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two movies about the White House being overtaken by terrorists. Unfortunately, the overly serious
Olympus Has Fallen spawned a trilogy and the goofy, fun
White House Down did not.
It’s our loss, really. Only one of these movies has scenes where Channing Tatum pulls a gun on a squirrel, does donuts on the White House Lawn, and has a plucky daughter that saves the day in a scene too ridiculous to spoil here. It’s a ’90s throwback from the king of ’90s disaster schlock himself, Roland Emmerich and at the same time, weirdly prescient. Because the bad guys in White House Down aren’t foreign, but domestic. It, as they say, makes you think.
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Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her own medical journey inspired her research into, among other things, the way yew trees communicate chemically with neighboring trees for their mutual defense. Brendan George Ko/Penguin Random House
Trees are social creatures that communicate with each other in cooperative ways that hold lessons for humans, too, ecologist Suzanne Simard says.
Simard grew up in Canadian forests as a descendant of loggers before becoming a forestry ecologist. She s now a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia.
Palm Photo Prize announces its 2021 shortlist and exhibition dates
Following 7500 entries to the prize, this year’s shortlist showcases the breadth of the current photography scene.
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The Palm Photo Prize has long been a landmark event in the annual photography calendar. Often shining a light on who to watch in the scene, the team behind the prize today announced its shortlist for 2021. Following a free, open submission process for the whole of March, the chosen shortlist will be presented in an exhibition from 20 May – 30 August at 10 14, a new gallery from East Photographic.
There over 100 photographers chosen in this year’s shortlist. Showcasing a mix of portraiture and landscape works, as well as snippets from wider documentary projects, there is huge breadth to this year’s shortlist, selected from 7500 entries. There’s Brendan George Ko’s tender photograph of a group of butterflies for instance, through to the joy of a jump on a trampoline in a portrait by
Lesson of the Day: âKeeping Love Closeâ
What does love look like in a time of hate? In this lesson, students will analyze an essay and photographs that respond to that question, then respond to a similar prompt themselves.
Credit.Ricardo Nagaoka for The New York Times
April 15, 2021
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â by Celeste Ng
The New York Times Culture desk invited 28 photographers, all Asian and Asian-American, to photograph what love looked like in their world. The images are interwoven with an essay by Celeste Ng and invite artists to respond to a climate of fear and racism with images and reflections from the heart.