Category: General
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Brett Allen Johnson Harnesses the Glow of the American Southwest in Dreamy Oil Paintings
As though seared into our collective consciousness, some images of the American Southwest seem to fully embody its inhospitable terrain, mercurial weather, and intense, challenging beauty. One of these would most certainly be Edward Curtis’ dramatic 1904 photograph of the sacred Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “deh-shay”) in Arizona, featuring a string of Navajo riders on horseback, silhouetted…
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America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world could end in the next couple…
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Equal Earth • Political Wall Map
A world map for everyone The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14 times larger than Greenland as it actually is. And wherever you live, the map has you covered. Download a choice…
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Equal Earth • Physical Wall Map
A completely natural world map The Equal Earth Physical Map focuses on the natural world—terrain, rivers and lakes, vegetation, land cover, and the ocean floor—free of obscuring country boundaries. It is a companion piece for the Equal Earth Political Map. Because the map projection is equal-area, continents and oceans are shown at their true sizes relative…
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100 Best Movies of the 21st Century
More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since Jan. 1, 2000. Here is how their ballots stacked up.
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Genesis Albums From Worst To Best
Genesis’ loyal fans and outspoken critics love and hate the band for the exact same reasons. During their prime-era prog-rock run in the early ’70s, with Peter Gabriel as frontman, Genesis either represented the genre at its peak of bloat or expressiveness; during the ’80s, with Phil Collins on vocals, they were selling out stadiums…
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Il test di intelligenza più veloce del mondo (soltanto tre domande)
Prima domanda: la palla da baseball Una mazza e una palla da baseball costano in tutto 1,10 dollari. La mazza costa un dollaro più della palla. Quanto costa la palla? Seconda domanda: in fabbrica Se 5 macchine ci mettono 5 minuti a fabbricare 5 congegni, quanto tempo ci mettono 100 macchine a fabbricarne 100? Terza…
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Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of Scientific Thinking in America
Nearly 20 years later, we have reached that point. Under the second Trump administration, DOGE has rushed to dismantle the scientific infrastructure of our government, haphazardly cutting the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Next, they’re going after our leading research universities, intentionally weakening the research engine that has fueled the…
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Tina Merlin, la voce che denunciò i rischi del Vajont
Merlin, un’oscura corrispondente di provincia, era stata l’unica giornalista italiana a raccogliere le proteste degli abitanti di quelle zone durante la costruzione della grande diga a partire dal 1957 e a segnalarne poi ripetutamente i pericoli, tanto da meritarsi lo sprezzante nomignolo di “Cassandra del Vajont”.
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The No-BS Protest Art of the Anti-Trump Marches
In nationwide demonstrations this weekend, protesters left “Dump Trump” in 2016 and opted for cheekier and artistically inclined messaging.
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Con Trump una crisi transatlantica «senza precedenti»? Abbiamo dimenticato il 1971 di Nixon
Eichengreen pensa tutto il male possibile di Trump però ha il pregio di vedere gli eventi attuali in un arco lungo della storia. Un suo articolo sul Financial Times mi ha riportato alla memoria una crisi dell’alleanza transatlantica che anche allora fu vissuta come terminale, epocale, irrimediabile, definitiva. Risale a 54 anni fa, nientemeno.
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Nick Offerman calls out ‘homophobic hate’ against The Last of Us
“Thanks to HBO for having the guts to participate in this storytelling tradition that is truly independent. Stories with guts that when homophobic hate comes my way and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ We say, ‘Because you ask questions like that. It’s not a gay story it’s a love…
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La storia di Soumaila, fuggito dal Mali
Soumaila è un giovane attivista maliano quando nel 2012 un colpo di Stato sconvolge la sua vita e quella di altri 17 milioni di persone. La lotta per il potere porta a un lungo periodo di repressione e di persecuzione per chi si oppone al nuovo regime. Anche chi ha un passaporto valido e un…
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Trump announces new auto tariffs in a major trade war escalation
The move didn’t come as a huge surprise to automakers. An executive at one of the automakers, who spoke on background to CNN on Wednesday, said they had already been working with the assumption that auto tariffs would take effect next week. “We were all kind of expecting April 2 to be our day,” said…
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Keep the lights on or mine Bitcoin? How crypto is starting to suck up clean energy
To “mine” for digital currencies, powerful computers perform trillions of calculations per second. The more computer power miners have, the more profitable mining will be. This all adds up to huge amounts of electricity use. Where once Abkhazia was powered almost entirely by renewable hydropower, it’s now increasingly reliant on subsidized energy from Russia to help reduce…
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Plant and boys in the branches
Miniature of a plant and boys standing in the branches of a fruit tree picking fruit and thowing down to a woman standing below. From Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)
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Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)
Selections from a beautifully illustrated 15th century version of the “Tractatus de Herbis”, a book produced to help apothecaries and physicians from different linguistic backgrounds identify plants they used in their daily medical practice. No narrative text is present in this version, simply pictures and the names of each plant written in various languages –…
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Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
This 1462 Kräuterbuch (“Book of Herbs”) by Johannes Hartlieb enfolds, verbatim, much of Konrad von Megenberg’s Buch der Natur, published a century earlier and considered by scholars to be the first natural history written in German. (The Buch der Natur itself reworked herbals by Thomas of Cantimpré and Albert Magnus, who, in turn, borrowed heavily from Arabic botanical handbooks.) Unlike…
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Collater.al
Collater.al is a Web Magazine dedicated to contemporary creative culture and a Creative Studio specializing in consulting, creative direction and content production.
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Public Domain Image Archive
The Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA) — brought to you by The Public Domain Review (PDR) — is a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse. Our aim is to offer a platform that will serve both as a practical resource and a place to simply wander —…
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Criptovalute. Quali sono e come funzionano.
Che cosa sono le criptovalute Per capire meglio cosa sono le criptovalute – dette anche cripto – può venirci in soccorso anche una definizione di carattere linguistico. Il termine si compone infatti di due parole distinte: cripto, ossia legato al mondo della crittografia, e valuta. Possiamo quindi dire che sono delle monete virtuali (o anche “rappresentazioni digitali di valore”, come…