2010s Archives - Ex-Plain

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Menacing Earthworks and Atomic Priesthoods: How to Store Radioactive Waste for 10,000 Years

Radioactive waste can remain lethal for tens of thousands of years. When it’s buried deep in the ground, how do…

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A Belgian artist turned medical X-rays into Gothic stained glass, replacing saints with skeletons and radiography with cathedral light. The…

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After terrorism and war erased centuries of Iraqi heritage, one artist began reconstructing the missing artifacts, creating ghostly stand-ins for…

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A quarter of a century ago, a Celtic punk musician started a performance of a song so absurdly long that…

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New York–based artist Clement Valla has been steadily collecting images of the Earth, but not the Earth as we know…

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In his striking series Landscapes Within, Belgian photographer and urban explorer Reginald Van de Velde turns his lens toward a…

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For nearly two decades, a Helsinki-based photographer with an eye for street style has been capturing the Finnish capital's best-dressed…

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Forget Japan—This small Baltic country is possibly the true master of surreal and weird animation, here are the films that…