Phillip Barron The Herald-Sun May 25th, 2006 DURHAM — “(The process) has enabled me to make some really wonderful connections with the people who make Durham work,” says Iona Hauser of Stewart Engineering, who has completed the design plans for a new bicycle and pedestrian bridge over 147. The new bridge, a “graceful arch, framed [...]
Some truths are hard to swallow. This one is just plain uncomfortable because of what it means for our future. Because of what it means we’re responsible for. Because of what it means we have to do. Teaching ethics classes, I’ve learned that students will resist the plain truth (even when the data spells it [...]
I don’t know about you, but I’m offended by the number of ways companies try to get me to buy something. Years ago, I sat next to a young advertising designer from the Netherlands on a flight aimed at Amsterdam. She saw that I was reading Heidegger’s Being and Time, and for just about the [...]
Phillip Barron The Herald Sun May 11th, 2006 DURHAM — The Ride of Silence on Wednesday will be the loudest statement of the year on bicycle safety and it will be spoken without a word. The Ride of Silence is a Triangle-wide event, beginning at the Triangle Life Science Center (the former EPA building) at [...]
I was talking with my mom last night about listening to music over the web, and I was telling her that I use a couple of websites to find new music. I don’t listen to the radio anymore (they just play such crap, pop stuff), so it can be hard to find new music, discover [...]