In this episode of the Berkshire Argus podcast, Bill Shein speaks with Matt Tannenbaum, proprietor—since 1976—of The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts, and subject of the 2022 documentary, “Hello, Bookstore.” Tannenbaum recalls learning the book trade as a stock boy at the storied Gotham Book Mart in midtown Manhattan and working for a book distrib…

There’s no discussion of the economic future of the southern Berkshires that doesn’t have the cost and availability of housing at its center. Trends well underway in the last decade were accelerated by the COVID19 pandemic: The cost of houses to buy or rent has skyrocketed, fueled by an increase in properties acquired by part-time residents and oth…

Is it possible to have a thoughtful, constructive conversation about important issues, including politics, in a social media comment thread? About any issue? In 2016, Jon Rosen, fresh off his Ph.D. studies in philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, started a Facebook discussion group called Fair Game, where members engage in conversa…

When residents of Great Barrington, Massachusetts learned that a movie theater central to their community’s cultural life and a key component of their downtown economy might close for good, they quickly organized to find a way to save it. In just a few months, volunteers formed a nonprofit, raised $800,000, and purchased the theater. They’re now ma…

When news headlines refer to “the Housatonic River clean-up,” some assume that the GE-funded and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved remediation work will remove all PCB contamination and return the river to a safe, healthy state. But as Bob Jones, chair of the Select Board in the Town of Lee, Massachusetts, explains in this podcast…

With available and affordable housing remaining a top regional and national issue, last week I had a wide-ranging conversation with Patrick White, a member of the Stockbridge Select Board. White was recently re-elected overwhelmingly to his second three-year term on the board, where he has made housing proposals central. More than half of the homes…

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MARK WIGLEYIn the fifth episode of our podcast series we discuss Mark Wigley's lecture "The Human Insect: Antenna Architectures 1887-2017" at the HNI in Rotterdam, regarding the massive integration of technology in our everyday life, and the history of radio in combination with architecture since 1887. During the podcast, parts of the lecture will …

In the third episode of our podcast series, we interview artist and tutor Charlie Koolhaas about the exhibition Eye See You, showcasing the work of the Radical Cut-Up programme of the Sandberg Institute. The subject of this exhibition is The Gaze, the act of seeing and being seen, and the anxious state that comes with the awareness that we are bein…

This second episode of our podcast series explores a selection of projects from the 2018 Archiprix nominees of the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Barbara Prezelj, Iason Stathatos, Arianna Fornasiero, Paolo Turconi, and Anne van Stijn explain their architectural background, inspiration, and the essence of their projects.…

This interview was recorded during the ARGUS “Night of Philosophy” event in 2016 at the New Institute in Rotterdam. Richard Sennett shares his thoughts on how people with different cultures experience the same built environment, proposing diverse solutions on how architects could improve community participation in the design process. Furthermore, h…

La jornada de “Ayudas a la movilidad para la discapacidad visual”, organizada por OK-Systems, Geko Navsat, El Real Patronato sobre Discapacidad y la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid A través del CESyA, tendrá lugar el 3 de Abril de 2014 en las instalaciones del Parque Científico de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid en Leganés (Madrid). El objetiv…

Third newsletter of the ARGUS project, describing the most significant progress

ARGUS Newsletter N. 2 (Deutsch) Dezember 2012

ARGUS Newsletter N. 1 (Deutsch) Marsch, 2012

In this first newsletter, we include an introduction to the project ARGUS for those who are new to it and want to know its goals, developments and expected results. For those who already know about the project, there are updates on the status of the project tasks, dissemination activities and short articles on relevant issues. Finally, we want to e…

This second newsletter contains articles showing the progress during the first year of the ARGUS project. During the first six months, the main effort was made in the identification of requirements and design of the system architecture. In the second six months, the most significant effort was made to develop a Preliminary Proof of concept prototyp…

Sistema asistente personal para guiado de personas con problemas de visión. El objetivo principal de ARGUS es desarrollar herramientas innovadoras que ayuden a personas ciegas o con problemas de visión para moverse autónomamente de modo seguro. Tales herramientas podrían ser usadas también por personas que trabajen en condiciones de baja visibilida…

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Jets and U.S. Air Force pilots head to war. (C) 2008. The Goldsboro News-Argus.Di Nick Hiltunen

Watch as the U.S. Army's "Golden Knights" parachute from their plane. (C) 2008. The Goldsboro News-Argus.Di Nick Hiltunen

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Hundreds of neglected dogs, some of which had never left cages for years, were turned over to Wayne County authorities on Tuesday. (C) 2008. The Goldsboro News-Argus.Di Nick Hiltunen

By NICK HILTUNEN News-Argus Video Editor Hundreds of mistreated dogs, some with feces in their fur and with matted hair and swollen eyes, were seized from a Wayne County property on Friday morning. It's being called the largest raid of a "puppy mill" in North Carolina state history. North Carolina has no laws against the facilities, which breed dog…

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(C) 2008. The Goldsboro News-Argus.Di Nick Hiltunen