Culture Just the Tip: Documenting San Francisco's (undeniably phallic) Salesforce Tower Rusty Blazenhoff

tall buildings Photo of four guys standing on spire of LA's tallest building Mark Frauenfelder

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

travel My life on the road: Marrakesh Seamus Bellamy

architecture Tall buildings with their lying spires removed Rob Beschizza

late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow

Disney See behind the scenes of Disneyland's massive holiday decor system Rusty Blazenhoff

videos How to reengineer our systems to address climate change's refugee crisis and create new, high-density cities on demand Cory Doctorow

geography New Delhi's garbage mountain Rob Beschizza

Science How the Apollo 11 rocket was projected onto the Washington Monument David Pescovitz

uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow

Safety Two years after the Grenfell fire, survivors project warnings on similar tower blocks Rob Beschizza

uk On Grenfell's second anniversary, 60,000 Britons are still living in firetraps clad in the same deadly, decorative materials Cory Doctorow

makers Thinking back on the special magic of Make: and Maker Faire Gareth Branwyn

Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

Technology Plants that glow could illuminate tomorrow's buildings David Pescovitz

security After elderly tenant was locked in his apartment by his landlord's stupid "smart lock," tenants win right to use actual keys to enter their homes Cory Doctorow

News Mass shooting at UNC Charlotte leaves 2 killed, 4 injured [DEVELOPING] Xeni Jardin

class war India's e-waste recycling "markets" are toxic nightmares filled with child laborers Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism How a millionaire slumlord got sweetheart government deals to maintain armed forces housing and then left them to rot Cory Doctorow