This month marks the fifth anniversary of the landing of NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars – happy birthday.
What if there was an election and no one ran for office?
Each year, on the first Sunday in October, Baha’is in the United States elect delegates to their National Convention, held in the following April, during which the nine-member National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States is elected. My niece Niku (sporting her new braces), my nephew Kent and their friend invite their […]
A Method Behind a Madness
I came across this video not too long ago: Joshua Prince-Ramus – of RE X and formerly of OMA – briefly describes his theory of architecture at the 2006 TED Conference. It’s always difficult for me to explain to my friends who are not architects why architecture matters or what makes good architecture. While architecture […]
The Smell Of Architecture
One of my architecture professors at the University of Houston is leaving the school and I went by today to pick up a notebook of mine that she had kept. I hadn’t been back in the building for a couple of years. It was eerily quite and void of people one week before the first […]
Leila
No one forgets a hug
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Entertainment Scientists Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013
I wanna dance
SuperHero
Tim Russert passed away on Friday. Alone among his peers, Russert would not let anyone get away with anything but the truth. I used to watch “Meet the Press” with my dad on weekend visits home – Russert was his favorite interviewer. After my father’s passing a few years ago, Sunday mornings with Tim were […]
the City 