As kids, two Guinean brothers invented a new script for their native language. Now they’re trying to get it on every smartphone. Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 million people, weren’t working well. Fulani’s sounds were rendered impr
Not too long ago, a video of an Indonesian 2-year-old chain-smoking went viral. As the photo essay below shows, there are many children who smoke in Indonesia, and the industry remains largely unregulated. “Indonesia’s relationship with tobacco is complex,” said photographer Michelle Siu. “Cheap cigarettes, ubiquitous advertising, a powerful lobby with tight political connections, and lack of law
Nobody knows exactly how it happened, but somehow, between February 6, 1898, and February 7, 1898, the issue numbering for The New York Times got a little ... off. It's easy enough to imagine the scene: A worker, late at night, setting the paper's front-page type. He takes out the type from the preceding day's paper. He looks at the issue number—14,499—and adds one. He gets 15,000. Perhaps he misr
Smithsonian Magazine's Annual Photo Contest Alan Taylor March 1, 2012 25 Photos In Focus The editors of Smithsonian magazine have just announced the 50 finalists in their 9th annual photo contest. They've kindly allowed me to share several of the final contenders below, including some amazing images from each of the competition's five categories: Americana, The Natural World, People, Altered Image
It's called "Rhein II" and was photographed by Andreas Gursky, and it sold on Tuesday night for $4.3 million at Christie's. That easily broke the previous record set by Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" which sold at a $3.89 million price point in May. Gursky's photo is also the reason you should have become an art broker, like yesterday.
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