In the vast underground office of Lumon, the megacorporation at the heart of Apple TV Plus’ thriller Severance, the computers are downright bizarre. At first they look a bit like an old Mac, but the closer you look, the more strange they become. The CRT display is somehow a touchscreen. https://ift.tt/MECcWiw The weird computers and […]
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Entre les constructions modernes, si mal conçues qu’elles ne deviendront jamais des ruines et les constructions écologiques qui se réinventent ou disparaissent, nous pourrions ne plus léguer à nos descendants de ruines de notre temps. « L’écologie radicale et le capitalisme font des ruines des objets honteux, désuets, impossibles »
« Nous sommes si nombreux à avoir grandi pendant cette étrange période de transition des années 2000. On était confrontés à des trucs qui avaient mal vieilli, de vieilles choses restées presque inchangées, non entretenues, et des bâtiments non rénovés », explique-t-il. The Backrooms : l’image d’un bureau glauque retourne tout Internet
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Buried in forest litter or sprouting from trees, fungi might give the impression of being silent and relatively self-contained organisms, but a new study suggests they may be champignon communicators. Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims
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To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. When I heard the news that my mother had suffered a stroke, the feeling that surfaced wasn’t despair, but an impulse to problem solve. Ambient Music Isn’t a Backdrop. It’s an Invitation to Suspend Time.
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After moving to Los Angeles, Dan Erickson worked a boring desk job in “a tiny, windowless office.” One morning while on his commute, he did something that terrified him. Severance reveals the “scary” and “surreal” underbelly of office work in 2022
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Danila Tkachenko (b. 1989) is a Russian visual artist, specializing in the field of documentary photography. He is known for winning the World Press Photo prize for his series Escape. This is how hermits live in the Russian wilderness
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Russian troops descended on the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in northern Ukraine. The defunct power plant—still undergoing cleanup and decommissioning—was overtaken by the invaders and the employees held hostage. Chernobyl’s Strange Black Fungi Have a Superpower
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My family go to a local Catholic church where, to my wild schoolboy excitement, Leeds United players regularly attend mass. Sightings of Billy Bremner, Eddie Gray, Terry Yorath – tie-knots as wide as their trouser flares – are the real religious experience for me. The day I thwarted Jimmy Savile: Mark Lawson on trying to
The trees here tower a hundred feet above the forest floor — a ceiling as high as in prehistory and vanishingly rare today. That’s because no logger’s axe has ever touched these woods. The ‘Lost Forty’: how a mapping error preserved an old-growth forest
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