Gallery: 1,000 Days. 1,000 Surreal Posters. One ... Unfortunate Design
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Alex Proba has made a poster a day for the last 1,000th days.
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Proba's least favorite poster she's ever created.
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Proba created this image of a streak of skin tone colored makeup after breaking a bottle of foundation in her bathroom one morning.
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Demi Adejuyigbe Thinks You Should Only Post 3 Times a Day
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Fernanda González
The ‘Exotic Physics’ Behind a Mysterious 1,000-Mile Cloud on Mars
The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.
Tereza Ondráčková
She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.
Zoë Schiffer
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Lauren Goode
My Friend Has No Soul
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Boone Ashworth
I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
Boone Ashworth
A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age
After four weeks of using the cream, participants lowered the biological age of their skin by about two years on average.
Emily Mullin