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A Building’s Journey from National Treasure to Symbol of Decay, More Info on Apple’s Face ID & Bad Shopping Cart Return Habits

The Core77 team spends time combing through the news so you don’t have to. Here’s a weekly roundup of our favorite finds from the World Wide Web:

Spiraling out of control: how a playfully modern spiral building in Venezuela became a notorious political prison and a symbol of national decay.

Ancient traditional trades in northern Alaska that are being threatened by climate change.

I still don’t get it.

Seattle Design Festival questions the idea of power.

Some of the finalists for 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, produced by the Natural History Museum, London. Full results come out at the end of October.

Announcing the 2017 Rhizome Microgrant Awardees.

The “Voice of North Korea” wears pink. A lot.

This week in problematic mascot design…

Sarcastic Rover.

The good, bad and ugly of shopping cart returns. (via Boing Boing)

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