Prince Philip was known for being one of the most gaffe-prone members of the British Royal Family, and wasn’t shy of expressing his uncensored and often politically incorrect opinions on a variety of subjects.
While his son, King Charles, 75, might not display his father’s ‘dontopedalogy’ – which Philip himself described as ‘the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practised for a good many years…’ – it’s clear the
TUCSON — Hot and dry air, perfused with a scent reminiscent of a warmed hair straightener, stuffed a hangar-sized room beneath the football stadium at the University of Arizona. The space, part of the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, was dominated by a gyrating, carousel-sized furnace, fire truck red and shaped like a flying saucer. The swirling cocoon of a colossal light collector.
“It’s making 4.9 revolutions per minute,” says astronomer Buell Januzzi of the University of Arizona, raising his
Across the St. Lawrence River from downtown Montreal, an ethereal and monumental sphere can be seen rising from the sloping topography of St. Helen’s Island. Originally completed as the US pavilion for the International and Universal Exposition held there in 1967, the design of this geodesic dome has been recognized for decades as the crowning achievement of R. Buckminster Fuller. The dome embodies several of the mathematical principles expounded
While in Italy last year to install her multimedia work “Sex” (2021) at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, the German artist Anne Imhof came across an abandoned seven-floor office complex, built in the 1970s, in the Parella neighborhood of Turin. She was captivated by the fat bubble letters of the graffiti that decorated its smoked glass walls, as well as the tags etched into its filthy surface. Over the past decade, Imhof has made a name for
