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In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich province is left in limbo
Each new power painted over its predecessors’ propaganda posters and insignia, leaving the province’s buildings a palimpsest ...
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The Archimedes Palimpsest
The book is now a palimpsest, a manuscript with a layer of text written over an earlier scraped- or washed-off text (see What is a Palimpsest?). For centuries the monk's prayer book is used in ...
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This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...