Every Wednesday you will find links and top-line summaries to current events around the globe. Berkshire Bets on U.S. With a Railroad Purchase [New York Times] – Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of Warren E. Buffett, said on Tuesday that it planned to buy the 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe it did not already [...]

The gold prize winner in this year’s JCD (Japanese Commercial Environment Designers Association) design awards for ‘communication design in the commercial environment’, Ben Nagaoka’s Yamakoya is a great example of creating space within a space. Yamakoya, which means ‘wood-log cabin’ in Japanese, is a structure designed specifically for private research focusing on local history within [...]

Five times larger than the Titanic, Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is the world’s largest passenger vessel ever built. Oasis left her shipyard in Finland on Friday (Oct. 30, 2009) and is set to arrive at her home, Port Everglades, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 20th. With her Maiden voyage set for December [...]

Every Sunday the Sifter will highlight an article from the archives. In this week’s installment, we revisit the winner of the optical illusion of the year: The Break of the Curveball. There’s a great interactive tool that helps explain why a curveball is so difficult to hit. Check out the article by clicking the image [...]