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High rise buildings that grow, beach pods and pyramids -- what bringing farms to the city could look like.

PHOTO ESSAY: Farming the future

High rise buildings that grow, beach pods and pyramids -- what bringing farms to the city could look like.

Bringing new meaning to the term "bubblehead", the trendy young things in Japan have a new fad: injecting saline into their faces to create big swollen lumps.

Japan's latest trend: body inflation

Bringing new meaning to the term "bubblehead", the trendy young things in Japan have a new fad: injecting saline into their faces to create big swollen lumps.

Kodachrome has been discontinued. <em>Photojojo</em> suggests you help it go out in a blazing storm of colour by taking just one more roll.

Ode to Kodachrome

Kodachrome has been discontinued. Photojojo suggests you help it go out in a blazing storm of colour by taking just one more roll.

Turbans and <em>Miama Vice</em>-esque blazers. Just another day a la mer according to <em>Vogue Russia</em>.

Russians at the beach

Turbans and Miama Vice-esque blazers. Just another day a la mer according to Vogue Russia.

Declare your love and dedication to the <em>Matrix</em> trilogy with this step-by-step guide to tying your tie just like "The Merovingian". Guaranteed hit with the ladies.

Geek up your ties with the Matrix "Merovingian knot"

Declare your love and dedication to the Matrix trilogy with this step-by-step guide to tying your tie just like "The Merovingian". Guaranteed hit with the ladies.

<em>New York Magazine</em> has a regular series called shop-a-matic that's like capitalism porn, showcasing the best buys on a theme. For these recession times, 115 lipsticks.

The lipstick indicator

New York Magazine has a regular series called shop-a-matic that's like capitalism porn, showcasing the best buys on a theme. For these recession times, 115 lipsticks.

The most alarming question to arise from the Dreamliner fiasco is whether high composite airliners are doomed to fail, writes <strong>Ben Sandliands</strong>.

Dreamliner -- is it an impossible dream?

The most alarming question to arise from the Dreamliner fiasco is whether high composite airliners are doomed to fail, writes Ben Sandliands.

How Michael Jackson defied gravity on a 45 degree lean -- with a little help from engineering.

Jackson's legendary lean: it's patented

How Michael Jackson defied gravity on a 45 degree lean -- with a little help from engineering.

We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness, demands <strong>Roger Scruton</strong>.

Art for beauty's sake

We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness, demands Roger Scruton.

Were his father alive today, Christian Lacroix admits, he would be agonised to learn that his son's celebrated couture house – currently owned by the US-based Falic Group – has gone into voluntary receivership as a consequence of 10 million euro losses.

Lacroix: 'I am too angry to cry'

Were his father alive today, Christian Lacroix admits, he would be agonised to learn that his son's celebrated couture house – currently owned by the US-based Falic Group – has gone into voluntary receivership as a consequence of 10 million euro losses.