The inherent violence of captured images has been exhaustively analyzed over the past century, from Barthes to Sontag, and yet the terrain of critical theory rarely crosses over into cinematic praxis.

Why it's incredible: The rock formation is split cleanly down the middle as if cut by a laser. The Al Naslaa Rock Formation is a landmark in the Saudi Arabian desert formed of two big blocks of ...

For hundreds of years, Africa has been the location of groundbreaking discoveries that have shaped researchers’ understanding of the Earth’s history. In the Sahara Desert, scientists uncovered ...

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Al Naslaa is a rock formation in Saudi Arabia's northwestern desert consisting of two huge, symmetrical stone blocks that are separated by a mysterious gap and sit on small pedestals. When you ...