The Beauty of Baroque with Toronto’s Opera Atelier
30 years of dressing performance.
With their Opera Atelier, a period opera and ballet company, Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg are a case study in living your art.
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On the Champagne Trail: Moët & Chandon in Épernay, France
150 years of Impérial.
Founded in 1743, Moët & Chandon is one of the oldest champagne houses. This year marks the 150th birthday of Impérial, Moët’s flagship blend.
The Future of 3-D Printed Food
Atoma and the science of flavour.
The Atoma collection of 3-D printed flavour molecules suggests a future in which we could make a salad that would satisfy us the way a burger does.
An Innovative Spanish Language Retreat in Mexico City
Fluenz Spanish Immersion.
Accelerated, bespoke, and ideal for all levels, Fluenz accepts only 10 students per week-long session.
High Tech, Higher Purpose
The future of tech goes beyond the algorithm.
Earlier this year, a group of 21 prominent universities united to form the Public Interest Technology University Network, a group putting forward a collaborative, open-source approach that views high tech through the lens of social, ethical, legal, and public policy implications.
The First Watch on the Moon: the Omega Speedmaster
A history of the Moonwatch.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: The moon is such a familiar sight we often don’t give it a second glance. Yet it was not that long ago that Omega and the rest of the world looked to the moon.
The Universal Disdain for Comic Sans
Appreciating the not-so-hidden language of typography.
Understanding the woefully inartistic and ridiculously misused typeface: Comic Sans.
An Era of De-cycling
Facing the consequences of our consumption.
For years, recycling in the Western world has been based on the idea that we can simply stuff our dirty plastic, obsolete electronics, and broken toys into a shipping container, and send it to the other side of the world. Until now.
Google Street View in Canada’s North
Northern exposure.
Google loans its iconic 360-degree trekker camera to Parks Canada as part of an ongoing push to bring the whole country to Street View.
