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Eleanor Ambos is an unlikely tycoon. Since arriving in New York from her native Germany at age 20, she has transformed a modest interior-design business into a small empire, with a renovated factory building in the borough of Queens in New York at its centre. Eleanor Ambos Interiors profiles the singular octogenarian as she approaches her life with humour and maintains a fiery passion for her work, despite advancing age and worsening vision.
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Animals and humans
Join seabirds as they migrate, encountering human communities along the way
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Stories and literature
Two variants of a Hindu myth come alive in an animated ode to Indian storytelling
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Technology and the self
The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy
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Fairness and equality
There’s a dirty side to clean energy in the metal-rich mountains of South Africa
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Food and drink
The passage of time is a peculiar thing in a 24-hour diner
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Art
Background music was the radical invention of a trailblazing composer
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Anthropology
For an Amazonian female shaman, ayahuasca ceremonies are a rite and a business
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Gender
A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application
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Computing and artificial intelligence
Why large language models are mysterious – even to their creators
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