It was the greatest art theft in history: 650K works looted from Europe by the Nazis, many of which were never recovered. But last November the world learned that German authorities had found a trove of 1280 paintings, drawings, and prints worth more than $1B in the Munich apartment of a haunted white-haired recluse.
Month: March 2014
Cosmos on molecules
episode 2 has a much better script than episode 1. amazing.
Skippy Street Magic
Netflix comes clean
i don’t quite understand the sequence of events here: netflix pays the protection money, and now they’re going public about it?
Detroit special economic zone
Besides paying a flat 5% tax on income and corporate revenues, areas designated Economic Freedom Zones would carry no capital gains taxes, see reduced payroll taxes and be suspended from meeting certain environmental protection regulations, among other changes.
special economic zones for areas hardest hit. why not? if he is right, something good will come of it, if he is wrong, we can say shut it libertarians. win-win.
Losing a plane in 2014
all this endless nattering about “flight 370” makes you wonder what the us military really knows. i’d be shocked if they didn’t have the capability to track any object of that size anywhere in the world, but won’t reveal it to tip others off. just consider the commercially available data from skybox. military hardware is typically a few orders of magnitude more advanced.
either way, this will be one of the last times we lose track of something of that size. it’s an embarrassment, really, size of the ocean notwithstanding.
Bushwick Collective
there is lots of new great graffiti in bushwick, as part of the collective. more
East River Blueway
East River Blueway is taking shape. there are new piers, a beach, and more esplanade opening this summer. on a related note, the floating swimming pool on the brooklyn side is making progress too and should be operational by summer 2016.
Android Popup Spam
How do I destroy this nonsense? Is there an ad blocker for android?
The Cost of Aging Infrastructure
Our ancestors were bold and industrious. They built a significant portion of our energy and road infrastructure more than 50 years ago. It would be almost impossible to build that system today. Could we build the Hoover Dam today? We have the technology. We seem to lack the will.
If America does not act, it will have the infrastructure of a third-world country within a few decades.
it doesn’t already?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 