Monthly Archives: September 2009

Maya Lin’s “What Is Missing?” Project Uses Lab Sound, Video

September 23, 2009 – 2:36 pm

On Thursday, Sept. 17, a new art installation by Maya Lin opened at the California Academy of Sciences. Part of a series entitled “What Is Missing?” the piece is a listening cone of bronze and reclaimed redwood, made to an oversized scale reminiscent of a fallen sequoia log. Like all of Lin’s work (most famously [...]

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Bird-Friendly Coffee Tasting at the Lab This Weekend

September 18, 2009 – 11:56 am

Not many of the things you do that are good for the planet—carrying cloth bags to the store; screwing in compact fluorescent light bulbs—can compare with the sensory abandon of a fresh-brewed cup of bird-friendly coffee. If you haven’t tasted it for yourself recently, then this weekend at the Cornell Lab is your chance. There [...]

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