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Bumblebee Queens Breathe Underwater to Survive Drowning, Revealing How They Can Live Submerged for a Week
After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible Source link
Read MoreHow BUTTER’s Founders Are Rethinking the Economics of the Art Fair
Alan Bacon and Malina Simone Jeffers. Courtesy BUTTER Fine Art Fair In a pay-to-play art-fair ecosystem largely designed to keep galleries coming back and collectors entertained, new fairs looking to gain a foothold can’t stray far from the traditional model. But the founders of BUTTER Fine Art Fair didn’t want to play the game as…
Read MoreWould You Jump Into Your Local River? Swimmable Cities May Be Within Reach as Once-Polluted Waterways Are Restored
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Efforts to improve the “swimmability” of urban areas are gaining global traction, from Paris to Chicago Source link
Read MoreHanging by a Thread: Inside the Death-Defying World of Rappel Graffiti
RAMS at work on a piece 700 feet atop 161 Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan. Photo courtesy RAMS A woman stared out her window across a narrow Giza street, watching a figure dressed in black suspended from a rope apply silver paint to a brick wall a half dozen stories up. It was 3:30 a.m.,…
Read MoreThe 2026 Whitney Biennial Delivers American Art for a Fractured Age
The 2026 Whitney Biennial 2026 runs through August. Darian DiCianno/BFA.com If the Whitney Biennial takes the temperature of American art—and of the society that produces it—the cacophony of fragments, relics and semi-fictional or dystopian allusions in this edition captures the fractured sense of reality and dissociation defining the present moment, as the great narratives that…
Read MoreHow Harry Styles Became the Most Watched Man in Fashion: His Style Evolution
Before he was the first man to appear solo on the cover of American Vogue, Harry Edward Styles was a teenager working the register at the W Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire—a village so small that when fans started showing up by the thousands a decade later, the local council had to hire tour…
Read MoreCan Copyright Survive the Age of A.I.?
In classrooms and courtrooms alike, the future of copyright is being negotiated in real time. Unsplash+ Think about your favorite song, movie or musical. Then consider how you enjoy, watch, listen or engage with that content. The answer? Copyright. Copyright has not disappeared in the age of A.I., but it is being stress-tested in novel…
Read MoreIn the World's Best Place to See Wild Jaguars, Residents Are Using the Big Cat's Appeal to Reach Conservation Goals
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Brazil’s Pantanal region has the highest jaguar density on Earth, drawing camera-toting visitors to its riverbanks. Despite overtourism concerns, one enclave may offer a model for how to protect the charismatic apex predator Source link
Read MoreSam Altman Caught in Fallout From Dario Amodei’s Pentagon Standoff
Sam Altman’s Pentagon pact tests OpenAI’s public standing as critics rally behind Anthropic. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images Sure, Sam Altman managed to secure an agreement between OpenAI and the U.S. Department of War amid Anthropic’s public battles with the agency. But in doing so, he may have forfeited something more valuable: public goodwill. The…
Read MoreAs ADHD Coaching Gains Popularity, Researchers Stress the Importance of Careful Vetting
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A recent survey highlights variation in the training credentials and experience across the burgeoning industry, which is mostly unregulated and unlicensed Source link
Read MoreBlock, A.I. and the Front-Running of the Curve
The rise of the temporal agentic operating system could redefine how companies structure human labor. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images When Jack Dorsey announced last week that Block—the parent company of Square, Cash App and Afterpay—would cut its workforce by 40 percent, axing more than 4,000 jobs and reducing its headcount to less than 6,000,…
Read MoreThe Gospel of More, According to the Late Iris Apfel
No one wore a more iconic set of spectacles—those oversized black circles, thick as porthole frames, perched on a face that refused to fade into the background for 102 years. Then the wrists, stacked to the elbow with Bakelite and bone and carved wood and whatever else she had pulled from a Marrakech souk or…
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