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Impossibly Adorable Footage Shows an Elephant Turning a Hose Into a DIY Shower

This clever elephant didn’t just figure out how to turn a hose into a shower—she also had to deal with a mischievous friend.

Biology Harri Weber Nov 12

Berlin’s Living Lab Project Helps CO2 Addicts Cut Back

We’re all fossil fuel junkies, and the dangerous byproduct of our habit—CO2—is killing the planet. We need to quit, but since we’re unlikely to go cold turkey, it’s probably time for an intervention. In Berlin, such an effort is underway with a year-long living lab experiment. One hundred households are aiming to cut their carbon…

Conservation Bob Berwyn Mar 16

Autonomous Brakes May Have Stopped Berlin Truck Attacker from Killing More

Earlier this month, 12 people were killed and dozens more were injured when an attacker drove a stolen truck through a crowded Christmas market in Berlin. If it hadn’t been for an automatic brake system mandated by European Union rules, however, last week’s tragedy could have been even worse. https://jezebel.com/nine-dead-and-50-wounded-after-truck-crashes-into-berli-1790288126 According German media, investigators say…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 28

Berlin’s Oddest Buildings Look Unreal Out of Context

In the years after World War II, Berlin saw a number of new skyscrapers erected to provide the burgeoning middle class with affordable housing. Even though many were designed by famous architects they were eventually viewed as concrete monsters and moldered in disuse, until recently. In a recent series, 36-year-old photographer Malte Brandenburg sought to…

Sploid Avery Ellis Mar 14

Video: These Parkour Bike Tricks Are Super Wild

There’s a lot of good ways to experience a city. You can walk and enjoy the outdoors but that takes a bit of time. You could ride any above ground public transportation system but that traps you inside. You could drive a car but that makes you miss out on things as you focus on…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 20

The Four-Ton Head of a Lenin Statue Was Dug Up In Berlin Today

Berlin is a city that’s been dramatically shaped by the recent past, where history is a living part of the urban fabric—or in some cases, rests just below its surface. When the Berlin Wall fell in the 1989, it marked the beginning of a decades-long process that saw the dismantling of many Soviet monuments around…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 10

Good morning, Berlin

Berlin is not only one of the most vibrant cities in Europe—thanks to its food, clubs, cultural life, and the other thousand things you can do there. The city itself is unique. Its architecture is stunning and full of contrasts, a constant reminder of the clash between communism and capitalism—and their imperialism. Take a virtual…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jan 27

One Man’s Quest To Surf Berlin

Berlin lies hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. But, that didn’t stop one determined man from discovering a rare local break, then teaching himself to surf it. This is his story. Ira Mowen is an American artist living in the German city. He’s creating a documentary film about his experience finding and eventually surfing…

Tech News Wes Siler Dec 18

25 Years After the Wall Fell, Berlin Is a Haven for Cyber Rebellion

It’s been exactly 25 years since the wall came down and Berlin—a city that was once the epicenter of a worldwide ideological struggle—took its first, daunting steps toward reunification. Despite all odds, the graft took. And today the scar the wall left is so faint that unless you know what to look for, it’s practically…

Tech News William Herkewitz Nov 9

These Sun-Tracking Devices Pipe Real Sunlight Into Shadowy Buildings

It’s a necessary evil of designing in cities: Only the tallest or most perfectly situated buildings get much sunlight. A company called Sun Central thinks it has a solution—in the form of an autonomous sun-tracking mechanism that sucks up sunlight and pipes it into dark buildings. Today in Berlin, the California- and British Columbia-based startup…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 27

Berlin’s Creepiest Abandoned Amusement Park Burned Down Over the Weekend

Sorry, fans of ruin porn, creators of would-be Saw-sequels, and demented Walt Disney wannabes: The famous abandoned amusement park in Berlin named Spreepark wasdestroyed by two separate fires over the weekend. Arson is suspected. Over a decade after it was closed, the dilapidated park was put up for sale this spring and then taken over…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 12

Explore an 80-Room Nazi Bunker Converted Into a Home and Gallery

It takes a very specific kind of sensibility to live in the ruins of monstrous regime, but art collectors Karen and Christian Boros have it. The couple and their kids live in a bunker with six-foot-thick concrete walls, originally built to hold 3,000 people during air raids in Berlin, in 1942. This is theBoros Residence,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 11

A robot started writing a Torah today. It will finish in 3 months.

A robot started writing a Torah today at Berlin’s Jewish Museum. It’s part of an art exhibition that will see the robot finish its work — 304,805 Hebrew letters later — in 3 months. The exhibit will be up until January 2015. From the Associated Press: The Torah-writing robot was developed by the German artists’…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 10

E. Coli and Crossing Signals: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Berlin’s “walking men” found at every crosswalk are too manly for some local feminists. And Portland has yet another issue with water contamination. It’s What’s Ruining Our Cities! A crossing signal is ruining Berlin The little “walking man” who greets pedestrians at Berlin crosswalks has become a beloved icon of the German city. But feminists…

Tech News Alissa Walker May 23

World’s Slowest Surveillance Cams To Produce a Single Image in 100 Years

It’s a little disconcerting to know how many of our day-to-day movements are being recorded in real time, what with CCTV, security cams, and smartphone wielding strangers. And while Google Streetview’s taking short-term before-and-after shots of our cities, one artist wants to capture a city’s evolution over a hundred years in a series of extra-extra-extra-long…

Tech News Jordan Kushins May 9

Berlin Is Retiming Some Of Its Street Signals For Cyclists

All over the world, we’re seeing cities add bike lanes, bike paths, bike parking, bike sharing—but the way you know cities are really getting serious is when they start reprogramming their signals for cyclists instead of cars. In Berlin, a new pilot project is doing exactly that. Die grüne Welle or “The Green Wave” is…

Tech News Alissa Walker Apr 22

Berlin Is Threatened From Below By Its Rising Water Table

While the American West stumbles forward into an already dangerous drought—and it’s barely even summer—Berliners are simply not using enough water. This means that the city’s water table is now on the rise, and it’s beginning to threaten the city’s buildings from below. Some basements have already been affected. As The Economist explains, “Since the…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh Apr 13

Every City Should Have This Ingenious “Library of Things”

It’s happened to us all. You’re planning for some big project and suddenly you’re in need of a power drill… Or kitchen stand mixer… Or hiking gear. Now, you could just shell out for it, but when are you going to use it again? Enter Leila, a genius little “borrowing shop” in Berlin that saves…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Mar 18

Take a Tour Through the Mother of All Airports

In a city of controversial historic buildings, Berlin’s massive Tempelhof Airport is one of the most embattled. This aging, elegant behemoth served as a hub for the Nazis and, later, for the Berlin Air Lift. Now, it’s the focus of major development plans—and PBS just got a look inside. In a new video we get…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 11

Berlin Can’t Finish Its Reunification Memorial On Time Because of Bats

It took Berliners years to agree upon a design for a memorial to the reunification of East and West—but now that the project is underway, an unexpected hurdle is slowing it down: Bats. Lots of them. The Monument to Freedom and Unity, which was designed by architects Milla & Partner and Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 7

Berlin

Impossibly Adorable Footage Shows an Elephant Turning a Hose Into a DIY Shower

Berlin’s Living Lab Project Helps CO2 Addicts Cut Back

Autonomous Brakes May Have Stopped Berlin Truck Attacker from Killing More

Berlin’s Oddest Buildings Look Unreal Out of Context

Video: These Parkour Bike Tricks Are Super Wild

The Four-Ton Head of a Lenin Statue Was Dug Up In Berlin Today

Good morning, Berlin

One Man’s Quest To Surf Berlin

25 Years After the Wall Fell, Berlin Is a Haven for Cyber Rebellion

These Sun-Tracking Devices Pipe Real Sunlight Into Shadowy Buildings

Berlin’s Creepiest Abandoned Amusement Park Burned Down Over the Weekend

Explore an 80-Room Nazi Bunker Converted Into a Home and Gallery

A robot started writing a Torah today. It will finish in 3 months.

E. Coli and Crossing Signals: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

World’s Slowest Surveillance Cams To Produce a Single Image in 100 Years

Berlin Is Retiming Some Of Its Street Signals For Cyclists

Berlin Is Threatened From Below By Its Rising Water Table

Every City Should Have This Ingenious “Library of Things”

Take a Tour Through the Mother of All Airports

Berlin Can’t Finish Its Reunification Memorial On Time Because of Bats

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