia. Until now, scientists were […]
A heated backyard dispute between two neighbors in Morningside Heights led to the arrest of an 82-year-old woman for graffiti. After repeatedly accusing her neighbors of building a fence on her land, Sylvia Kordower-Zetlin tagged it with her address. The owners of the fence happen to be Arlo Devlin-Brown, the recently appointed Public Corruption Unit chief and his wife Daniela Kempf. “We have […]
Andy Henriquez died in his solitary confinement cell from a torn aorta, in severe pain, while guards ignored his and other inmates’ cries for help, DNAinfo reports. After a shocking report detailing institutionalized abuse, rights violations, a “culture of violence” and frequent medical emergencies experienced by young inmates at Rikers Island, other cases of systemic corruption are being brought to light, […]
The number of arrests for NYC subway fare evasion has increased 69% between 2008 and 2013, and is still growing, according to the Daily News. An arm of the NYPD’s questionable “broken windows” strategy for preventing higher level crimes by targeting minor offenses, fare beating has become one of the leading causes of arrest that leads to […]
Belle, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It was at 11:33PM local time when the woman I call my ‘Ferguson fixer’ called my cell phone. Roberta, a mainstay here, had been helping me the last few days in this town, giving me a lift, pointing out people I should know, telling me about the politics, tipping me off when something may be […]
Brooklyn-born artist Adam Dare at the “21st Precinct.” (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Sure, Google Glasses and Oculus Rifts are cool, but when was the last time you played music off a postage stamp? In 1972, that was possible thanks to these “talking stamps” from Bhutan, which were sticky on one side, with a playable record on the other side. They are still legal for postage use today, but […]
Scientists have known for a long time that the first several billion years of Earth’s existence was a harsh and turbulent time for our planet. Now, Stanford University’s Donald Lowe has released research showing that bad times lasted longer than we previously realized: Lowe and his colleagues have spent 40 years studying a patch of ancient […]
A severe storm descended on Wellington, New Zealand this week. With one swift strike of lightning, Phil Price’s public artwork Zephyromete (2004) was incinerated. Before the storm, the pointy steel, carbon fiber, epoxy and concrete sculpture stood 108 feet tall, going “sup bro” at the sky. Now it is all split and burnt and broken. The piece was commissioned by […]
