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Saturday, January 28, 2023

One of the best vineyards in the world is located in Uruguay and it is also free of phylloxera

Phylloxeras attachment to leaf close to grapes in one of America's vineyards

The devastation caused by phylloxera on this unsuspecting vineyard

A Tuscan vineyard landscape hoping to remain free from the phylloxera infestation

A close look at how the phylloxeras spread all over a leaf close to a vineyard in Chile

Science & Technology

The notoriously dangerous Phylloxera

The 19th century vine devastation

Carlo Di Litta resting comfortably on his sofa wearing a sweater that has an image of the cover of his book "Cosa Nascondono I Nostri Governi?"

Science & Technology

Close Encounter with Carlo Di Litta

Ufo-Alien reality

RSA is used as an encryption scheme and digital signature in things like email, website messages, chat applications and many other types of communications where you want to protect the message

Science & Technology

Breaking RSA with a quantum computer

Why we need quantum-resistant cryptography algorithms

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock was suspended by his political party over his role in a reality TV show

Economy & Politics

The black sheep of the jungle

How UK politician Matt Hancock transformed infidelity and Covid lockdown breaches into a £400,000 Reality TV deal

On the Street

John Ruskin

An interview with Rebecca Lipkin

A new perspective on John Ruskin and Rose La Touche

Anxiety and depression disorders

Anxiety and depression disorders

Traditional Chinese Medicine Approach

The Incredibles 2

The Incredibles 2

All of the hype but none of the magic of the first movie

A choice of juice

Drinking your food

What happened after 1 week of Juicing

Time flies

Entering the Last Year of My 30s

Are the happiest girls the prettiest girls?

A garden is my house

A marvellous coexistence among nature, houses and human beings

Architecture & Design

A vertical village, a new project in New Delhi, India

The rise of the village

Preserving the social fabric of village living on a high-rise mode

Contrast of wild and city life

Architecture in the retrofitting revolution

A highly innovative approach to environmentally conscious construction

Art

Makeup artist Kannan Raajamanickam

The makeup world of Kannan Raajamanickam

So perfect that it should be illegal!

The End by Xiang Jing, OCAT, Shenzhen

Sculptures of mercy and change

Three memories from OCAT Biennial, Shenzhen China

Culture

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She wrote fiction about contemporary issues in the Black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

Reflections of a colored girl

Beginning the stories

Put the pen to paper to tell your stories

A synopsis of a life

Stories of my life and times

Economy & Politics

UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher graciously accepting her party's victory in 1979

How Margaret Thatcher was the original Spice Girl

The Iron Lady's "Girl Power"

Earth has become a global force and all countries should connect

(Inter)dependency

How being dependent on one another is the best recipe for peace

Entertainment

Health care worker Conceição de Maria - SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde - Brazilian public health)

Out of Breath, the film

A documentary on the struggles of public health workers during the pandemic in Brazil

“Gilmore Girls”, the story of a single mom “Lorelei Gilmore” and her teenage daughter “Rory Gilmore” living in a small, beautiful town named “Stars Hollow”

Five TV series suggestions to cozy up this winter

From "Gilmore Girls" to the "Queen's gambit"

Fashion

Mary Quant exhibition, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo © Alma Reyes

The legend of Mary Quant

Swinging London as it lives today

Moroccan fashion designer Albert Oiknine is known for having his outfits worn by several renowned celebrities

Fashion designer Albert Oiknine impresses the world

Oiknine family is his source of inspiration

Feature

Parc Güell, Barcelona, Spain

A familiar encounter

What is it exactly that lets us trust strangers?

Amina Benbouchta, Untitled (Black Heart), 2013

Echoes of the heart

A semi-biographical fictional poetic opera

Food & Wine

The roaring firewood

Culture and cooking fuels

The predominance of firewood

Cow looking sideways

The cow is not your mom

The risks of consuming dairy

Science & Technology

A strand of DNA

What is single-base editing?

How it may cure leukemia and other diseases

$Math students at Maurice J. Tobin School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA celebrate 'Pi Day' in March, forming a human Pi symbol$

What exactly is Pi (π)?

Why is it so mysterious?

Sport

Bangladesh people supporting Argentina's football team, during FIFA World Cup 2022

Soccer: Argentina and Bangladesh

The magical connection

2022 FIFA Football World Cup, Qatar

The secret to football supremacy

Recruiting managers, coaches and football experts for the next FIFA Football World Cup

Travel

A man fishing on the Mekong River in Laos as the sun sets

Crossing the Mekong River in Laos

With the help of my elephant tour guide

Pema Khandu minister riding a motorbike in the mountains of India

Pema Khandu: India’s avant-garde mountain biking minister

Pioneering advocate of adventure tourism

Wellness

A married couple no longer able to look each other in the eye

Saving a marriage

The struggles of relationships

Without change, a caterpillar would never become a butterfly

When we ignore the changes

Neutralization of contradictions

Explore the Calendar

Worldwide Bern Chicago Oshkosh Leipzig London Kobarid Tallinn Bloomington Munich Prague Edinburgh Lisbon Krakow Vienna Stuttgart Philadelphia Hamburg Berlin San Francisco Brussels New York Zurich

Jessica Drenk, Immutable Ice 6. Courtesy of Heather Gaudio Fine Art

Jessica Drenk. Reclaimed topographies

28 Jan — 11 Mar 2023 at the Heather Gaudio Fine Art in New Canaan, United States

Fahren Feingold, One love. Courtesy of The Untitled Space Gallery

Fahren Feingold. Living for love

30 Jan — 8 Feb 2023 at The Untitled Space in New York, United States

Sharjah Biennial 4. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 15. Thinking historically in the present

7 Feb — 11 Jun 2023 at the Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Tim Nighswander, Yellow Tulip. Courtesy of Elisa Contemporary Art Gallery

Leaves and petals

14 Dec — 29 Mar 2023 at the Elisa Contemporary Art in Riverdale, United States

Aesthetics of Change. Courtesy of MAK

Aesthetics of Change

15 Dec 2107 — 15 Apr 2018 at the MAK in Vienna, Austria

Feni Chulumanco, Disciplined Family. Courtesy of Osart Gallery

Feni Chulumanco. Behind the walls

27 Jan — 11 Mar 2023 at the Osart Gallery in Milan, Italy

Lucy May Schofield, Sanguine Mood. Courtesy of Gallagher & Turner Gallery

Lucy May Schofield. In pursuit of pleasure

27 Jan — 4 Mar 2023 at Gallagher & Turner in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Markus Huemer, Eiswolle ist ein Frostschutz Ice Wool Is an Antifreeze / Ice Wool Is an Antifreeze. Courtesy of Ileana Tounta Gallery

Markus Huemer. Anything is better than the truth

26 Jan — 24 Mar 2023 at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece

Hannah Fitz, Pinocchio’s Bitter End (Lying Knows What Eye Nose Knot). Courtesy of Kerlin Gallery

Hannah Fitz. Lookieloo

20 Jan — 25 Feb 2023 at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin, Ireland

Zayn Qahtani, Demon Dance, photo by Jonathan Bassett. Courtesy of Vitrine Fitzrovia Gallery

Zayn Qahtani. Angels in purgatory

20 Jan — 8 Apr 2023 at Vitrine Fitzrovia in London, United Kingdom

Ludovica Gioscia, Follicle Symphony. Courtesy of Vitrine Fitzrovia Gallery

Ludovica Gioscia. Follicle symphony

20 Jan — 8 Apr 2023 at Vitrine Fitzrovia in London, United Kingdom

William Morris, re: memory. Courtesy of Bruno David Gallery

William Morris. Re: memory

20 Jan — 4 Mar 2023 at the Bruno David Gallery in St Louis, United States

Lily Hollinden, Clown With A Shark Tooth Earring. Courtesy of Bruno David Gallery

Lily Hollinden. Funny because it’s true

20 Jan — 3 Apr 2023 at the Bruno David Gallery in St Louis, United States

Ben Brough, The waiting is the hardest part. Courtesy of Bruno David Gallery

Ben Brough. Hours of forever

20 Jan — 4 Mar 2023 at the Bruno David Gallery in St Louis, United States

Alex Katz. Courtesy of New River Fine Art

Alex Katz. In Good Company

20 Jan — 19 Feb 2023 at the New River Fine Art in Fort Lauderdale, United States

Kora Moya Rojo, Tu Perfume Rosa, Ave Suntuosa, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120x100 cm

Yourself in my shoes

18 Jan — 18 Feb 2023 at the Tube Culture Hall Gallery in Milan, Italy

Peter Frederiksen, Coward. Courtesy of The Flat Gallery

Peter Frederiksen. Coward

17 Jan — 11 Mar 2023 at The Flat in Milan, Italy

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