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Experts Pick the Best Modern Architecture

Andrew Price
07.03.10


Vanity Fair asked 52 "experts" to each pick the best five works of architecture since 1980 and has a photo gallery of the 20 most popular selections. Frank Gehry's Bilbao museum tops the list. And while I was a little surprised to see such a popular favorite was also the critics' choice, architecture's The Blue Album is followed by a host of stunning Pinkertons that I had never heard of, including the thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland, designed by Peter Zumthor (#3 on the list and pictured above). The collection is a lot of fun to look through, even if the structures don't all conform to Passivhaus standards.

Image: Therme Vals, from Wikimedia Commons

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Why the iPhone 11 is making people with trypophobia experience panic and revulsion

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When the iPhone 11 debuted on September 10, it was met with less enthusiasm than the usual iPhone release. A lot of techies are holding off purchasing the latest gadget until Apple releases a phone with 5G technology.

Major US phone carriers have yet to build out the infrastructure necessary to provide a consistent 5G experience, so Apple didn't feel it necessary to integrate the technology into its latest iPhone.

A dramatic new feature on the iPhone 11 Pro is its three camera lenses. The three lenses give users the the original wide, plus ultrawide and telephoto options.

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Bernie Sanders says he'll ban police using facial recognition software

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In an effort to avoid a dystopian sci-fi future where Artificial Intelligence knows pretty much everything about you, and a team of cops led by Tom Cruise run around arresting people for crimes they did not commit because of bad predictive analysis; Bernie Sanders and other Democratic candidates have some proposals on how we can stop it.

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Whales' migration patterns can be tracked by their songs, researchers claim

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It's fun to go to a party, talk to strangers, and try to guess where they're from just by their accents and use of language. It's called 'soda' on the East Coast and 'pop' in the Midwest, right? Well, it looks like a new study has been able to determine where a Humpback whale has been and who he's been hanging out with during his awesome travels just from his song.

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Americans bailed out GM when it was desperate. Now it should take care of its workers.

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In 2009, the U.S. government paid $50 billion to bail out Detroit-based automaker General Motors. In the end, the government would end up losing $11.2 billion on the deal.

Government efforts saved 1.5 million jobs in the United States and a sizable portion of an industry that helped define America in the twentieth century.

As part of the auto industry's upheaval in the wake of the Great Recession, the United Automobile Workers (UAW) made sacrifices in contracts to help put the company on a solid footing after the government bailout.

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Jimmy Kimmel shows the dangers of deepfake videos by inserting Trump and Pence into ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

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Fake news is rampant on the internet. Unscrupulous websites are encouraged to create misleading stories about political figures because they get clicks.

A study published by Science Advances found that elderly conservatives are, by far, the worst spearders of fake news. Ultra conservatives over the age of 65 shared about seven times more fake information on social media than moderates and super liberals during the 2016 election.

Get ready for things to get worse.

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