In an all-out effort to clean up the city’s streets, San Francisco’s public works department inaugurated operation scrub-down. Three times a day, city workers move through a 30-block area, cleaning the pavement with high-pressure hoses, rousting squatters and taking away shopping carts filled with refuse and personal belongings. Operation scrub down is the brainchild of […] Read more

The Maya, an ancient South American culture, predicted that time would end in a violent apocalypse on December 21, 2012. They created an elaborate astronomical calendar called “The Long Count,” which stops abruptly in 2012 […] Read more

The Maya, an ancient South American culture, predicted that time would end in a violent apocalypse on December 21, 2012. They created an elaborate astronomical calendar called “The Long Count,” which stops abruptly in 2012. This date, which is also the winter equinox, coincides with an incredibly rare galactic alignment that happens once every 26,000 […] Read more

The 2013 Heisman Trophy race promises to field a group of dual-threat quarterbacks that have displayed the ability to impact the game with their tremendous passing and rushing skills. The trend of all-purpose quarterbacks dominating the Heisman chase continued in 2012, as Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel captured college football’s top individual award. Heisman voters have […] Read more

This may look like the front of a vending machine. In fact, to make a purchase, all you do is dial a code and a robot sales clerk does the rest. Instead of just sodas or crackers, this machine offers more than five hundred items – like panty hose, shampoos, lotions, pacifiers, tooth paste, batteries […] Read more

In this world, there is real evil. In the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places. Thee are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Between the world we see and the things we fear. There are doors. When they are opened. Nightmares become reality […] Read more

A Haunting title In this world, there is real evil. In the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places. These are the true stories o the innocent and the unimaginable. Between the world we see and the things we fear. There are doors. When they are opened. Nightmares become reality […] Read more

Something happend to Korean humility on the country’s journey from rags to riches–it got lost.Whatever happened to the generations-old Korean tradition of making do with less, the result of the 35 year Japanese occupation and having to rebuild from the ashes of war?  It was replaced by a penchant for extravagance.Seoul’s M youngdong is the shopper […] Read more

Every moment has a story. And every story matters The first men painted stories on stone walls, the ancient Egyptians chose the chisel instead. The Incans told story with dances and fire, aborigines told it with star and spear. Stories are at the very essence of human life. They count the breaths of every sunrise, […] Read more