Tag: Landscape

‘Flavorama’ guides readers through the complex landscape of flavor

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Flavorama
Arielle Johnson
Harvest, $40.00

What gives a lemon its lemoniness? It’s the physical molecules within the fruit. A bite into a lemon wedge sends citric acid molecules and other compounds to the tongue and through the nose, a one-two punch of the sour taste and citrusy scent that the brain senses as lemony.

Being a combination of taste and smell makes flavor a challenge for people who want to master it. There are five distinct tastes — salty, sour,

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Spectacular aerial images show how modern society has transformed the planet, leaving parts looking like an alien landscape, from Arizona to Australia

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These extraordinary aerial images, taken over a period of decades, show how modern society has transformed the planet, with industry leaving strangely beautiful marks that give some areas the appearance of an alien world. Others show natural landscapes that look like abstract paintings from above.

The transfixing pictures have been taken by world-renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, who has spent 45 years taking photos from a god-like perspective achieved by the use of helicopters, small jets, hydraulic poles, and

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The Divided Landscape of Indian American Politics

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You can tell that an ethnic group is really flourishing in the United States when they start to produce prominent xenophobes and racists, particularly of the anti-Black variety. The trajectory from victim to victimizer is one of the surest markers of upward social mobility. In 1993, Toni Morrison ruefully noted in Time magazine that assimilation means immigrants must join “freely in this most enduring and efficient rite of passage into American culture: negative appraisals of the native-born Black population.” In … Read more

Navigating The SEO Career Landscape: Degrees, Myths, And Realities

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In the dynamic realm of search engine optimization (SEO), my career spans nearly two decades, starting in 2004 when I started working for an agency and just two years later moved to in-house SEO for a large company.

Since then, I’ve held various in-house SEO roles at esteemed organizations, including Classmates.com, Concur, Smartsheet, ADP (usedcars.com), Nordstrom, Groupon, GitHub, and my most recent role at RingCentral – experiences which have deepened my understanding of the field and allowed me to shape

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Far, far away from the tourist trail: Inside the spectacular abandoned citadel in an otherworldly landscape that could be mistaken for Star Wars planet Tatooine

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Visitors could be forgiven for thinking it’s a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

For the abandoned citadel of Guermassa in Tunisia sits in an otherworldly landscape redolent of the environs of Star Wars’ Tatooine.

This is not a coincidence: nearby Tataouine city – the capital of the Tataouine Governate – provided the architectural inspiration for Luke Skywalker’s home planet, if not the shooting location (that’s Matmata, in the north east). 

Guermassa itself is the name of

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Landscape Explorer shows how much the American West has changed

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With the click of a mouse, a new mapping tool shows how places in the American West have changed over the last 70 years.

With just a Web browser, anyone can open Landscape Explorer, which will pull up a modern Google map of the United States beside a black-and-white aerial image of the western states circa 1950. A slider button allows for scrolling back and forth between past and present.

You can type a place or address into the search

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From an epic mountain in Tasmania to a beautiful Scottish loch: The stunning winners of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards (which bans the use of AI and ‘deceptive editing’)

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By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor

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The Natural Landscape Photography Awards competition was created to promote ‘the best landscape and nature photography by digital and film photographers who value realism in their work’.

Judging by the standard of this year’s winning and commended entries, it’s job done.

Over 11,000 photographs were submitted to the 2023 competition from 1,023 photographers living in 54 countries,

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Gewinner der Natural Landscape Photography Awards 2023

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Die Gewinnerbilder der zweiten jährlichen Natural Landscape Photography Awards wurden gerade bekannt gegeben. Der Wettbewerb wurde ins Leben gerufen, um „die allerbeste Landschaftsfotografie von Digital- und Filmfotografen zu fördern, die in ihrer Arbeit Wert auf Realismus und Authentizität legen“, wobei Regeln aufgestellt wurden, um betrügerische Bearbeitungstechniken zu verhindern. Mehr als 1.000 Fotografen aus 54 Ländern haben sich dieses Jahr angemeldet. Die Organisatoren des Wettbewerbs waren wieder einmal so freundlich, die Gewinner und Zweitplatzierten bekannt zu geben.

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Britain at its most spellbinding: The mesmerising winning shots in the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2023 contest, from misty hills to a magical full moon

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Britain’s landscapes can leave you awestruck.

That’s made clear by the stunning photographs that have earned prizes at the 2023 Landscape Photographer of the Year contest, an annual awards that ‘celebrates the wonder of the British landscape’.

‘The competition aims to inspire profound engagement with the British landscape through photography,’ a statement notes.

A shot of a lightning storm off the Hampshire coast, a picture of a wintry scene in the Yorkshire Dales, and an image of a ‘monster’ sea

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„Landscape With Invisible Hand“-Rezension: Ungleichmäßige Science-Fiction-Satire

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Hätten Greta Gerwig und David Lynch bei „Independence Day“ zusammengearbeitet, wäre das Ergebnis vielleicht „Landscape With Invisible Hand“ ähnlich gewesen, einer hinterlistig-subversiven Science-Fiction-Satire mit einem sinnlichen Kick.

Der von Autor und Regisseur Cory Finley nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von MT Anderson aus dem Jahr 2017 adaptierte Film greift das weitgereiste Genre der Alien-Invasion auf und dreht es schelmisch um, indem er zeitgemäße Kritik zu allem von autoritärer Herrschaft und Kolonialismus bis hin zu wirtschaftlicher Ungleichheit und sozialer Ungerechtigkeit übt .

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