Monday, September 14, 2020
Hold Still
People of all ages, from across the UK, were invited to submit a photographic portrait which they had taken during lockdown.
Friday, September 11, 2020
Stand Here
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, shows his Croatian counterpart, Zoran Milanović, where to stand during a welcoming ceremony at Bellevue Palace
Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images
Brussels, Belgium
Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner outside the European Union headquarters to protest against the ongoing damage to the Amazon rainforest.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Oregon wildfires
Robin Loznak/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock
Wearing the respirator masks they have used during the pandemic, Mairead Milan and her boyfriend, Alex Loznak, pause for a portrait while heavy smoke from nearby wildfires shrouds the countryside near Elkton in rural western Oregon
On Hot Days, Asphalt Can Release as Much Air Pollution as Cars
The study, published by a team of Yale researchers, reveals that asphalt is likely an overlooked but major source of hazardous pollutants being released into the air.
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Monday, September 7, 2020
What is the most prescient science fiction film?
It also extrapolates how these paradigm shifts might affect us dumb meatbags.
But could anyone have predicted how the internet would rewire our minds? The 1990s felt packed with cyber-thrillers clearly jazzed by this new era of interconnectivity. But most were hung up on visualising it via fancy goggles, such as Keanu Reeves in 1995’s Johnny Mnemonic, stumbling through the mean streets of 2021 New Jersey with 320 gigabytes of hot data sloshing round his head.
Some sci-fi films are fortuitously prophetic – Akira predicted that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics would be cancelled back in 1988 – but others really work at it. In 1999, Steven Spielberg assembled a nerd herd of futurists and asked them to imagine what Washington DC would be like 50 years hence. The results were pumped into 2002’s Minority Report, which went big on yet more driverless cars, invasive advertising and gesture-controlled tech. Even if the precognitive crime prevention stuff was a bit woolly, Minority Report’s vision of 2054 still feels textured and lived-in.
But is there an even more prescient sci-fi film?
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