The New School, a contemporary project that is set to make history in Denmark.

Designed by Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen, the New School will be the first Nordic Swan Ecolabel primary school in the country. 

 This distinction means the building will meet strict environmental standards; to help make that possible, the building was completed in collaboration with SKALA Architects, ETN Arkitekter, MOE, Autens, and BO-HUS. A massive walkable roof is one way that the school merges architecture with landscape and connects to the local community. The building dips down to allow the public access to the roof, which is covered in greenery. Since the design is surrounded by nature and can be entered on multiple sides, many of the programs within the school can be directly accessed from the outdoors like a campus—as opposed to a giant school building. 

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Another Planet. Fran Rubia.

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In the belly of a jelly!

Ian Watkin was out for an early morning stroll with his dog when came across the alien-looking creature on Harlyn Bay Beach in Padstow on Wednesday. The bizarre discovery showed a Compass jellyfish washed up on the shore with a clearly visible fish stuck inside it.

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This cave lion cub died 28,000 years ago.

Nicknamed Sparta, the animal was preserved in permafrost and, according to scientists, "is probably the best preserved Ice Age animal ever found, and is more or less undamaged apart from the fur being a bit ruffled." 

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Nymphalidae, Steeven Salvat

History, science, and nature converge in the watercolor and ink drawings of French artist Steeven Salvat. Whether encasing beetles in ornate armor, rotational gears, and antique dials or rendering vast entanglements of flora and fauna, Salvat’s works exquisitely apply a fanciful veil to wildlife and insects. Each piece, which is the result of hundreds of hours of painstaking linework, stems from biological studies and 18th-century engravings, two themes the artist returns to as a way to allude to the precious qualities of the natural world.

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Nature of Things, Guno Park

Brooklyn-based artist Guno Park evokes the tradition of memento mori with an exquisite new drawing highlighting the precarious line between life and death. 

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Ghost world, Oliver Jeffers

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Munchausen by Internet

With 15m people in England alone living with a long-term condition, and numbers rising, it’s no surprise the chronically ill community has exploded online in the last few years.

 Celebrities like Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez and Lena Dunham are opening up about their conditions, and chronic illness influencers are attracting huge social media followings. But as visibility has grown, so have accusations of fakery. 

A new BBC documentary, Sickness & Lies, explores whether the accusers are right.

 Are some influencers faking illnesses for fame, money and attention?

 Journalist Octavia Woodward, who is disabled herself, meets both accusers and their targets, and discovers a new condition, Munchausens by Internet, describing people who fake illnesses online - with sometimes fatal results.

 

Psychopaths make up 4.5% of the adult population, according to a new meta-analysis

A meta-analysis conducted by researchers at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain estimates the "prevalence rate of psychopathy in the general adult population at 4.5%."

 The rate is higher in males and lower in females. It found that "psychopathy levels are higher in North American male and female prisoners than in European male and female prisoners." 

 The paper also listed occupations most likely and least likely to be filled by psychopaths: 

 In the United Kingdom, the 10 professions with the highest levels of psychopathic traits were company CEOs, lawyers, radio or television characters, salespersons, surgeons, journalists, priests, police officers, chefs, and civil servants. On the other hand, the 10 professions with the lowest levels of psychopathic traits were social-health assistants, nurses, therapists, artisans, stylists, charity workers, teachers, creative artists, physicians, and accountants.

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Shadow and Light

Photo by Ali Alsulaiman.

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Flamingos, Pascal Guyot

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Croatia celebrates Victory & Homeland Thanksgiving Day for 26th time

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Goodbyes are Inevitable

Personal Message

 

She loves me not.

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The Bra Dilemma

“Now that things are opening up, I’m learning that you either wear a bra as a top or you don’t wear one at all.”

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After the Jump, Erin Brooks

The winners of the 14th Annual Photography Awards were announced. 

Here are the recipients of the Photographer of the year award.

 

High dream

Veri Apriyatno

 

Get lost

[new lyrics for old songs]

 

New Zealand commission launches inquiry into ‘massive human rights failure’ on housing

New Zealand currently has the lowest number of houses available for sale in 14 years, combined with the highest average asking price on record, according to the July 2021 market report from Realestate.co.nz.

 There were just 12,684 homes up for sale across the country, down 34.8% from July 2020, the report found. The national average asking price hit an all-time high of $893,794. Auckland is now considered one of the world’s least affordable housing markets, with median house prices about 10 times median income. New Zealand’s housing affordability crisis has been building for over a decade, and worsened significantly through the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Existing problems with affordability, high costs of materials and regulations constraining urban supply have been compounded by ultra-low interest rates, and a faster-than-expected economic recovery from the pandemic. Years of tax-free capital gains also helped to create an investor market that often prices out owner-occupiers. 

 Last year, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha, visited New Zealand and called the housing situation there “a human rights crisis” and “a dark shadow that hangs over the country”.

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Nomad’s Pad

Are you considering a trip to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon?

 Nomad's Pad is a new glass pyramid that might be right for you! 

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Morning Hour, CW Ye

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The enigma of Europe's largest active volcano

WWhen we think of Italy's volcanoes, we may assume that Etna, which overshadows Sicily, and Vesuvius, which famously destroyed Pompei, present the biggest danger to the peninsula's population and tourists. Yet there is another monster that could wreak havoc to the southern peninsula and its islands. Its name is Marsili, and it is located around 175km (110 miles) south of Naples.

 With a height of 3,000m (9,800ft), and a base 70km long by 30km wide (43 by 19 miles), Marsili is a true giant. It is the largest active volcano in the whole of Europe. You won't ever see it, however, since its peak is 500m (1,640ft) under water, in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

 Scientists have known of Marsili's existence for a century, but it is only within the last decade that they have started to investigate the dangers that Marsili might pose – and their findings are concerning. According to some recent models, its activity could potentially trigger an enormous tsunami, with a 30m-high (98ft) wave hitting Calabrian and Sicilian coasts. 

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Sometimes I remember events that never happened

Fang Tong