Photos from the early 1900s show LA’s forests of oil derricks. Hundreds of wells are still pumping, and new research finds people living nearby are struggling with breathing problems.
People across Canada, including this scene in Edmonton, have left shoes and candles at public displays in recognition of the discovery of children’s remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
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Ground-penetrating radar located the remains of 215 First Nations children in a mass unmarked grave, revealing a macabre part of Canada’s hidden history.
Protesters march and hold up posters along the streets of Hamilton to support anti racism and Black Lives Matter.
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A queen with a reputation for scandal, Marie Antoinette enjoyed her private spaces with a small circle of friends. A mirrored room kept the judgments of the outside world at bay.
The left photo shows a Kodak booth in Australia in the 1930s. The right photo is it colourized using the software program DeOldify.
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The algorithm has become a new way of capturing reality automatically, and it demands a heightened ethical engagement with photos.
‘Ako: A Tale of Loyalty’ takes players inside a young samurai’s world in 18th-century Japan.
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Leaving our earthly bodies and living forever as a machine isn’t just a thing of modern science fiction. These transhumanist ideas date back to the 18th century.
Engraving of a man drinking plague water during the 1665 London outbreak.
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Rowan Light, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
As trans-Tasman borders re-open and in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, Anzac Day gains new meaning and presents new challenges – just as it has always done.
Firefighters trying to extinguish a fire in the Jagger Library, at the University of Cape Town.
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Losing archives has significant implications in a country like South Africa with a fraught and contested history because voices from the past, which may carry alternative histories, are lost.
An engraving of the sabbath from Pierre de Lancre’s Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges.
A historian reviews Pablo Agüere’s award-winning Netflix film Akelarre and explains why it is one of the best films around on the early modern witch-hunt.