People Friday November 28, 2025
Researchers on a whale watching trip with nature-tour company Green Gold of Norway recently witnessed a remarkable sight — an orca whale birth. "A new life - birth of an orca baby," Krisztina Balotay, a wildlife photographer with Orca Channel, wrote on social media. Balotay took photos of the rare moment. After the birth, she noted, there was another remarkable sight: A group of orcas formed a “protective circle” around the newborn. Read the full Story >>
CNN Friday November 28, 2025
Best known for his images of extravagant, almost sculptural, women’s hairstyles, the work of the late Nigerian photographer J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere has been exhibited around the world. But in a 2014 documentary on his life, he said his art was not celebrated in his home country. That might be changing, notes CNN. Recently, 150 photographs from his archives, most of which hadn’t been publicly exhibited before, were the focus of a special exhibition at one of Africa’s premier art fairs, ART X Lagos, in Nigeria.
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WIRED Friday November 28, 2025
President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order that would seek to challenge state efforts to regulate artificial intelligence: A draft of the order viewed by Wired directs US attorney general Pam Bondi to create an “AI Litigation Task Force” whose purpose is to sue states in court for passing AI regulations that allegedly violate federal laws governing things like free speech and interstate commerce. The order specifically cites recently enacted AI safety laws in California and Colorado that require AI developers to publish transparency reports about how they train models.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Friday November 28, 2025
US Route 1, running some 2,300 miles from the Canadian border in Maine to its southern terminus in Key West, Florida, stands apart from other American roadways, notes National Geographic. It’s the route that photographer Anastasia Samoylova took for her most recent body of work, “Atlantic Coast.” The series was inspired by a similar undertaking from the 1950s by photographer Berenice Abbott. Unlike Samoylova, who began in her hometown of Miami, Abbott started her journey down Route 1 in 1954 in northern Maine.
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