Art · Society · Reportage
🇮🇱 The backstory to the jury's April resignation has come to light. On the eve of it, Belu-Simion Fainaru, artist and commissioner of the Israeli pavilion, sent the foundation a legal notice, construing the jury's declaration as antisemitism and discrimination on grounds of nationality. In other
The East · Science · Society · People
In 2022 a Swiss programmer from Lausanne, Solal Pirelli, while going through the proceedings of conferences held under the aegis of the Association for Computing Machinery, discovered systematic anomalies in volumes published under the chairmanship of the Jordanian computer scientist Shadi Aljawarneh of the Jordan University of Science and Technology.
Archive · Society
Photograph by Anatoly Morozov, 9 May 1945
NB! · Archive · Society
Smashed German equipment in Sevastopol, May 1944. Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei
Observations · Society
The Germans, of course, might be reminded that the Soviet Victory Banner and the hammer and sickle are the chief reason why Berlin today is not decked with swastikas. The authorities explained this by the need to prevent political provocations and to maintain public order. Even if the restrictions legally
Architecture · Observations · Society
1906 in Russia was, frankly, a bad year. Especially for self-presentation abroad. In January the first attempt at revolution was bleeding out. The country had not yet recovered from Bloody Sunday, the mutiny on the Potemkin, the December fighting on the Presnya, the dreadful Treaty of Portsmouth and the
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The East · London · Museums · Society
On a panel about the Hyksos people of the 17th–16th centuries BC, the wording Palestinian descent has been replaced with Canaanite descent, and similar amendments have been made in the gallery of Egyptian sculpture. The changes followed a letter from the British lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel, which
Cinema · London · Society · Nature
Hugh Thomson has made a documentary about it, Our Land, the premise of which is that in England and Wales 92% of the land is closed to public access, and local residents often cannot freely walk through the woods around their own village. In Scotland, a reform of 2003 opened
Archive · Cinema · Moscow · Society
The fire was not in the building of the Savvinskoye Compound itself, but in the studio of Alexandr Khanzhonkov, the man who filmed "The Defence of Sevastopol" and "The Beautiful Lukanida". The studio stood in the courtyard of the compound as a separate pavilion. It was
Science · Society · People
The US Office of Research Integrity has officially announced a 15-year ban on federal funding for the chemist Ariel Fernandez, a former professor at Rice University. The investigation, begun in 2009 on a tip from his own graduate student, lasted 17 years. Fernandez stands accused of fabricating data in
Archaeology · Heritage · Society · Nature · Ethnography
The Las Playas Intaglio is a sacred geoglyph in the shape of a fish, laid out on the desert surface in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in south-western Arizona. The full length of the figure is about 83 metres. The contractor's heavy construction machinery ran across