Wes Phillips

New York restaurants organized by subway stop. I've been waiting for this since I moved here. Now, if it only included customer ratings . . . .

Take an F1 track and race a Fiat, Ferrari 360 Modena, and an F1 car for one lap. Who wins? Nah, let's make it interesting: Give the Fiat a 30-second head start over the Ferrari and don't even start the F1 until one minute and twenty-one seconds have passed. Yeah, same result, but a lot more interesting this way.

Great photo essay on the growth of Hummingbirds from eggs to fully grown—and leaving the nest.

Interesting collection of images from Cornell's division of rare and manuscript collections.

According to researchers at the University of Illinois, if you drop food on hardwood or tile floors and pick it up within five seconds, it probably <I>is</I> safe to eat.That's because it takes at least that long for germs to devour dropped dry food. It takes wet food less time to become contaminated&mdash;and if you drop food onto carpet, all bets are off. "That's an entirely different story and we haven't done that study yet."

But it's a step in the right direction.

<I>Living In Stereo</I> posts Dave Marsh's 1983 must-read about Florence Thompson, the subject of Dorothea Lange's harrowing FSA photo portrait. It's a great read&mdash;and add <I>LIS</I> to my daily rounds of the 'Net.