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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 11, 2026

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 11, 2026

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Dépendence, Iconoclast Brussels Gallery, To Close

Dépendence, Iconoclast Brussels Gallery, To Close

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Dépendence, the iconoclast, 23-year-old Brussels gallery that built a trusted reputation as an “artists’ gallery,” is closing. “Galleries come and go. Some are short-lived but leave a clear trace, others endure for decades without changing much. Dépendance has been there for twenty-three years and now we feel it’s time to say good-bye,” stated the gallery (spelled in all lowercase) via press release sent last night. Co-founded by Michael Callies, a former artist, and Stephan Jaax, a former banker, the gallery resisted expansion during its over two-decade-long history. With its single location in the city, Dépendance was a highlight of the Brussels’ gallery scene, while also promoting its artists internationally. It stewarded their participation in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Documenta Kassel, and at institutions such as MoMA, New York, Tate Britain, Stedelijk Museum, and many others. Related Articles Dépendance represented about 30 artists, many of whom joined through early connections to the acclaimed Städelschule in Frankfurt, where Callies, a conceptually-oriented artist, studied. They include artists such as Thomas Bayrle, Michael …

Massive fan-shaped structure found hidden beneath East Antarctica

Massive fan-shaped structure found hidden beneath East Antarctica

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Three kilometers of ice can hide a lot, but not forever. Beneath East Antarctica, researchers have identified a continent-scale geological structure that ties together some of the region’s best-known buried basins into a single sprawling system, one that may reshape how scientists think about the continent’s deep past and its icy present. The newly named East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province stretches from Prydz Bay to the Transantarctic Mountains and from the coast deep into the continent, reaching toward 85° south. It includes the Wilkes and Aurora basins, along with the basin that hosts Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake on Earth. These features were already familiar on their own. What had not been recognized before was that they form one coherent structure. The team at Durham University argues that this buried landscape resembles a handheld fan at a semi-continental scale. Its long basins radiate outward, and its geometry appears to converge near a pivot point close to the South Pole. In the researchers’ interpretation, that pattern points to a powerful tectonic process rather than …

The Latest on the Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Latest on the Institute of Museum and Library Services

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As he did for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, Trump once again proposed defunding the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for Fiscal Year 2027. This is his sixth attempt to dismantle the only federal agency dedicated to libraries and museums. Citizens across the country pushed back fiercely against last year’s attempt to sunset the IMLS, which came on the heels of its gutting at the hands of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the administration’s efforts to repurpose the IMLS as an arm of propaganda. Ten months of fighting culminated in a successful outcome, as the IMLS received nearly its full 2026 budget. When news of the attempted defunding for 2027 hit, so, too, did advocacy organizations pick that work right back up. Now, nearly two months after the proposed 2027 budget, there’s both good news to share on its status as it makes its way through Congress and a continued call to action to save this vital agency. IMLS Funding Status in Congressional Review Right Now On Friday, June 5, the …

What did T. rex’s breath smell like?

What did T. rex’s breath smell like?

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Imagine the world millions of years ago. You’re in forest clearing bordered by tall conifers. Suddenly, the trees part and a Tyrannosaurus rex stomps into view. As it gets closer, the air fills with the smell of fear. And the smell of T. rex. It’s pretty pungent. But what exactly did T. rex’s breath smell like? Experts reckon it wasn’t pleasant.  In 2018, the Field Museum in Chicago opened a new exhibit centered around Sue, a 13-foot-tall, 40-foot-long T. rex fossil. Sue is one of the most complete T. rex fossils ever found, and Ben Miller, an exhibition developer at the museum, wanted to make Sue’s exhibit as immersive as possible by stimulating visitors’ senses, including their sense of smell.  “Everybody knows what …

Can 1,000 people have a meaningful conversation? AI may make it possible.

Can 1,000 people have a meaningful conversation? AI may make it possible.

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In the modern world, the sheer scale of human organizations has become overwhelming. The average Fortune 1000 company employs more than 30,000 people, with functional teams often numbering in the hundreds. Government and defense organizations are even larger. Yet, despite the common refrain that an organization’s most valuable asset is the intelligence and creativity of its people, we currently lack the ability to enable teams of even a dozen people to hold thoughtful, productive conversations. Instead, we rely on message-passing within rigid hierarchies, with insight and reasoning lost at each layer. We can also use polls and surveys to capture input at scale, but this strips away the nuance of human wisdom and eliminates the key element of group conversation: interactive deliberation. The value of a real-time discussion is that individuals can build on others’ ideas by debating options, offering new evidence, and converging on solutions that would not have emerged from any one person alone.  Even worse than polls or message-passing, a new trend is to use AI to capture input from individuals through …

15 standout products from High-End Vienna, the yearly showcase of glorious audiophile indulgence

15 standout products from High-End Vienna, the yearly showcase of glorious audiophile indulgence

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We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. High-End Vienna is a showcase for luxury finishes and second-mortgage price tags. The 2026 edition took place June 4-7, and featured plenty of six-figure sticker shock and sci-fi designs. But beyond the design-forward statement pieces is some actually approachable gear, as well. We’ve sifted through dozens of press releases to identify where smarter systems are headed and to celebrate old-school hi-fi brands making their heritage feel fresh, presenting all of it as a gallery of beautiful excess. The fifth generation of the Diamond Dome tweeter-topped 800 Series, Bowers & Wilkins’ latest flagship speakers celebrate the brand’s 60th anniversary. As important as the sound it produces is the resonance it …

Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future

Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future

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Backcasting is one of several methods futurists use to understand possible futures. Futurists, of course, cannot “tell the future,” but they work hard to offer realistic scenarios for others to aim for and work toward in their respective lives and/or lines of work. And, if enough people work towards a particular scenario, the likelihood of it being fulfilled will of course be bigger. This method differs from two other more commonly used futures studies methods, namely “forecasting” and “foresight.” Forecasting is what most corporate executives use when they want to engage in longer-term planning. It is a fairly simple method of extrapolation, using historical and present-day data to draw a curve in a diagram and then extrapolate it according to the planning period in question, whether it be a quarter, a year, or two to three years. Nevertheless, in this kind of fairly basic analysis, one must also take known and/or assumed influences into consideration, such as short-term economic, demographic, or climatic changes, expected technological developments, new competitors entering, or existing ones leaving one’s market …

A Pilates instructor says this is the one exercise she recommends to people who want to build core strength and improve their hip mobility

A Pilates instructor says this is the one exercise she recommends to people who want to build core strength and improve their hip mobility

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Pilates has evolved into a myriad of different styles and approaches, but Pilates’ origins were simpler, with just 34 movements created by its founder and namesake, Joseph Pilates. According to Rebecca Daodun, Pilates instructor and founder of Pilates Prescription, there’s one move from the original set, published in the 1945 book Joseph Pilates co-authored, Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology, that she always recommends to clients. “Pilates leg circles are a full-body move from the classical repertoire that requires you to move your leg in a circular movement without moving your trunk,” she tells Fit&Well. “The work is in maintaining stillness through your body. Latest Videos From “You are strengthening your hip flexors and leg muscles, but your whole body should be working to stabilize. Your core muscles stabilize your body, the stable leg supports the active leg and pressing into the mat with the backs of the arms should help anchor your body down.” How to do Pilates leg circles Pilates Exercises – One Leg Circle – YouTube Watch On Lie on your back …

Matthew Aucoin on Opera, Music Criticism, and Poetry | Matthew Aucoin, Jarrett Earnest

Matthew Aucoin on Opera, Music Criticism, and Poetry | Matthew Aucoin, Jarrett Earnest

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In this episode of Private Life, Matthew Aucoin joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss the state of music criticism, the work of music composition, and the life and writing of Aucoin’s former professor and mentor, the poetry critic Helen Vendler. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. The two also talk about “Inside the Music,” Aucoin’s essay from the Review’s November 6, 2025, issue about the decline of music reviews in mainstream media, as well as “Chronicles of Love and Loss,” Vendler’s review, from our May 11, 1995, issue, of o James Merill’s final book of poetry, A Scattering of Salts.(1995). Aucoin is a composer, conductor, and writer. His operatic song cycle Music for New Bodies, inspired by the poetry of Jorie Graham, premiered in 2024 and was staged at the Lincoln Center in the summer of 2025. He is the author of the book The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera (2021), and he has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books since 2018. Also in 2018 he was the recipient of …