Ken Burns 2.0

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

As Wired configures, to watch all of history buff and award-winning documentarian Ken Burns’ films would take 136 hours or 5.5 straight days. But thanks to modern technology and the creative team at digital agency Big Spaceship, Burns’ perpetually relevant records are taking new form in a Ken Burns iPad app, which not only allows people to experience his work in new digital form, but …

Scientific Munchies

A Ken Burns iPad app, touchscreen subway maps, swapping sexism and more in our weekly look at the web

Even casual tokers know the drill: puff, puff, pass—the Doritos. As marijuana becomes even more mainstream, an interest in understanding all of its side effects is increasing too, and the latest to undergo a scientific investigation is pot’s curious ability to make users insatiably hungry. Researchers at French agency INSERM have worked with genetically modified mice to play around with CB1 receptors in nerve cells, …

Felicia Ferrone Furniture

Birdcage-like lamps and sculptural side tables blur the boundaries of shape and form in her newest collection

Born and based in Chicago, furniture designer Felicia Ferrone is set to launch a brand new collection that pushes her in a different direction, with a mix of organic shapes constrained (or accentuated) by angular elements—or, as Ferrone herself puts it, “blurred boundaries.” Design purists needn’t panic though: Ferrone is still true to form with bookshelves, shelving and hat stands that keep the clean lines …