In a Dramatic About-Face, the Kunstmuseum Basel Will Compensate the Heirs of a Jewish Collector for Disputed Works in Its Collection
The Kunstmuseum Basel has had a change of heart. The Swiss museum had long defended its decision to purchase some…
New York City Is Empty, But Street Artists Are Still Working. Here’s How They’re Adapting Their Methods for Our Time
Like cities across the world, New York City has largely shut down, with the government ordering residents to practice social…
Coronavirus Relief: Cryptocurrency Aid Programs Launched to Combat Covid-19 Outbreak
Cryptocurrencies are being used to help fight the global coronavirus pandemic. Crypto companies are doing their part to provide coronavirus…
Tracking your location and targeted texts: how sharing your data could help in New Zealand’s level 4 lockdown
New Zealand and much of the world is now under an unprecedented lockdown. Public health experts say this is the…
MyGov’s ill-timed meltdown could have been avoided with ‘elastic computing’
DAN PELED/AAP These past few weeks have shown the brittleness of Australia’s online systems. It’s not surprising the federal government’s…
Privacy vs pandemic: government tracking of mobile phones could be a potent weapon against COVID-19
Borders, beaches, pubs and churches are closed, large events are cancelled, and travellers are subject to 14 days’ isolation –…
I studied what happens to reef fish after coral bleaching. What I saw still makes me nauseous
Victor Huertas, Author provided The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its third mass bleaching event in five years. It follows…
Here’s what the coronavirus pandemic can teach us about tackling climate change
Every aspect of our lives has been affected by the coronavirus. The global economy has slowed, people have retreated to…
New ways of ‘being together apart’ can work for us and the planet long after coronavirus crisis passes
Oxfam/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Most major corporate, academic and other networking events have been cancelled because of the risks of…
Cisco CML-P (VIRL 2): Download, Install and Configure (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of my CML-Personal (VIRL 2) series showing you how to download, install and configure Cisco Modeling…
Making Bitcoin Go Viral: Could Endless Printing Trigger a Hyperbitcoinization Event?
Hyperbitcoinization has been defined as “a state where bitcoin becomes the world’s dominant form of money.” But what actually needs…
The Sackler Saga Has Made It to Primetime TV. The Latest Episode of ‘The Blacklist’ Takes Aim at the Notorious Art-Collecting Family
The Sackler family probably won’t be thrilled about the latest episode of The Blacklist, the James Spader-starring crime thriller. The NBC…
Hotter weather brings more stress, depression and other mental health problems
Will a warmer world be more taxing on mental health? Bim/E+ via Getty Images The Research Brief is a short…
The Internet Can’t Get Enough of These Images of Masterpieces Devoid of People. Most Surprised by This Development? The Artist Behind Them
What if art history’s greatest masterpieces were, well, empty? In José Manuel Ballester’s series “Concealed Spaces,” he has created replicas…