Month: August 2014
According to DNAInfo, the city’s Parks Department is spritzing parks and other greenspaces with a pesticide that is known to cause cancer: The Parks Department sprays the pesticide, called Roundup, to kill weeds that harbor rats on “little-used” areas near playgrounds, officials said. The city posts warning signs for 24 hours before and after spraying. […]
Ernest Hemingway had a soft spot for six-toed cats. Even after his death, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida is teeming with fifty-five of these furry polydactyls, descended from Snowball, a horny six-toed cat given to Hemingway by a sea captain. Photographer Henry Hargreaves recently travelled to the museum, and despite his allergies, shot regal portraits of […]
While researching for her new book about the Young Lords — a radical Puerto Rican 1960’s group that turned militant — Baruch College Professor Johanna Fernandez was surprised to find that the NYPD did not have the records of the group’s surveillance. Fernandez found them all on her own. After discovering many of these documents proving […]
Facebook is currently fighting against disclosing user data — like photos, friend lists and private messages — to the authorities. Such warrants are being issued at an unprecedented rate, with nearly 400 in New York. The fight has been joined by four NY-based social media platforms — Tumblr, Kickstarter, Foursquare and Meetup, AP reports. The NYCLU and […]
Samuel, East River Ferry. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Robin Williams, the comedian who helped sell a generation’s worth of Mork & Mindy suspenders and starred in many movies, has died of an apparent suicide. He was 63-years-old. Shazbot! #93682257 / gettyimages.com #93898348 / gettyimages.com #93682694 / gettyimages.com #93765890 / gettyimages.com #93682707 / gettyimages.com #93682538 / gettyimages.com #93898298 / gettyimages.com (Illustration: Michael Weinfeld) […]
After taking on Afghanistan, Poster Boy offers some commentary on Gaza vis-à-vis another remixed subway ad for the TV drama Manhattan. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It sounds like something out of a clumsy sci-fi movie, but “rangeomorphs” — fractal-shaped organisms which evolved before plants and animals — were very real. The above digital renderings of the obscure sea dwellers were created by scientists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Simon Conway Morris. Rangeomorphs reigned in the Ediacaran era, 575 million years ago, when life was microscopic. They […]
Morbidly creative animator Lee Hardcastle has a fresh new clip for you. It’s so gory. You are about to see Bebop’s head come undone in a visceral, splattering, gurgling fashion that really pushes the visual possibilities of claymation, all in a faux lofi vignette stylized as grainy, vintage video. Look at this mess. “Blood” everywhere. (And yes, that reboot sucked.) […]
In 2002, undercover officer Mark Kennedy was transferred from the drug beat to infiltrate budding environmental protest movements in the UK. For eight existentially excruciating years, he was “Mark Stone.” He protested a dam in Iceland, got his finger broken by riot police, got some tattoos and fell in with some anarchists. He even got himself a girlfriend, […]
