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2 days ago · He admires Le Corbusier and, especially, Adolf Loos, but is made uncomfortable by the possibility that the astringency of their work might make people suffer when they don’t deserve to (unlike, for instance, concert or theatre audiences, who are fair game).
3 days ago · The naive explanation for the decline of ornament is that the people commissioning and designing buildings stopped wanting it, influenced by modernist ideas in art and design. In the language of economists, this is a demand-side explanation: it has to do with how buyers and designers want buildings to be. The demand-side explanation comes in ...
4 days ago · 5. Lene Hau. Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish scientist and educator who was born on November 13, 1959. She holds the Mallinckrodt Professorship of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. Cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates are the focus of Hau’s most recent research.
4 days ago · Wake Up and Dream by Ian R. MacLeod— This thriller is an alternate history of Hollywood. Hollywood, June 1944. Europe is still at war, with England about to fall to Hitler’s legions. In the United States, FDR readies a run for a third term as the fascist Liberty League gains ground across the land.
5 days ago · 1. Lago di Braies – The most photographed lake in the Dolomites. Lago di Braies, also known as Pragser Wildsee is one of the most beautiful and also most Instagrammable places in the Dolomites! No trip to South Tyrolis complete without paying a visit to this magical place.
2 days ago · Youssef is best known as the creator and star of “Ramy” on Hulu, which follows an Egyptian American family living in New Jersey as they navigate spirituality, money problems and political divides.
20 hours ago · The genus has a very complicated taxonomy and includes at least three valid species, the best known of which is A. fragilis. The bulk of Allosaurus remains have come from North America's Morrison Formation, with material also known from the Lourinhã Formation in Portugal.
