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The Upside escapes Brexit for the continent | World news
Bonjour! This week, the Upside has left behind BoJo’s baffling Brexit and holed up in Paris, where we have been attending the grandly named Convergences World Forum 2019. You have to admire the aim: zero exclusion, zero carbon, zero poverty. The mood was uber-positive. “You are the indispensable vector for transmitting inspiration,” conference lead Thibault …
Amazon fires: Forest loss challenges Paris climate ambition
Image copyright Planet Labs Inc Image caption The fire in Mato Grosso is one of the worst ones in the Brazilian Amazon basin The kind of flaring fires seen in the Amazon forest this year would make the Paris climate target more difficult to achieve, scientists have warned. The treaty aims to limit global temperature …
Agropolis will open the world’s largest rooftop farm in Paris
Large rooftop farms aren’t new—in Chicago’s South Side, a 75,000-square-foot greenhouse on top of a factory building grows up to 10 million heads of leafy greens each year (and was the largest rooftop greenhouse in the world when it was built). In Brooklyn, a new rooftop farm with a 55,000-square-foot garden and 5,000-square-foot greenhouse is …
How An Encounter With The World’s Most Famous Vagina Painting Changed My Life
I knew that staring was rude. But it was hard not to stare at the realistically rendered, X-rated perspective of a splayed vagina on view in one of the most celebrated museums in the world. No face, no legs, no arms, just ladybits. Not a fig leaf in sight. I wasn’t the only voyeur, mind …
Digital platforms and technologies are changing the landscape of the interior design industry
The pervasive nature of modern technology has found its way into the interior design industry in unexpected and exciting ways. New digital platforms have been born out of niches that mirror the recent demands of the consumer (who has developed a penchant for vintage design pieces) alongside pressures from the wider industry to abolish waste …
Djokovic’s Slam streak ends in loss to Thiem in French semis
By Howard Fendrich | AP June 8 at 10:22 AM PARIS — Novak Djokovic’s 26-match Grand Slam winning streak ended with a dramatic 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 loss Saturday to Dominic Thiem in a rain-interrupted French Open semifinal that spanned more than four hours over two days. Thiem wasted two match points with quick unforced errors …