Thursday, February 29, 2024
Never Quit
by Emma Beddington, pictures selected by Sarah Gilbert.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
American Games by John Brosio
With this latest body of work Brosio explores things like: UFO’s and their American Mythology, internet dating, video games, and the inevitability of facing mortality alone.
See more images from “American Games” here.
Glitch, Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein
Meet GUS, a tabletop companion that helps you harvest fresh mushrooms at home.
The breathable, low-fire ceramic helps to regulate the temperature while also maintaining a moist environment for the specimens to sprout.
Plus, GUS is modular and stackable, allowing for several varieties to be grown at once without taking up valuable countertop real estate.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
Bill Hicks wanted us to think for ourselves
Thirty years after his death, the Texan who set out to ‘topple idols’ remains an outlaw truth-teller for many but his raging material can land with a clunk.
Friday, February 23, 2024
EU countries could save 238,000 lives a year by meeting WHO air pollution guidelines
Approximately 238,000 air pollution deaths could be avoided each year if the EU27 countries actually met World Health Organization guidelines for air pollution, according to figures from the European Environment Agency. And more than 400,000 deaths could be avoided if particle air pollution could be avoided completely.
On 20 February the EU Council agreed new legislation for clean air for 2030 and beyond. As EU countries work towards these new legal limits, a new study has estimated the benefits that could quickly arise with reductions in air pollution from traffic and home heating.
Join or Die
“This is Bob. Bob is a big fan of clubs,” the narrator opens in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary Join or Die. “And this is a film about why you should join one and how Bob discovered that the fate of America depends on it.”
Bob, or Robert D. Putnam, is an acclaimed political scientist who has deeply influenced our understanding of how society and government work.
Directed and produced by Rebecca Davids and Pete Davis, Join or Die follows “the half-century story of America’s civic unraveling” through Putnam’s work and interviews with numerous influential figures like Hillary Clinton, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and scholar Eddie Glaude, Jr.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
He also composed the Oscar-winning score for the film The Last Emperor (1987). Some of his other notable film scores include: The Sheltering Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993), and The Revenant (2015).
Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer in June of 2014. He went into remission but sadly was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2021. He passed away last year at the age of 71.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda was directed by Stephen Nomura Schible and released in 2017.
This is a portrait of an artist and a level of artistry that we don’t see much anymore.
And watching it now, after his passing, feels even more important.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024
The strangers who saved each other’s lives
Marius (left) with Nick (right)
With an anonymous stem-cell donation, Marius Werner saved a British doctor's life - and, the young German says, it may have saved him too, giving him purpose when he had felt suicidal.
With a rare type of blood cancer, Dr Nick Embleton's only hope was a bone marrow transplant.
And unable to find a match in the UK, the search was extended worldwide.
Two years on, BBC News and charity Anthony Nolan help two "blood brothers" find each other for the first time.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
These Portraits of Senior Dogs Will Melt Your Heart
Her portraits of senior dogs are particularly meaningful, as they serve as important keepsakes for the owners.
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