INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
A Penn Vet researcher creates a system for getting pigs out of crates — and is working to re-engineer a better pig to live in it. — Fast Company (Jan. 17, 2015)
How drones could help agricultural production and decrease pesticide use, if the FAA would allow surveillance by unmanned aerial vehicles. — SmartPlanet.com (June 2, 2014)
Seattle looks at using waste heat from data centers to warm two neighborhoods. — Next City (Jan. 23, 2014)
Reading, Pa., named the most impoverished city in the U.S. in 2011, tries to encourage people to get technical degrees. — Next City (Sept. 27, 2013)
Inventors and artists play with high-tech toys at NextFab, a West Philly nerd gym. — Philadelphia City Paper (April 14, 2011)
MIT’s Media Lab creates a virtual marketplace for its virtual works of art. — The Boston Globe (July 30, 2006)
CURIOSITIES PAST AND PRESENT
On the Philadelphia waterfront in the late 19th century, an industrial plant made fertilizer from piles and piles of bones. — Hidden City Philly (March 27, 2015)
In the mid-20th century, a Philly man known as “the Radium Hound” tried to keep tabs on the radioactive element, but today others are still mopping it up. — The Magazine (Feb. 27, 2014)
A Q&A with the director of the documentary American Stag about his dredging up dirty movies from America’s basement. — Nerve.com (January 2007)
A coastal Connecticut town is home to a struggling puppet theater and its extremely rare Sicilian marionettes. — The New York Times (Jan. 23, 2005)
ARTS AND TRAVEL
A feature about one-time graffiti artist Steve Powers and his plan to make hand-painted free signs for business owners along a commercial corridor in Philadelphia. — Philadelphia City Paper (Jan. 17, 2013)
Travel story about a West Virginia island that was the site of mysterious 19th-century political scheming. — The Washington Post (Aug. 9, 2009)
The technical challenges posed by a Philip Glass opera. — Wired.com (January 2007)
An MIT professor catalogues American mosque architecture and what it says about the American Muslim community. — The Boston Globe (Aug. 15, 2004)
A visit to a camel market outside of Cairo. — South Florida Sun-Sentinel (March 23, 2003)
Theresa Everline 