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Toyo Ito's Biggest Building: A Stadium That's Secretly a Solar Power Plant
2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito began his career with luminous and transparent houses in his native Japan. But a sports stadium put him on the map.
Rookie Claire Vaye Watkins Topples Heavyweight Junot Diaz in Story Prize Stunner
In a stunning upset of red-hot author Junot Diaz, Claire Vaye Watkins took home The Story Prize, the Stanley Cup of short-fiction prizes.
Anticipating Super Bowl Ads Is Still A Thing
And now they're on the internet right here to enjoy sans football. Everyone wins.
Baseball Pitchers Might Soon Wear Helmets
Big league pitchers will finally get some head protection from line drives next season with an innovative skull cap.
Are Pakistan's Other Drones the Future of Extreme-Sport Cinema?
In a place that's become synonymous with all the moral, ethical, legal, and political quandaries posed by the robo-lords of the new "bugsplat" warfare, the thought of insect-like drones buzzing over northern Pakistan may not immediately take on celeb…
How NBC's Olympics Coverage Won Primetime: An Interview with Emmy Award-Winning Director Brad Garfield
For all the grief NBC has received for its coverage this Olympics, London 2012 is looking like it will be a roaring success for the old peacock. Ratings for this go-round are beating ratings from Beijing, which has led the network to predict it might…
This Facebook Flipbook Is Like a Manual GIF, But Better
Last night, Corinthians Paulista, a soccer team from São Paulo that I _just happen_ to have a tattoo for, won the semifinal round of the Copa Libertadores, the South American club soccer championship. If none of that made any sense, I apologize; suff…