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Trump Could Kill This Solar Energy Stock, But Analysts Think It Has 1,380% Upside Potential in 2025

Down over 90% from all-time highs, Sunnova Energy is a solar stock that trades at a substantial discount to consensus price targets.

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Photos of myself make me shudder in horror. Does that mean I’m hideous?

Obsessing over pictures of yourself isn’t necessarily superficial. It’s almost inevitable, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino

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Anne Michaels: ‘Language can’t represent brutality’

The Booker-shortlisted author on her inability to compromise, her friendship with John Berger, and the last book she gave as a gift

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The 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Fossil Reveals A Forgotten Truth About Humans

Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled.

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What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as “the mother of us all.” During a celebration following her discovery, she was named “Lucy,” after the Beatles song “Lucy in…

The Conversation

Gerald Cinamon obituary

Chief designer for Penguin Books with a flair for pacing illustrated nonfiction, such as with Pelican’s Style and Civilization series

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Best art history books for honing your cultural knowledge

Discover the vibrant tapestry of the art world and its pioneers

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Held by Anne Michaels review – still master of her universe

Dazzling lyrical snapshots recall the dreamlike style of Fugitive Pieces in the poet’s third novel, a fluid examination of history, memory and generational trauma

The Guardian - UK

‘I am all for strangeness’: Tilda Swinton on artistic integrity, acting and the afterlife

The Oscar-winning Scottish actor answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson and Elton John

The Guardian - UK

Tremor by Teju Cole review – snapshot of a restless mind

The Open City author traces a grieving teacher’s itinerant life in an enlightening autofictional novel sometimes hampered by its earnestness

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Radical Landscapes at the William Morris Gallery review: a provocative but disjointed show

From the right to roam to Greenham Common, this exhibition is about access to and the ownership of land

Evening Standard

Libby Hall obituary

Other Lives: Photographer, writer and collector whose treasury of canine photographs was described as possibly the largest ever amassed by one person

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‘Pornographic chic’: can Helmut Newton’s sexist nudes really be fixed by gender-switching?

Hani Hape has recreated the infamous photographer’s overtly sexual photographs of female nudes – using naked men instead. But the results, while fascinating, raise even more issues

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‘Like an exploded iPhone’: why Sarah Sze is the perfect artist for the age of information overload

The American artist’s planetarium-like structures combine painting, sculpture, architecture and even ladders, wire and scissors. They are impossible to take in all at once – much like modern life

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The big picture: bonds of friendship across species boundaries

German photographer Yana Wernicke follows women saving farm animals from slaughter to explore our connection with fellow mammals

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Stress, exhaustion and 1,000 patients a day: the life of an English GP

Behind the outcry about waiting times lies the anxiety that our cherished GP system will soon collapse. We witness life on the frontline

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Derrick Greaves obituary

Artist whose first solo show was a popular and critical success, and who later taught printmaking at Norwich School of Art

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Alain Tanner obituary

Swiss new wave film director whose work focused on characters alienated from mainstream society

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The big idea: why modern medicine can’t work without stories

Few of us see the same GP twice, but the doctor-patient relationship saves lives

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The US climate bill could make now the best time to go solar

If signed into law as written, the climate bill before the U.S. Congress would change the calculus for American households thinking about going solar. The legislation stands to make that transition more affordable while also subsidizing purchases of electric cars, heat pumps, high-tech water heaters and battery-storage systems — clean-energy…

The Conversation

Ways of Seeing at 50: an icy blast of a book about male voyeurism, art, capitalism and so much more

I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways of Seeing, in 1972. In the years before Australia had colour television BBC art programs were often screened at the Art Gallery of NSW. (Previously the same venue had shown Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation).

The Guardian - UK

Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’

It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophic

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Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art

From a cruise missile Constable to a rampaging neon giant, artists have always used rural settings to confront the uses and abuses of land. We go behind the scenes at a riveting new Liverpool show that captures their rebellious spirit

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Ways of Seeing at 50: how John Berger’s radical TV series changed our view of art

It was an unlikely choice for BBC Two to schedule against Match of the Day. But Berger’s series and book now forms the bedrock of how we interpret art and advertising

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