Oleksii Reznikov insists Kyiv has the ability to hold back Russian forces if new push comes for anniversary of start of invasionWhat we know on day 347 of the invasionUkraine’s president, Volodymyr [...]
Poll shows 60% of Democrats want someone else as 2024 nominee and nearly 50% of Republicans want someone other than TrumpNearly 60% of Democrats and nearly 50% of Republicans want someone other than [...]
Subsidence from the world’s biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna. But what does its relocation mean for the local Sami reindeer herders?In the far north of [...]
Military ruler, one of country’s most divisive leaders after seizing power in coup, has died in exile in DubaiPervez Musharraf, the former army general and president of Pakistan who ruled for [...]
Exclusive: Looming auction to earmark £1.5bn to put power generators on standby and keep the lights onThe billionaire West Ham United investor Daniel Křetínský and Swiss commodities giant Vitol [...]
Woman tells how people-smugglers launched three children, aged 14, nine and five, on dinghy and left her behindThe mother of three Eritrean children seeking asylum, who were forced to cross the [...]
Amnesty does not apply to dual nationals, prisoners on death sentence or those that do not regret their crimes, say officialsA limited amnesty is to be offered to many of those detained in the recent [...]
Pamela Anderson on the beach. | Netflix
Netflix’s new Pamela Anderson documentary is a clever meta commentary on the wronged-woman reevaluation trend. Netflix’s [...]
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a meeting with President Xi [...]
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Austerity, Brexit, wage stagnation and a cost of living crisis have pushed British workers to the brink. British workers have hit a breaking [...]
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holding a press conference during the NATO Summit at the IFEMA congress centre in Madrid, Spain, on June 30, 2022. | Beata [...]
Bad Bunny onstage during a performance on his World’s Hottest Tour, on September 30, 2022, in Inglewood, California. | Kevin Winter/Getty Images
The Grammy nominated [...]
Michelle Yeoh with hot dog fingers in Everything Everywhere All at Once. | A24
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Enlarge / A view of the Colorado River from the Navajo Bridge in Marble Canyon, Arizona on Aug. 31, 2022. (credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
In 2007, the seven states that [...]
Enlarge / The Vanpowers City Vanture. Spotting the "e" on this e-bike at a glance is trickier than most. (credit: Kevin Purdy)
A "city" bike could mean many different things. It [...]
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On Saturday afternoon, US jets intercepted the Chinese surveillance balloon as it was leaving the continental US. Live footage of the [...]
Enlarge / An early edition of one of Dublin's most famous literary masterpieces: Ulysses by James Joyce, published in 1922. (credit: Fran Caffrey/AFP/Getty Images)
Ulysses, the [...]
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The 1960s was a big decade for cannabis: Images of flower power, the summer of love and Woodstock wouldn’t be complete without a [...]
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Your gut has an obvious job: It processes the food you eat. But it has another important function: It protects you from the bacteria, viruses, or [...]
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My co-op gaming group has logged a few hundred extra hours in Deep [...]
It’s lunchtime when your phone pings you with a green owl who cheerily reminds you to “Keep Duo Happy!” It’s a nudge from Duolingo, the popular language-learning app, whose algorithms know [...]
The introduction of any new system causes perturbations within the current operating environment, which in turn, create behavioral responses, some predictable, many not. As University of Michigan [...]
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few [...]
As the automotive industry develops vehicles with increased levels of autonomous driving requiring more sensors and increased connectivity, it faces the challenge of transporting and processing a [...]
Some observers say the metaverse is an expanded set of digital worlds that will grow out of the online environments that people are already familiar with, such as enhancing the extended-reality (XR) [...]
Achieving fully autonomous driving relies on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication between the surrounding infrastructure and in-vehicle-based sensors.The functionality and safety of systems [...]
IEEE Life Fellow Vinton “Vint” Cerf, widely known as the “Father of the Internet,” is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor. He is being recognized “for co-creating the Internet [...]
What UX podcasts are you listening to? Below you’ll find a few wonderful UX podcasts we came across, as well as podcasts that the UX community shared with us.
Whether you’re particularly [...]
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Since Next.js 13 release, there’s been some debate about how stable the shiny new features packed in the announcement are. On “What’s New in Next.js 13?” we have covered the release announced [...]
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Perhaps this is a controversial statement, but I hate it when UI and UX designers are referred to interchangeably. To my mind, at least, they are different [...]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) have been a staple in Web Development for quite some time, and for a good reason. They can be scaled up or down without loss of quality due to their vector properties. [...]
Nurturing connections with your customers is one of the most effective ways to gain valuable insight into their experiences with your product and make informed decisions that fuel growth and success. [...]
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So far this is the 7th blog in the journey of basics to advance SQL. you can refer to previous blogs for learning SQL from scratch, This blog contains good knowledge about views, functions, and [...]
Meet Mr. ChatGPT: A Large Language Model Trained by OpenAIHello and welcome to the blog! My name is ChatGPT, and I am a large language model trained by OpenAI. P.S. This article includes a use case [...]
The AI revolution is upon us, and it’s important to be prepared for the changes it will bring. Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to disrupt industries and change the way we live and work. From [...]
Day 6: Advance SQL For Data ScienceThis blog contains type of joins like Inner join, Left join, Right join , Full join, Self join and Cross join.A JOIN clause is used to combine rows from two or [...]
Hundreds of these cannabis-related chemicals now exist, both natural and synthetic, inspiring researchers in search of medical breakthroughs — and fueling a dangerous trend in recreational use
Paleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debate about handling remains. Who gives consent for study participants long gone — and who should speak [...]
The liquid that our mouths produce isn’t just a lubricant. It plays an active role in how we perceive taste and can influence what we choose to eat, researchers are discovering.
The technology could transform how growers protect their harvests, by detecting plant diseases very early on. But the challenge is to develop tools that are as affordable as they are effective.
More than a decade ago, a team of scientists decided they wanted to shoot neutrinos from Fermilab outside Chicago to a target buried in an abandoned gold mine 810 miles away. It was a big idea, one [...]
In 1879, the German botanist Anton de Bary coined the term symbiosis. People usually think of symbiosis in terms of mutually beneficial relationships, but scientifically it’s a catch-all for any [...]
When I first heard it, it sounded like a brief, blustery outtake. A momentary lull in an outdoor event captured by an old camcorder. A sonic slice of a windy afternoon anywhere on Earth.
The [...]
When Summer Praetorius, author of this issue’s cover story, shared this photo of her brother, Jebsen, with me, I was enchanted beyond belief. It’s like a Norman Rockwell painting, I told her. It [...]
One question for Jon Rueda, a Ph.D. candidate and La Caixa INPhINIT Fellow at the University of Granada, where he studies the intersection between bioethics, ethics of emerging technologies, and [...]
For most of the year, Iceberg Alley is gray and cold. The largest city on its shores, St. John’s, is known as “Canada’s Weather Champion.” Among major Canadian cities, the capital of [...]
George Church looks like he needs a nap. I’m talking to him on Zoom, and his eyelids have grown heavy, inclining toward slumber. Or maybe my mind is playing tricks on me. He assures me he is wide [...]
In the Andes, minga, a form of collective labor, has existed for centuries, often helping communities weather disasters. But how does it work in practice?
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Judith grew up on the southern flank of [...]
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human.
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As a university student in the early 2010s, I recall how beautifully simple our [...]
The 2020 discovery of an ancient villa in Britain uncovered the most important Roman mosaic found in the last century. An archaeologist explains how the mosaic offers an alternate ending to a grim [...]
A Tohono O’odham poet and linguist reflects on the stories and wisdom ancestors communicated—how people survived, how they dispersed and differentiated, how they remember.
“Rock [...]
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology argues that true decolonization would require the complete dismantling of existing global power structures, including academic [...]
Three contributors to a special series reflect on why slowing down and building trust between community partners is fundamental to decolonizing anthropology—and our shared future.
This contribution [...]
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology reckons with bioarchaeology’s racist past by focusing on Black women’s creativity and everyday lives in her work.
This contribution [...]
We’ve all heard that dogs are a man’s best friend, but our canine companions don’t make up the entirety of humankind’s friend circle. Humans have cooperated with wild animals throughout [...]
Call them plant motors. Or plant muscles. Tiny bulges of specialized cells in a mimosa plant can fold its feathery leaflets together in seconds, then relax — and do it again.
A new look at [...]
Early man in America takes a step backward — Science News, January 27, 1973
“Early Americans lived among and hunted mammoth, camel, extinct horse and bison as far back as [...]
Ice cubes float in water because they’re less dense than the liquid. But a newfound type of ice has a density nearly equal to what’s in your water glass, researchers report in the Feb. 3 [...]
A newfound species of frog doesn’t ribbit. In fact, it doesn’t make any sound at all.
Many frogs have unusual characteristics, from turning translucent to being clumsy jumpers (SN: [...]
Are your cats play fighting or fighting fur real?
It turns out that certain behaviors in domestic cats could be telltale signs that an interaction is friendly, aggressive or something in [...]
Vikings brought horses and dogs to the British Isles from Scandinavia, a new study suggests.
A chemical analysis of bone fragments from a cemetery in England provides the first solid [...]
A mysterious portrait of the Virgin Mary and Jesus may have been painted by the master Raphael, facial recognition finds. But many art historians reject the claim
Some scientists say the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s suggestion of updating COVID vaccines each year, as happens with influenza vaccines, could boost uptake. But others are less convinced
Comet ZTF is still near its brightest, moonlight and all. Around the Big and Little Dog Stars, trace out the stick-figure patterns of the big and little dogs. A ghostly unicorn haunts the inside of [...]
Terence Dickinson, Canadian astronomer and author of numerous popular books on astronomy, has passed away.
The post Terence Dickinson (1943 – 2023) appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
NASA’s Lucy mission now has a new first target of opportunity, a main-belt asteroid it will visit this November.
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We explore Comet ZTF's remarkable trio of tails and share the latest news and photos.
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February 4th marks the midway point between Decemberʼs solstice and the March equinox. Celebrate that celestial milestone by getting outside to gaze in awe at the amazing array of bright stars [...]
The discovery of a dozen new moons for Jupiter makes the king of planets the king of moons, too — at least for now.
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Forget the hype and go outside to enjoy the real thing — a relatively bright comet you can see in binoculars from a dark sky.
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A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds, but scientists have no clue what caused [...]
Crew-6 will head to the International Space Station after its Feb. 26 launch, but three of its four crewmembers are preparing for the next generation of missions to the [...]
February's Full Snow Moon rises on Sunday (Feb. 5) and will be the smallest full moon of the year due to the current position of the moon in its orbit.
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An F-22 fighter jet destroyed a Chinese balloon with a Sidewinder missile on Saturday (Feb. 4) when the airship was over the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast. [...]
The Architects’ Journal
Zaha Hadid Architects sees profits eaten up by soaring staff costs
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) saw its pre-tax profit plummet by more than 90 per cent last year, according [...]
The Architects’ Journal
TV star leads battle against Herzog & de Meuron’s Liverpool Street revamp
TV presenter and comedian Griff Rhys Jones is leading an ‘unprecedented coalition of [...]
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Hyperspace transforms old garage into ‘moody’ studio with bug-hotel façade
Hyperspace has created a 35m2 studio in Hertfordshire with a façade made of 850 scales of [...]
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Haptic wins Norwegian civic hub contest
Haptic and Oslo-based PIR2 have won a competition for a new school and cultural centre on site of Norway’s first airportThe post [...]
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RIBA presses govt to publish survey of collapsing school buildings
RIBA president Simon Allford has called on the government to reveal which schools are most at risk of [...]
The Architects’ Journal
One week left to enter! Deadline nears for AJ Small Projects 2023
Entry to this year's AJ Small Projects closes next Friday (10 February). Does your project have what it [...]
The Architects’ Journal
Shackerley SureClad® delivers a luxury porcelain ceramic façade in Leeds
Designed by DLG architects, the New York Square build to rent (BTR) development has involved [...]
In the last two years, a new wave of enterprising gallerists have put down roots in LA, feeding the city’s appetite for unorthodox programming and experimental work.
This weekend, Arooj Aftab is returning to the Grammys to perform her song “Udhero Na”— and potentially nab a second award for Best Global Music Performance.
A thin concrete colonnade on a perforated brick base forms the Ningwu Oatmeal Factory in Shanxi province, China, which has been designed by Beijing architecture studio JSPA Design.
Located on an [...]
For our latest lookbook, we have collected 10 apartments in Spain that have been brought to life using decorative tiles, from preserved 20th-century features to speckled contemporary terrazzo [...]
London design office A-nrd has used a palette of neutral and natural materials to give this restaurant in Soho a laidback atmosphere reminiscent of an Australian beach club.
Milk Beach Soho is the [...]
An oak "skin" wraps the interior of living spaces at this apartment in Mexico City, renovated by locally based Esrawe Studio.
The two-bedroom Loma Residence in the neighbourhood of Lomas de [...]
Architecture practice Pema Studio drew on the idea of a protected fortress when creating the Forte House, a blocky, white-rendered home that replaces a neglected existing structure in Santo Tirso, [...]
Our latest lookbook explores homes where pocket doors slide into gaps within the walls, as a way of saving space or giving a more open feel to an interior.
A pocket door is a specific type of [...]
This week on Dezeen, studios including Adjaye Associates, Morphosis, Studio Fuksas and Coop Himmelb(l)au were named as working on The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia.
In total, 12 architecture [...]
I declare herewith once more and most emphatically that the guilt of the German people in this war — into which they were forced by you — consists solely in trying to end the eternal difficulties [...]
In recent years, we have heard much about the need to accept the findings of “the science,” despite the fact that such a thing does not exist. Scientists and informed observers know that science [...]
Seemingly out of nowhere, “reforming” Social Security has become a point of emphasis for some Washington Republicans. It began to bubble up with Sen. Rick Scott’s policy manifesto and now may [...]
I recently received The American Spectator’s Barbara Olson Award. It was a great honor, particularly because I knew Barbara, the lawyer, congressional investigator, and conservative force of nature [...]
Saturday
I had a disastrous night last night. The woman who is the closest to me of any human on earth had a wild panic attack while watching Perry Mason. It was terrifying. She was shaking like a [...]
The Washington Post reported this week that “allies” of Hunter Biden are considering setting up a legal defense fund for the president’s son.
Has President Joe Biden’s son [...]
The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City
By Scott Peeples
(Princeton University Press, 224 pages, $25)
The writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) spent his entire life searching for a place [...]
Happy summer from the Works in Progress team. We hope you are staying cool. In our new issue out today, we have articles on how to fix peer review, rescue our roads from cars, and use [...]
Calum Heath illustrates the cover for this issue. He is a freelance illustrator based in Oxford, UK. You can follow him on Instagram here.
Hello from the Works in Progress team! In case you missed [...]
We are pleased to announce that Works in Progress has a new home at Stripe, where we’ll be teaming up with Stripe Press to further ideas for economic, scientific and technological advancement.
In [...]
For thirteen years I had an interest in echolocation jamming, ever since I read Lynne Peeples reporting in Scientific American on Aaron Cochran’s doctoral research into how tiger moths click to [...]
There is a symmetry between Corky Lee’s passing and the rise of Stop Anti-Asian Hate: the departure of Asian America’s greatest documentarian and its most visible recent efflorescence. Years [...]
To celebrate a year since the publication of Ari M. Brostoff’s essay collection, Missing Time, join n+1 for an evening with Brostoff and contributor Blair McClendon. They’ll discuss the book, [...]
Join n+1 for a discussion between the poets Eugene Ostashevsky and Genya Turovskaya. They’ll be discussing ghost languages, host languages, translation, and Ostashevsky’s new collection The [...]
She is cutting, wary, funny, and wise. Her style is what I wish I had instead of the chipper inner voice I’m stuck with. Nothing in Malcolm’s writing is dull or amiss unless she’s quoting [...]
That Panahi was arrested shortly after completing the film—and that he is now serving out the six-year prison sentence originally handed down in 2010 in Tehran’s infamous Ervin Prison—is an [...]
“You should see my kids,” Issam continued. At his home in La Capelette, a neighborhood in the tenth arrondissement, one child had been wearing face paint in the colors of the French flag, the [...]
“I don’t want to jump to a conclusion. I want to arrive at one.”
Shapearl Wells uttered those words during our first meeting at the Invisible Institute almost six years ago. She would repeat [...]
Foto: Marcos Oliveira/Agência Senado
Um ex-deputado se encontra com um senador e diz que tem um assunto urgente. Em seguida, liga para o presidente da República e passa o telefone ao senador. O [...]
Rep. Ilhan Omar, who was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is seen following a vote at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 2, 2023.
Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington [...]
“White Supremacy Culture,” an article by Tema Okun, was first written to outline and analyze how white supremacy operates in organizations. But in the past few years, with renewed attention on [...]
A war between China and Taiwan will be extremely good for business at America’s Frontier Fund, a tech investment outfit whose co-founder and CEO sits on both the State Department Foreign [...]
The champions of the “free market” are frantically lobbying to block the Federal Trade Commission’s imminent ban on noncompete agreements, which prevent workers from seeking better-paying jobs [...]
Graffiti on a Christian pregnancy center that does anti-abortion counseling in Portland, Oregon on June 27, 2022.
Photo: John Rudoff/Sipa USA via AP
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or [...]
Last month, we delved into a proposal to use digital technology to clone the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Marbles currently housed in the British Museum.
The hope is that such uncanny facsimiles [...]
We know that Neil deGrasse Tyson was something of a wunderkind during his high school years. If you’re an OC regular, you’ve read all about how Carl Sagan personally recruited Tyson to [...]
Great news for Open Culture readers. Taschen, the publisher of beautiful art books, is running its biannual warehouse sale. It starts today and runs through Sunday, February 5. This sale gives you [...]
A recent Pew Research Center survey found that nearly one in five American teenagers is on Youtube “almost constantly.” Ten years ago, the figure surely wouldn’t have been that high, and [...]
“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,” declares the opening poem in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. But the possibilities are many and varied: “Peter, Augustus, [...]
The Youtuber “EmperorTigerstar” specializes in documenting the unfolding of world historical events by stitching together hundreds of maps into timelapse films. In years past, we’ve [...]
We have covered it before: school districts across the United States are increasingly censoring books that don’t align with conservative, white-washed visions of the world. Art [...]
As part of the DOCUAMERICA project, which sought to produce a visual record of the 1970s US, John H. White took stunning photographs of Black Chicago. [...]
After supposedly stealing 500,000 francs from his bank, the mysterious Victor Dubreuil (b. 1842) turned up penniless in the United States and began to paint dazzling trompe l’oeil images of dollar [...]
Caucusgoers stand beneath the sign for the South Carolina delegation at the Democratic National Convention. Bill Clark /CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty ImagesThe Democratic National Committee approved a [...]
Kate Winslet promoting 'Avatar: The Way of Water' in London in December 2022. Winslet held her breath for over seven minutes during filming of the movie. (Shutterstock)Kate Winslet reportedly [...]
As Canadians weigh the pros and cons of alcohol use, they should be thinking not just about the risks to their physical health, but also to their mental health. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian WyldNearly [...]
Canada is on the road to transformation in mobility. The federal government recently announced its zero-emission vehicle sales target, which requires all light-duty passenger vehicles sold by 2035 to [...]
Canada has a shortage of doctors. That's why making it difficult for internationally trained doctors to practise here is so mystifying. (Francisco Venancio, Unsplash)Internationally trained [...]
A flooded street in Lagos, Nigeria Wikimedia CommonsMany countries in Africa suffer from disasters annually, but the adverse effects are grossly under-reported compared with coverage of more [...]
South Africa's governing ANC has continued the anti-cannabis repression inherited from apartheid.
shutterstockCannabis is being commercialised into a multibillion-dollar global industry and [...]
Gianna Theodore in Kyle Abraham’s Our Indigo: If We Were a Love Song.
Over the past year I have read and reread Angelica Nuzzo’s book Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely, in which Nuzzo guides [...]
Photograph of A. M. Homes by Marion Ettlinger. Photograph of Yiyun Li by Basso Cannarsa/Agence Opale.
A few times a year, the writers Yiyun Li and A. M. Homes sit down to lunch. As friends, they [...]
Belted Galloway. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0.
The other day we went to Albany so I could return all eight items I had bought online from Athleta. The store was in a giant mall that [...]
I have seen the Mississippi. That is muddy water. I have seen the Saint Lawrence. That is crystal water. But the Thames is liquid history.
—John Burns, quoted in the Daily Mail, January 25, [...]
Years ago, while on assignment, I interviewed a man who spent what felt like hours showing me pictures of the various couches he was thinking of purchasing for his new home. The couches were [...]
Still from Anya Zalevskaya’s Posle priliva (2020). Courtesy of the director.
In the fall of 2019 I was newly living in the Midwest. In my free time, I’d take long, aimless walks, trying to tune [...]
Pavement. Photograph by Marcus Roth, Courtesy of Matador Records.
One of the more remarkable things about being behind the wheel of a tour bus for Pavement is that you can easily kill Pavement if you [...]
Son Heung-Min – known to his fans as “Sonny” or “Sonshine” – is arguably everyone’s favourite person in football. Rarely seen without a smile, the Spurs forward’s infectious energy [...]
The title of Evita Manji’s debut album Spandrel? refers to an evolutionary quirk that lacks any clear or obvious function. “It’s something that is a byproduct of our evolution that doesn't [...]
If the cool girl is dead, then make-up artist Selena Ruiz would be dolling up the girlies for the funerals – chocolate over-lined lips, dark skinny eyebrows and bold wings all included. The gig [...]
At the AW23 edition of Copenhagen Fashion Week, Alectra Rothschild staged her own funeral, swapping out the hearse for a motorcycle and the pallbearers for high-femme nightriders with janky hair [...]
Legendary fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88. The announcement was broadcast on Instagram this afternoon with a statement from the house, reading: “Paco Rabanne wishes to [...]
AntsLive wants you to know that no green screen was used in the making of his viral music video. “Everything that you see… that’s all real,” he tells me excitedly at the start of our Zoom [...]
Australia is to become the first country to recognise MDMA and magic mushrooms as medicine. The news was announced this afternoon (February 3), with both drugs set to be prescribed in cases of [...]
Throughout the world, there are a variety of statues, memorials, and other commemorations dedicated to the Scottish physician, missionary, and explorer David Livingstone. But the one [...]
Judith Utterbuck Lowe was born in 1936. She grew up in Southwest Washington, D.C., and in 1958, the city used its power of eminent domain to demolish her home.
Her family relocated to Del [...]
The Big Camera is home to the personal collection of owner Charles "Chic" Wadley.
Situated in the small town of Meckering, the museum has over 1,500 working cameras on display, ranging from [...]
On the far western edge of the Oregon State University campus, tucked between verdant farmlands and a sports field, an extraordinary facility is hosting experiments that could save humanity. [...]
Down a small street in the Condom, France, lies an 18th-century cellar that holds the world's largest collection of old vintage Armagnacs in one place. Armagnac, France's oldest spirit, is [...]
"Laundry" may be an odd name for a café, but would it make more sense or make it even odder if it came equipped with washing machines? And what if, not only that, it had clothes dryers, [...]
"Memory Is Creation Without End" is the name given to this interesting work of public art that sits at the edge of the Royal Botanic Gardens in central Sydney. It was created in 2000 by [...]
Richard Wilson – Turning the Place Over, 2007, installation view, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom, photo: Turning the Place Over by Richard Wilson (CC BY 2.0) [...]
Roman Ondák – Measuring the Universe, 2007, performance, felt-tip pen, museum guards, museum audience, photo: Ernst Jank, courtesy: The Artist, gb agency, Paris, Martin Janda, Vienna and Johnen, [...]
Carve – Marmara Forum Cloud Playground, 2020, constructed using 275 double curved stainless steel panels, area of ca. 400 m²
Introduction
The roof park of Marmara Forum is perhaps one of the [...]
With fifteen ballots to elect a Speaker, the 118th Congress rolled out to an interesting start. In this new Congress, the American Humanist Association (AHA) and its political and advocacy arm, the [...]
The latest from Cagle Cartoons.
Humans need not apply by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
The post The Comics Section: Hiring Ethics appeared first on [...]
The communications team at the American Humanist Association has adopted a 2023 strategic content calendar to refresh and invigorate collective conversations on topics not typically seen as [...]
This is part of The Humanist’s monthly series highlighting openly nonreligious elected officials across the nation. Because of the work of the Center for Freethought Equality, the political and [...]
An anonymous Medieval poet wrote this:
A moth ate words. It seemed to me
a strange occasion, when I inquired about that wonder,
that the worm swallowed the riddle of certain men,
a thief in the [...]
This is the third in a series of articles this month about alcohol and addiction that are part of the American Humanist Association’s Dry January Challenge.
New Year’s resolutions have been [...]
The latest from Cagle Cartoons.
America’s Gun Problem Solution by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
The post The Comics Section: Connect the Dots appeared first [...]
How cats came to Europe, part of Frank Jacobs’ Strange Maps series. See also Mummy of an Egyptian Cat / Gaming Like It’s 1927, (via MeFi), the latest ‘annual public domain game [...]
Another nail in the coffin. Google’s MusicLM generates relatively convincing audio from text descriptions (via MeFi and MusicRadar). You know the kind of thing it’ll be used for: [...]
Randomness follows / exploring a collection of old Wired articles via Kottke) / ‘Invisible Houses‘ are never really invisible / houses on film, six classics / Edinburgh recreated in Far [...]
Horror in the Modernist Block, a fascinating-looking exhibition that completely passed us by / Paris then and now / Rosecrans Baldwin on the diaphanous void that is the internet / fictional food, [...]
Flashbak has a couple of galleries of London as it was it the recent past: King’s Cross before the ‘change’ and Photos of Vauxhall and South London in the 1980s. Both galleries [...]
Old things for a new year / the Japanese Portable Record Player Catalog / this 1950s Fender ‘Payola’ Telecaster has three sets of circuitry and outputs so that three guitar tracks could [...]
Utterly random today. A new book celebrates the evolution of Barbie’s Dreamhouse / the eccentric (real life) homes of David Lee / 2022’s best experimental music, courtesy of Bandcamp / [...]
Today it has been announced that pioneering Spanish-born designer Paco Rabanne has passed away, aged 88. The news was confirmed by the official Paco Rabanne Instagram, as well as the brand’s parent [...]
On the first day of 2023, the copyright of Alan Crosland’s venerated yet troubling classic, The Jazz Singer, finally expired. A little over 95 years have passed since its pioneering introduction of [...]
In 2013, a Senegalese woman travelled 150 miles from Paris to a seaside town in the Pas-de-Calais department of France, breastfed her baby on the beach, and left her to drown as the tide came in. [...]
Celebrating an impressive 20-year anniversary this spring is the UK’s largest festival of Japanese cinema – with the latest edition of the Japan Foundation’s Touring Film Programme (JFTFP) [...]
Women’s bodies are deeply politicised, whether they are used for porn, procreation, or domestic service. Radical feminist artists Hannah Wilke (b. 1940, d. 1993) and Linder (b. 1954) have both [...]
“How do you know you are loved? How do you know someone cares for you?” asks writer and academic Alva Gotby in the opening lines of her new book, They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional [...]
“A return to formality,” reads the concise show notes for Alexander McQueen’s Autumn/Winter 2023 Men’s collection, with a matter-of-factness emblematic of the British label’s uber-refined [...]
Called to testify in a 1981 lawsuit brought by a San Diego transit workers union against Aztec Bus Lines, photographer Fred Lonidier found himself explaining the finances of his art [...]
A review of 96 artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin in Swiss museums found proof or strong evidence that more than half of the items were stolen by British soldiers in the 19th [...]
A high court in South Korea ordered the return of a Buddhist statue that was stolen from a temple in Japan in 2012.
The statue, which is more than 450 years old, depicts the [...]
A life-sized statue of a Roman emperor depicted as the Greek hero Hercules was discovered near the Appian Way, ancient Rome’s first highway. The statue was recovered on January 25 [...]
This week, a French appeals court upheld the charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, the former president and director of the Louvre in Paris, for his alleged complicity in [...]
It may have been only a couple days since word leaked out that a long-awaited Anish Kapoor sculpture in New York was finally complete, but already, crowds have begun to form on a [...]
New York art school Cooper Union has postponed the exhibition “Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde,” originally scheduled to open on January 25. The Moscow art and [...]
A painted wood stripe runs along the perimeter of the interior walls of the deconsecrated ninth-century church of Sant’Andrea De Scaphis. Like the river Tiber lying a stone’s [...]
According to legend, the capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan—today known as Mexico City—was founded by the Mexica (the early Aztecs) when they left Aztlán, their [...]
GODLAND HAS TWO TITLE CARDS: one in Icelandic, the other in Danish. Hlynur Pálmason’s new film exists in the tension between these two languages, which are really [...]
Anish Kapoor’s massive stainless-steel sculpture known colloquially as the bean was unveiled in New York City’s TriBeCa neighborhood on January 31. The shiny curved colossus, [...]
One might be misled by the title of Jeni Spota C.’s most recent exhibition, “Works on Paper.” A more appropriate name might be “Works in Paper” or, even more [...]
As part of our new A Portfolio series, we show you the works of Joseph Yaeger, who currently is showing at The Perimeter in London. We take a look today at recent works from the Montana-born, [...]
In Thinkspace Projects' Gallery III opening this weekend, they are excited to showcase Phenomenon, the debut west coast U.S. solo exhibition of from Japanese artist Noritoshi Mitsuuchi. Resembling [...]
In Diego Moreno's work there is a tense calm. A kind of mutism plagued by murmurs. Everything begins at home: a domestic scene, a birthday, a religious rite. The family space in which many of us have [...]
NANZUKA is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by American artist Matthew Palladino at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. This marks the artist’s latest solo exhibition with NANZUKA following his [...]
When you first look at the new solo show of Amy Bennett's, Open Season, on view now at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, you don't have to be conscious of the fact that some works were started [...]
The Brixton-based artist revisits her past as she prepares for a future where she leaves her studio behind…
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Does a brief appearance by the world’s most famous painting unlock the meaning of Japanese filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower?
The post Mobsters and the Mona Lisa: What Does Da [...]
From minerals to tektites, artists have a newfound fascination with everything stone, says Hettie Judah
The post Let’s Rock! Why Has Art Taken a Geological Turn? appeared first on ELEPHANT.
The groundbreaking artist talks Sophia Satchell-Baeza through a career that has helped shift the boundaries of feminist art
The post Penny Slinger: “If Art Cannot Shift Your Sense of Reality, Then [...]
Galleries haven’t always operated today’s “look, don’t touch” policy. Meridian Payseno grabs hold of the history of physical interaction with art.
The post Hands Off! Why Is Physical [...]
The shifting reds of the American artist’s works mirror the way that journalist Hannah Strong sees her own mental illness
The post How Rothko’s Seagram Murals Reflected My Own Despair Back at Me [...]
What is it about art and feet? Madeleine Pollard dips her toe into the world of foot fetishism…
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I remember the ticking sound that echoed through their house in Genola, Utah; a cadence to the moments spent with them. The walls of their home, filled with love and warmth. Grandma’s cooking, and [...]
Hardcover or paperback, Libby or Audible, the age-old question about book design remains the same: what makes a successful book cover?
Although we were all raised with the cliched adage, [...]
PRINTCast: The PRINT Podcast Studio is a curated collection of cutting-edge podcasts we love about design, creativity, branding, books, and further subjects afield. Here’s the latest episode [...]
For the past few months I’ve been anxious about a suspicious report from my doctor. So suspicious that he sent me to a specialist. Who sent me to get various imaging tests. Which resulted in [...]
San Francisco-based brand strategy and design studio Landscape is helping people reframe at-home ketamine therapy with their new branding for the provider Mindbloom. The evolved brand [...]
What do your favorites tell you about your “personality?”
In the 21st century we have come to see our “personality” as an organizing principle that makes its way through the world in a [...]
John Wilcock (1927-2018) was one of the great “happening” characters of midcentury America, beat myth to Hippie legend. He was founder of half a dozen underground papers, and started one [...]
“Giddy Up” (2022), oil on canvas, 14 × 16 inches. All images courtesy of Thinkspace Projects, shared with permission
Urbanites know the subway is a prime location to spot the city’s [...]
׳מאדאם בטרפליי׳ עולה באופרה הישראלית שוב אחרי עשור, ומזכירה בעיצוב הבמה את ההופעה של נירוונה בתיאטרון פרמאונט מ־1991 - מינימליסטית, אייקונית וזכירה, עם עוצמות שמותירות חלל אדיר אחרי שנגמרו.
בתערוכת היחיד החדשה שלו Visions of the City בגלריית ATM בניו יורק, האמן הקרואטי סטיפן טאדיק (Stipan Tadić) מציג ציורים המתאפיינים בריאליזם ברוטלי לצד רומנטיות חלומית.
Brandon Robshaw (2020). Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa? Reconciling Liberalism, Multiculturalism and European Politics. Bloomsbury Academic. 265 pages. ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-3501-2505-6. Get [...]
We all want our money to serve the right cause – but how can we make sure that it will? Catherine Greene on what is involved in ethical investing and ESG considerations.
What is ethical [...]
It is rarely denied that, in societies remotely like our own, an
impressive array of vices or human failings is on display. Hypocrisy, greed, cruelty, prejudice, envy, sentimentality, dishonesty, [...]
A history of philosophy in its most famous quotes. Today: Albert Schweitzer, medical doctor, theologian, musician and philosopher who left it all behind to go and help the poorest in Africa, saying: [...]
Kant is an unlikely source of humour, one might suppose, given his, by
all accounts, reined-in, well-regulated way of life. On the other hand,
others report that he could be quite a wit and good [...]
Are you a German speaker? If so, we now offer a subset of Daily Philosophy articles in German at the address: daily-philosophy.de
Leave a comment to tell us how you like it and what we can [...]
What sort of rights should a fetus or embryo have? This isn’t the only question in debates about abortion, but it’s an important one.
The central claim of anti-abortion activists is that [...]
Being and Stalingrad: On the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad
In the climax to the 2001 Stalingrad film Enemy at the Gates, Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law) and his antagonist [...]
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon”: A Review
After two critically acclaimed films winning mainstream attention, Damian Chazelle is back with a depiction of the 1920s film industry in [...]
The Aristotelian and Noble Art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Last year, marching steadily towards a midlife crisis, I asked my Twitter followers: “What martial art would you start learning at age [...]
“Was ist Enchantment?” Why the way forward requires us to abandon illusions
Michel Foucault begins his 1983 lecture “What is Enlightenment?” with the claim that the whole of [...]
Remembering California: The Golden State at a crossroad
“Best way to live in California is to be from somewhere else.”— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
The beacon of hope that [...]
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Passenger”: A Review
“He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the [...]
The late Pope Benedict XVI’s writing as an antidote to the regime’s spell
On the day of Pope Benedict XVI’s death, one journalist commented that “never has there been such a [...]
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Harry Smith’s foundational 1952 mixtape that [...]
Working with a team of hit-making collaborators, the country-pop icon returns with a bland collection of optimistic affirmations and pumping electro-pop rhythms.
Produced by BADBADNOTGOOD, the second album from the Hiroshima-born, Montreal-based singer-songwriter explores heartbreak and familial history with a subtle and dynamic approach.
The North Carolina rapper refines his technical wizardry on his second album, but he’s too often buried by 9th Wonder and Khrysis’ overblown production.
On the South Korean artist’s astounding third album, the past and the present, the real and the fake dissolve seamlessly into surreal, maximalist pop music.
Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Steve Lacy, Lizzo, Stevie Wonder, Kacey Musgraves, Migos’ Quavo, and others will take the stage during music’s biggest night
Frankie Valli, Sheryl Crow and Lil Wayne also gave memorable performances as the Davis Gala made its in-person return for the first time since 2020 as the pandemic derailed the event
"We could not have cared less about the gender politics at the time, and we still do not," said Heart's Nancy Wilson at the gathering before the 65th annual Grammy Awards
Man on the Run, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, is "the definitive document of Paul’s emergence from the dissolution of the world’s biggest band"
Writing songs for top acts used to be a reliable source of income. Now, thanks to a rapidly changing industry, songwriters face trouble making ends meet
The 2 February edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Langham Research Centre & John Butcher, Camae Ayewa, Lydia [...]
The film maker and sound artist presents a selection of his most beloved movie scores
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The Garden (Mute) 1991
The Garden by Simon Fisher [...]
Your favourite independent music magazine is launching into the new year with a whole new look
With its forthcoming March issue The Wire will be switching to a new format, [...]
Contributor Clive Bell selects ten pieces of writing from The Wire’s back pages featuring Michael Nyman, Chris Watson, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Stereolab and more. All [...]
Tom Verlaine died on 28 January aged 73. Read Alan Licht’s 2006 cover story on the Television guitarist and singer free in our online library.
Out Of The Cool: Tom [...]
The 26 January edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Zoë Mc Pherson, Avola, OPLA, Gerald Cleaver/Brandon Lopez/Hprizm, [...]
Made in collaboration with his two kids, Pedro Guimarães’ book is a different take on the family album—one that bounces back and forth between imaginations to conjure up the spectres, smiles and [...]
Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The second in a two-part series.
A relentless drive combined with a thoughtfully cultivated humanness—according to the sought-after photographer Nadav Kander, that is what it takes to make your mark in our age of visual glut.
Across a collection of archival images, cyanotypes, newspaper clippings and natural ephemera, Luis Carlos Tovar revisits an unspoken family memory to explore the thorny process of reconciling with [...]
A striking portrait is composed of many ingredients. Director of Photography at M magazine, Lucy Conticello, reflects on the role of the photo editor and shares her words of wisdom on creating the [...]
Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The first in a two-part series.
The name of Milton Caniff may not be as familiar to comic fans as that of Jack Kirby, Bob Kane or other artists whose superhero creations still entertain millions. But Caniff, who rose to fame [...]
Content from LIFE becomes available on Jan 25—free for all players!
ZiMAD, a mobile game developer, has announced a partnership with LIFE, the world-renowned magazine. In its first [...]
The most famous story in the Aug. 8, 1949 issue of LIFE magazine introduced America to an artist named Jackson Pollock, posing the question, “Is this the most famous living painter in the [...]
In 1959 the first Disney theme park, which had opened to great fanfare in 1955, was already an international sensation. When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. that year and was in [...]
The musical Hello, Dolly! made its Broadway debut in 1964 and was an instant smash with Carol Channing in the title role. Three years later, when ticket sales were starting to slump, producer David [...]
James Beard’s name is well familiar to anyone who follows the world of fine dining. His non-profit James Beard Foundation bestows annual awards to restaurants and chefs, and when the honorees [...]
