Nine unbuilt skyscrapers, including Mies van der Rohe's "shining cliff" and Frank Lloyd Wright's Mile High Illinois

Balsamic vinegar. Who knew?

US FDA gives Dolly the thumbs-up

It's a strange world when a professor of engineering is defending this crap and the Dean of Southwark is attacking it

An old favourite rediscovered

I've almost stopped buying from iTunes anyway

Another iTunes wish granted

AKA mother-of-pearl clouds, saw these when I was in Sweden. Nice picture galleries

Apparently nacreous clouds aren't good news, though

"Maybe we will soon have the choice between paper-thin electronic screens and solid walls directly displaying the revenue-generating ads."

Spectacular pictures of clouds erupting around aircraft breaking the sound barrier