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10 million tons of plastic are dumped into oceans annually, more than a truck load every minute. Vitra Design Museum brings these topics into focus.

Before the 1920s, stockings, if worn, were worn for warmth. In the 1920s, as hemlines of dresses rose, people began to wear stockings to cover the exposed legs. These stockings were sheer, first made of silk or rayon (then known as "artificial silk"), and after 1940 of nylon. The introduction

The United Nations cite climate change as the defining crisis of our time. What can design do to help? 2022s must-see shows explore this question.

African Americans must learn the truth about socialism that they may preserve their culture, get rid of poverty, ignorance and disease, and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of the free and the home of the brave. — W.E.B DuBois The Message is the Truth! […]

Photo: Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images The Associated Press has received an enormous amount of criticism, including from its own staffers, for firing Emily Wilder, 22, after hiring her as a news associate just 17 days before. According to AP, Wilder was let go for “violations of AP’s social media policy.” AP’s action was clearly in response to a right-wing pressure campaign targeting Wilder for her activism in college supporting Palestinian...

(Photo by Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) A magnificent ongoing act of defiance against the forces of nature, the Golden Gate Bridge symbolizes the scope and fragility of American greatness. I grew up near the bridge, commuting across it every day when I was in high school. My father, who drove me, called it the most spectacular commute in the world. I once suspected him of hyperbole, but passing years and travels taught me otherwise. No bridge is as elegant as the...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. There’s nothing “ironic” about Alanis Morissette’s new video covering John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over”). Paying homage to Lennon’s 1971 recording with the Plastic Ono Band and to Yoko Ono as well, the three-minute video depicts Morissette in a “bed-in” with her family while at the same time celebrating the holidays in this most difficult of years. Tru...

bridge, which turns 75 years old later this year. after all, it was built before most of they will were even born and although its younger sister, the golden gate might get more otension, its a worse horse, making it one of the three busiest bridges in the entire world. as kutvs george watson tells us from this report in 1986 that was prepared for its 50th anniversary. the bay bridge is an engineering marvel, built at a time of financial turmoil and pioneering construction techniques. ...