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Meet the Dubai artist whose work has sold for millions â and turns down 99% of prospective buyers
"Most artists are linked very heavily to galleries ⦠whereas with this setup, I can actually develop my own relationships with my clients and really build that collector base all over the world," Jafri told CNBC's The Art of Appreciation. He also has a London gallery space for European and U.S. buyers.
Jafri, a British artist, studied at Oxford University's prestigious Ruskin School of Art and has been working for nearly 30 years. Known for his magical realist art, he creates work in a "meditative state," he said, using music to get into the right headspace and often painting for many hours at a time.
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We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized
Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.
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How to Filter Out Harmful ‘Forever Chemicals’ at Home - Scientific American (No paywall)
An environmental engineer provides a glimpse of the magnitude of the challenge to remove PFAS from water supplies and ways you can reduce these “forever chemicals” in your own drinking water
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British man tests first personalised melanoma vaccine
Steve Young is part of the tests to see if an mRNA jab can stop the deadliest skin cancer returning.
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The 300-year-old Japanese method of upcycling
Sashiko is easy, practical and beautiful – and gaining fans around the world. Bel Jacobs speaks to practitioners to find out more.
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Conservation slowing biodiversity loss, scientists say
A first-of-its-kind study shows conservation is worth investing in, researchers say.
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Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago - FT (No paywall)
If only we’d followed Wright’s Law, solar tech could have been cheaper much sooner
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The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase - The Economist (No paywall)
America, China and the battle for supremacy
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How strong is India’s economy? - The Economist (No paywall)
It isn’t the next China, but it could still transform itself and the world
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The better way to measure cosmic time
There are a number of grand questions we can ask about the Universe that cut right to the very core of what reality actually is, and were some of the biggest head-scratchers for all of human history. Questions like, “What is the Universe?” “How big is it?” and “Was it eternal, or did it spring into existence, and if so, when?” used to be some of the greatest philosophical mysteries, and yet the last 100 years have provided firm, scientific answers. We know what the Universe is, we know that the part observable to us is a hair over 92 billion light-years in diameter, and we know that the hot Big Bang, which started off the Universe as-we-know-it, occurred precisely 13.8 billion years ago, with an uncertainty in these values of just ~1% or so.
But why, of all the ways there are to measure time and distance, do we use such an Earth-centric set of units, like “years” and “light-years”? Isn’t there a better, more objective, more universal way to do it? Surely there is. At least, that’s what Jerry Bear thinks, writing in to ask:
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