Pittsburgh

Pioneers of the suburbs

Mike Pilewski asks: "Is it possible to live where no one has ever lived before?"

The best neighbor you could ask for

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood cleverly connected the real world of adults with the fantasy world of children.

Pittsburgh, home of the Conflict Kitchen (and many other things). Photo: Mike Pilewski

The Conflict Kitchen seeks to educate Americans about countries hostile to the US. Its events have included a teleconferenced meal: diners in Pittsburgh (pictured) and their counterparts in Tehran ate the same food while they talked via webcams.

Ah, the sounds of summer!

There are better places to spend the summer than in a noisy German industrial park, says Mike Pilewski. What does an American city sound like? Learn some sonic vocabulary.

Telling wry stories with Google Maps

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "Nobody, not even the makers, has any idea what people will do with today's new communication technologies."

The battle for Pittsburgh

The G-20 is an informal group of nations that happen to control most of what goes on in the world. The protesters outside their meeting place were an even more informal group trying to prevent exactly that.