Simone Davalos

The tentacular Heather Knight of Marilyn Monrobot, JPL, Carnegie-Mellon, RoboGames, etc, etc, etc, has hatched another brilliant scheme for Robot World Domination – what we…

photo by Andria Lo A delicate dance between spectator and athlete, a mediation on the properties of the pendulum, and unabashed grin-making installation art piece,…

The Flaming Lotus Girls, makers of fine pyrotechnic arts and entertainments to tickle the ganglia and satisfy the limbic hind-brain, are presenting their brand new…

photo by Scott Beale Many of you may be familiar with Ace Junkyard from the pages of this blog. Or perhaps, you know of Ace…

(To donate to the Save Defenestration fund, go here. S’ cool, we’ll wait for you to come back.) Perched on the corner of Sixth and…

I have started and stopped this article two or three times over this last year, but the sad moment, like most other sad moments, has…

photo via Caltrans As pretty much everyone who has encountered any Bay Area media in the last month or so knows, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay…

The Wisconsin Historical Society has a great archive of vintage circus photos, a visit from the ghosts of circus past: Trapeze artist Erma Ward by…

The National Museum of Health and Medicine (otherwise known as the Army Medical Museum) has a gorgeous Flickr stream filled with enough medical curiosities, technologies,…