Design: Rocking Chairs, a History

This illustrated history of rocking chairs from Designboom covers origins ("We all know that the rocking chair is a distinctly American passion; its origins, however, are less clear"), precursors (such as the Swedish gungstol and the British Windsor rocker), and modern and contemporary chairs (such as Thonet bentwood rockers, Eames rockers, or an Italian rocking stool), and includes images of rocking chairs from a 2002 design competition. Designboom.

Design: Perspectives on Architecture and Urbanism From Around the Globe

The material collected by The Architectural League of New York about architecture and urban development for five cities around the world, including Beirut, Lebanon, and Caracas, Venezuela, has maps, statistics, timelines, background about architects, and illustrated essays and interviews on topics such as the San Diego/Tijuana border wall, women at work in Dhaka, and population density in Oslo. <http://www.worldviewcities.org/>

The Brain: Cognitive Daily News

"Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field....The research isn't dumbed down, but it's explained in language that everyone can understand, with clear illustrations and references to the original research." -- from the website. <http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/>

Californio: Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey

SurveyLA from the L.A. Department of City Planning's Office of Historic Preservation, "Los Angeles' first-ever comprehensive program to identify significant historic resources" for historic preservation purposes, identifies and evaluates historic properties and districts and offers a guide to using the Zoning Information and Map Access System to find historic preservation information, preservation resources, and related material. <http://preservation.lacity.org/survey>