Photographer Louie Palu started talking about the photos he had been making of the underground metal scene in D.C. after we discovered we had a mutual interest in several heavy bands.
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I have always been a fan of Palu’s off-the-cuff, slightly chaotic, black-and-white photos and when he told me he had been photographing the D.C. scene and had amassed a hefty archive of work about it, I was immediately interested in publishing the work. Read More...
If you’re going to start standing up at your desk at work, don’t kid yourself: You’re going to attract attention.
Fortunately, I have my co-worker Monica.
When we started this little experiment six months ago, we found ourselves fielding lots of questions.“Why are you standing?” some passing writer or editor would stop and ask us, as we stood like sentries along one of the main newsroom thoroughfares.
“Because we don’t want to die! Read More...
The discovery of penicillin, one of the world’s first antibiotics, marks a true turning point in human history — when doctors finally had a tool that could completely cure their patients of deadly infectious diseases.
Many school children can recite the basics. Penicillin was discovered in London in September of 1928. As the story goes, Dr. Alexander Fleming, the bacteriologist on duty at St. Mary’s Hospital, returned from a summer vacation in Scotland to find a messy lab bench and a good deal more. Read More...