Pictured are children who have made their First Holy Communion in Derry in 2024.
Wednesday, May 1 at 9 Humans are inherently social and throughout history our unique capacity for cooperation has set us apart. As we grow and evolve, the internal changes we enact have the potential to impact those around us, our broader communities and societies.
Wawa wasn't built in a day — but over two centuries plus. Here's a quick
Over at Substack, writer Cole Haddon (Psalms for the End of the World) digs into the strange relationship between hypermasculine 'Merican men and dressing up in drag. He touches briefly on the cross-dressing world of glam metal (particularly the uber-irony of Queen's existence within that oeuvre), but is much more interested in how the manliness of womanly dress manifested in the military: Female performers were rarely allowed near the fronts [during World War II]; members of the Women's Army...
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As summer intensifies, IMD warns of heatwave across multiple Indian states As summer arrives in full force, the India Meteorological Department has forecast a heatwave in several regions, including North Goa, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal.
In the summer of 1968, I was assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency’s task force on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The task force met around the clock in the CIA operations center, which was outfitted with myriad television screens. Most of these screens were showing the Soviet invasion. But several screens were devoted to the violence and mayhem on the streets of Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley’s police force was pummeling young people holding a protest rally against the...
The state wants to declare war on another invasive species — parakeets — that have been spreading disease, decimating native fruits, and stripping fruit trees on Kauai, among other harms.
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after October 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to Hamas More
After four days of great action which culminated in Scottie Scheffler’s victory, we take a look back at some of our favourite images from the first major of 2024 Continue reading
A selection of highlights from the ninth instalment of Photofairs Shanghai, the contemporary art fair for photographyShanghai Exhibition Centre | April 25-28, 2024 Continue reading