boring bricks: Elon Musk tunneling operation to sell interlocking building materials made out of excavated dirt
elevation: a documentary from architecture magazine Dezeen on how drones will change urban dwellingwhiter-than-white: chemists engineer a ultra-white non-toxic coating based on the scales of a ghostly scarab, which could make painting roofs and roads white environmentally sensible
pulp fiction: a digital archive of over eleven thousand vintage fantasy, science-fiction and true crime magazines
the fourth plinth: Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz recreates the winged bull-human chimera that guarded the ancient city of Nineveh destroyed by ISIS to be showcased in Trafalgar Square, via the always brilliant Nag on the Lake