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Beverly Turner Lynds, 1929–2024

Beverly Turner Lynds poses with the author’s telescope.Rodney Pommier American astronomer Beverly T. Lynds died peacefully on October 5, 2024, at a hospice in Portland, Oregon, after suffering a stroke in early September. She was 95 years old.  Beverly Turner was born on August 19, 1929, in Shreveport, Louisiana, but moved to New Orleans at age […]

Russia places six foreign journalists on wanted list for illegal border entry | The Express Tribune

MOSCOW: The Russian interior ministry has placed six foreign journalists on its wanted list for illegally crossing the Russian frontier to report inside the Kursk region after a Ukrainian cross-border incursion, the TASS news agency reported on Thursday. Russia’s FSB security service said last month it had opened criminal cases against several of the journalists, who include a […]

7 Must-Visit Places for Solo Travellers from Delhi Airport

Solo travel is a transformative experience, offering the freedom to explore at your own pace and immerse yourself in new cultures. If you’re based in Delhi, you’re in luck because there are numerous fascinating destinations within reach–nationally and internationally. And what better when you can take a direct flight from Delhi Airport, a hub of […]

Places in Time III

This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent “Places in Time” series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time; and the third jumping to Switzerland and tracing the […]

Places in Time II

Before receiving Brutalist Paris from the folks at Blue Crow Media, I thought of the UK company simply as a maker of maps. I reviewed Concrete Map Chicago back in 2018 and since then have noticed them putting out maps of modern architecture, brutalist architecture, public transit — even trees. If the Chicago map is any indication, […]

Places in Time I

Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings of a certain typology, but also ones spanning a particular timeframe or through some other theme. I’ve written a few of them myself, so I don’t inherently hate them. But I tend […]