Curiosities

I'm reading two articles this weekend, and for some reason I felt they have something in common. The First, following the opening of his latest movie - "Rescue Dawn", is an interview with its director Werner Herzog. The film (which I still haven't seen) seems to be another chapter in the director's long journey into human wildernesses, and among other things, he also mentions a funny incident in which he got shot. Watch the video below:

The second, a fascinating article about the "Mannahatta Project" in The New Yorker, tells the story of Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how Manhattan would have appeared to its first explorers in 1609, and to depict the island as it was, just before it came under what is known today as Manhattan. Look at the amazing digital aerial view of Manhattan as it might have looked in 1609, juxtaposed with the outline of Manhattan today.Read here.

And that remind me of this book I heard about, with the interesting title: "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman. Let's imagine what happens when we are not around here, anymore. Click here to see what...