User:Nick carson/interesting articles

This is just an incomplete list of totally random articles that I've found interesting at some stage: (needs reorganising)

Awsum Stuff

 * Common land
 * Guerrilla gardening
 * Alternative culture
 * Independent music
 * Indie music scenes
 * Musical collective
 * DIY culture
 * DIY ethic
 * Punk ideologies
 * Lo-fi music
 * Cassette culture
 * Free school
 * Unschooling
 * Gift economy
 * Street art
 * Tax resistance

Architecture & Building

 * Agora
 * Housing in Japan
 * Minka

Space

 * Alcubierre drive
 * Apollo 8
 * Astrophysics
 * Black Hole
 * Cydonia (Mars)
 * Dark matter
 * Doomsday event
 * Eta Carinae
 * Hubble Deep Field
 * Hubble Ultra Deep Field
 * Jupiter
 * Light
 * Radio source SHGb02+14a
 * Saturn
 * Spacetime
 * String Theory
 * Supernova
 * Theory of everything
 * Unsolved problems in physics

Geography

 * Chicxulub Crater
 * Jerusalem
 * Mount Augustus
 * Mount Warning (Tweed Volcano)
 * Palestinian state
 * Proposals for a Palestinian state
 * Silverpit crater
 * Tel Aviv

People

 * Abbie Hoffman
 * Al Gore
 * Aleksander Wolszczan
 * Andrew Denton
 * Bob Brown
 * Charles Darwin
 * Desmond Morris & Congo
 * Don Chipp
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Gunditjmara people
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * John Forbes Nash, Jr.
 * John Gorton
 * John Zorn
 * Julian Savulescu
 * Karl Marx
 * Lionel Rose
 * Malthusian catastrophe
 * Michel Foucault
 * Peter Andrews
 * Peter Newman
 * Robert Hoddle
 * Saul Alinsky
 * Ken Robinson (British author)
 * Stanford R. Ovshinsky
 * Steve Irwin
 * Steven Biko
 * Tao Te Ching
 * Tim Flannery

Psychology & Philosophy

 * Appeal to ignorance
 * Eastern Philosophy
 * Emotion
 * Epistemology
 * Feeling
 * Rationalist movement
 * Representative realism
 * Semantics

Technology

 * Compact fluorescent lamp
 * Hydrogen vehicle
 * Laser TV
 * Perpetual motion
 * Personal rapid transit
 * Rapid prototyping
 * Steganography
 * Water fuel cell

Art & Culture

 * Retro-futurism
 * Speculative fiction

Literature

 * A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, 1988
 * Cradle to Cradle - Michael Braungart & William McDonough, 2002
 * Malleus Maleficarum - Inquisitors of the Catholic Church, 1486
 * Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - R. Buckminster Fuller, 1969
 * Silent Spring - Rachel Carson, 1962
 * The Tomorrow Series - John Marsden, 1990's

Music

 * Aesthetics of music
 * Bass instrument amplification
 * Effects pedal
 * Effects unit
 * Guitar amplifier
 * Guitar effects
 * Guitar speaker
 * Guitar speaker cabinet
 * Humbucker
 * Musique concrète
 * Naked City (band)
 * Pickup (music)
 * Recording contract
 * Sound design
 * Sound recording and reproduction

General

 * Cradle to Cradle
 * Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
 * Phthalates
 * IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

Urban Design

 * Marchetti's Constant
 * Masdar City
 * Car-free movement
 * New Urbanism
 * Transit oriented development
 * Fab Tree Hab

Ecology

 * Angel Falls
 * Ecology
 * Flora of Australia
 * Taiga
 * Holocene extinction event

Groups

 * Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

Polotics & Economics

 * Arab-Israeli conflict
 * Income redistribution
 * Participatory economics
 * Principality of Hutt River
 * Progressive tax
 * property redistribution
 * Rent control
 * Social progressivism
 * Socialism
 * Socialist economics
 * Local Exchange Trading Systems

TV & Film

 * Bomb Harvest
 * Lostpedia
 * Who Killed the Electric Car?

Other

 * Yin and Yang
 * Dogtown and Z-Boys
 * Futurama (New York World's Fair)

Lists

 * List of metropolitan areas by population
 * List of nearest stars
 * Major religious groups

Photos

 * Cassiopeia
 * Shuttle docked to Mir
 * log at Curio Bay.jpg Petrified log in New Zealand
 * [File:Revised petrol use urban density.JPG Petrol usage and urban density]