In Easton, a parking meter renaissance

New 'smart' meters know when you come and go, and will tattle when you don't follow the rules. From behind the wooden checkout counter of her antique shop, brimming with trinkets of yesteryear, Jeanne Eagle peered down a line of parking meters that guard Easton's Centre Square like unforgiving soldiers who mark battles in hours and yield only to quarters.

Tiny Kushner, Tricycle Theatre, London

Tiny Kushner is a calculatedly droll name for an evening of mini-dramas by Tony Kushner. Brevity is not a virtue we tend to associate with the author of the epic Angels in America. But Tony Taccone – Kushner's long-time collaborator and the director of this vibrant, expertly performed Guthrie Theatre/ Berkeley Rep import – makes a shrewd point in the programme when he says: "I always think of ...

Researchers offer alternate theory for found skull's asymmetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new turn in the debate over explanations for the odd features of LB1 -- the specimen number of the only skull found in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores and sometimes called "the hobbit" -- is further evidence of a continued streak of misleading science regarding the development of a new species, according to researchers.

A world of opportunities

Renewables seem to be on the nose yet there are many reasons why adding them to a portfolio is a good strategy, writes David Potts.

USA Quotes .. September 5 Practice

USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski (Duke University) Have you gotten out of the past day’s two practices what you wanted?: Today we had no contact but good enthusiasm, game like preparation and we already started putting in our game plan for Angola. The guys are healthy.

Tales of the unexpected: The dark side of bedtime stories

"A terrible wrathful man, with a slow fuse burning in one end of his belly and a stick of dynamite in the other." That was how Roald Dahl described his long-term American publisher Alfred Knopf in the New York Times in 1983 – but it could easily have applied to himself.