Addendum: There's a lot of fascinating background on the city's growing pains, and the lessons Istanbul holds in an age of urbanization around the globe, at the Web site of the Urban Age conference held there last year. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
UC - Irvine has a little bit of everything we love in a March Madness upset pick: They're a First Time Tourney team, they have a unique star with a genuinely fascinating background in Mamadou N'diaye, they have a dope mascot (the Anteater!) (sbnation.com)
He's a rich vein to tap into Destiny's fascinating background lore that never really surfaced in the first game, and it was all but bulldozed out of Destiny 2. (zam.com)