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Ellie, 2022 - by Philippe Pache (1961), Swiss

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A newly developed system transforms human waste into a powerful tool for profitable and sustainable energy and agriculture in resource-limited regions. The prototype, outlined in a Stanford-led study published in Nature Water, recovers a valuable fertilizer from urine, using solar energy that can also provide power for other uses. In the process, the system provides essential sanitation, making wastewater safer to discharge or reuse for irrigation.

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{2018} from electric dreams, a series of animated digital collages [found footage (lidiya ishimbayeva & boris nirenburg, {1968} солярис (solaris); vortex), gimp]

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Researchers have discovered eight new genes associated with schizophrenia, in the largest exome-sequencing study of the disorder ever conducted. The breakthrough, made by scientists at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) at Cardiff University, provides new information and improves the understanding and future treatment development for schizophrenia. The paper titled "Whole-exome sequencing analysis identifies risk genes for schizophrenia" is published in Nature Communications.

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Syncopated

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Benedykt Jerzy Dorys (Polish, 1901 - 1990)

Jadwiga Smosarska. 1931

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Illustration by Jesse Draxler featuring Lorde for The New York Times

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Blurred Sitting Nude, Erwin Blumenfeld, c. 1944

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Nude, Photo by Yvonne Chevalier, 1929

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Imogen Cunningham       Helen       1928

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"Dall'istante in cui cercai di giocare contro me stesso, cominciai inconsapevolmente a sfidarmi. Enrambi i miei lo, il mio Io nero e il mio lo bianco, dovevano competere l'uno contro l'altro e ognuno per la sua parte divenne preda dell'ambizione, dell'impazienza a imporsi, a vincere; dopo ogni mossa, da Io nero agognavo di vedere cosa a quel punto avrebbe fatto l'Io bianco. Ciascuno dei miei due io provava un senso di trionfo quando l'altro sbagliava, e allo stesso tempo si esacerbava per la propria imperizia..."

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Christopher Isherwood, August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986.

With W. H. Auden in 1938.

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Nan Martin, Jones Beach, NY, Glamour, 1950. Frances McLaughlin-Gill. Gelatin silver print.

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The art of Vivian Maier. Unknown during her life, but one of the greatest of American 20th-century street photographers. And, really, you can just pluck "street" out of the preceding sentence.

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Postman Delivering Mail on a Rural Mail Route

Record Group 33: Records of the Extension ServiceSeries: Photographs of Extension Service Activities and Personnel

A mailman leans out of an old fashioned car and hands a letter to a woman at the side of the road.

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Temperatures reached 100.8 degrees as children cooled off with sprinklers on August 26, 1948.

Photo: Paul Bernius for the New York Daily News

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Konstantin Petrov, an immigrant from Estonia, was a night-shift electrician who worked at the World Trade Center’s “Windows on the World” restaurant, located at the top of the North Tower. This unique position, and his work schedule, allowed him to capture hundreds of digital photographs of the Twin Towers’ interiors during the summer of 2001.

Petrov worked at night after the offices had closed, and the lack of people in his photos gives them a haunting, “liminal” quality. He captured the mundane and the magnificent: empty offices, stairwells, and elevator fixtures, as well as the stunning panoramic views of New York City at dawn. His photos offer a last, intimate look inside the iconic buildings before they were destroyed.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Petrov finished his shift and was leaving the building’s basement parking lot in his car around 8:30 a.m. when the first plane struck the tower. He only saw debris and didn’t realize the gravity of what had happened until he got home and saw the news. He had narrowly escaped the tragedy.

Tragically, Konstantin Petrov died in a motorcycle accident in Manhattan a year later, in 2002. His photos, which he had uploaded to an Estonian website called Fotki, were later discovered by a documentary filmmaker in 2014, bringing his work to a wider audience and solidifying his legacy as the person who captured some of the last and most detailed internal views of the World Trade Center.

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