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Valley of Fire

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Tromsø, Norway

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JAMES LOVELOCK HAS spent decades thinking about the apocalypse. (When you’re the highly influential scientist who helped detect the hole in the earth’s ozone layer, that’s part of your job.) At some point, Lovelock realized that, in the event of a mass catastrophe, survivors might benefit from a manual of sorts—a text that explains how the world once worked. “What we need is a primer on science, clearly written and unambiguous in its meaning,” Lovelock wrote in a 1998 essay for Science titled “A Book for All Seasons.” The Earth and I ($30) is not that book. But it does explain in digestible terms how the earth came to be, how it behaves, and how we humans impact it. 

SEE MORE: The Earth and I: a gorgeous picture book from famed scientist James Lovelock. 

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Men and Style by David Coggins.

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The Sears Silvertone 1482 guitar amp, manufactured by Danelectro, retailed for just $68.95 when it debuted in 1963. Today, it commands upwards of $500 on the secondhand market – but it's still one of the best steals in music.

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Smeg Mini Fridge

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Barcelona Chair by Mies Van der Rohe

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coffee break

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Get outside this weekend.

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Protect

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We took a brand new pair of Danner Mountain 600 boots and hiked through the mountains of Colorado and desert of Nevada to gain 10 years of patina in one week.

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Louise Nevelson’s towering sculpture Big Black (1963) is on view in From the Collection: 1960–1969. Nevelson, who was born this day in 1899, fitted together shallow boxes filled with salvaged wood moldings, spindles, chair parts, and other fragments painted a dull black. As a rectangular plane to be viewed from the front, the sculpture has the pictorial quality of a painting—perhaps one of the preceding decade’s Abstract Expressionist canvases, which share its mural scale. With its play between flatness and recession, straight lines and curves, overlaps and vacancies, the work’s visual complexity rewards slow looking. 

[Installation view. Louise Nevelson. Big Black. 1963. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2016 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Gretchen Scott]

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