Sep 2nd, 2009 at 2:00PM: One of the most entertaining instruments in the photographer's toolbox is the wide angle lens, a massive creature full of glass, angles and depth. Contrary to traditional optics, wide angle lenses broaden the field of view available to the camera, resulting in massive, sprawling images from one single shot. It's also got the effect of stretching anything at the periphery of the image, so often it ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Zurich through the wide angle lens
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 2:00PM: One of the most entertaining instruments in the photographer's toolbox is the wide angle lens, a massive creature full of glass, angles and depth. Contrary to traditional optics, wide angle lenses broaden the field of view available to the camera, resulting in massive, sprawling images from one single shot. It's also got the effect of stretching anything at the periphery of the image, so often it ...Age old question of chicken or beef ends up in Court of Appeals
Mar 7th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Chicken or beef? It's the question almost everyone on an International flight will end up hearing at one point (unless of course you are flying up front, where you'll probably get more choices). Millions of people answer this question every year, and are presented with a meal that is somehow meant to represent their choice. On an American Airlines flight from Zurich to New York several years ...Four masterpieces worth $163 million stolen in Zurich
Feb 12th, 2008 at 8:00AM: If you've ever been to Zurich, Switzerland you may have made a visit to the Emile Bürhle Foundation, whose collection is considered to be the biggest privately owned collection of French impressionists worldwide. On Sunday three thieves made that same visit and took off with four important paintings by van Gogh, Degas, Monet and Cézanne. Their total value is estimated at $163 million, ...The World's Most Expensive Cities
Jun 18th, 2007 at 11:30AM: Mercer, a human resource consulting company, has compiled a list of the most expensive cities in the world based on a cost of living survey which "measures the comparative cost of over 200 items" in each city. Two years in a row Moscow has topped the list, followed by London, Seoul, and Tokyo. Here's the top 10:
Moscow
London
Seoul
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Copenhagen
Geneva
Osaka
...The World's Longest Tunnels
Jun 18th, 2007 at 7:00AM: The Gotthard Base Tunnel (map), a railway tunnel in Switzerland, isn't complete yet, but in 2015 -- after 22 years of construction -- it will be the longest transportation tunnel in the world, running 35 miles through the Swiss Alps. It will eventually cut the travel time between Zürich and Milan from 3.5 hours to 2.5. Four tunnel boring machines are working the job: "2 southbound from Amsteg ...
