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Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto by Andrew Benjamin
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have already produced a body of work that has exerted great influence on the practice of contemporary...
Guide to Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland, Ohio
Less than 50 years ago Cuyahoga Valley National Park was a sprawling community of farms and small-scale factories in the Cuyahoga Valley. Thanks to...
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto by Andrew Benjamin
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have already produced a body of work that...
Hybrid Qubits Solve Key Hurdle To Quantum Computing
Spin-based quantum computers have the potential to tackle difficult mathematical problems that cannot...
Dulcie and Sarah from Two Tarts
It is run by Dulcie Wilcox and Sarah Welle, two friends with a...
Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions by Emily Gordon
A swarm of biotechnological robot drones defends a fragile Eden from invasive species....
Hal Foster’s The Art-Architecture Complex by Carlos Brillembourg
“Building contra Image,” an extensive interview with Richard Serra that Hal Foster includes...
Jesús Tenreiro-Degwitz by Carlos Brillembourg
Jesús Tenreiro-Degwitz and I “spoke” via email from fall 2001 to late summer...
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Dulcie and Sarah from Two Tarts
It is run by Dulcie Wilcox and Sarah Welle, two friends with a shared passion for cooking and photography. When you visit...
Customizing Computer-Aided Design
MIT researchers have devised a technique that “reverse engineers” complex 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) models, making them far easier for users to...
Fruit and Vegetable Juice: How Food Affects Health
Fruit juices may seem like nutritious sources of vitamins and minerals, but they are super-concentrated in naturally occurring sugar. And commercial...
What to see in Hiroshima and the Setouchi Region, Japan
The only place in Japan’s Setouchi region that will be familiar to most is Hiroshima, the city destroyed by the first...
Health Benefits of Beans
The old children’s rhyme was right: beans ARE good for your heart. So are lentils and other nutritious legumes, which are...
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Avoid the crowds at the Antelope Canyon in Arizona and visit...
The Navajo Sandstone curved like flowing water. The narrow passage snaked like a meandering stream while above me the blue sky peeked...
Even Out Your Mood With Food
It’s possible to beat back the blues — or an attack of the grumpies — by watching what (and when!) you...
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A movie montage for modern artificial intelligence might show a computer playing millions of games of chess or Go against itself to learn how to win. Now, researchers are exploring how the reinforcement learning technique that helped DeepMind’s...
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Kiddie see, kiddie do.
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Oh my kale! What’s the craze all about? Well, this green, leafy vegetable is referred to as a superfood for a reason: It’s packed with vitamins (A, C, and K), minerals (magnesium and potassium), and antioxidants (lutein and...