Picasso's Wolf

Pablo Picasso’s Stunning Repetitions

Jillian Hess | Noted | 7th April 2025

Picasso was a master realist until the advent of photography. His response was “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, a painting that “set the art world on fire”. He carried out 809 preliminary studies and filled 16 different sketchbooks, moving from realistic representations to geometric forms, collapsing perspectives, using shapes that didn’t belong together — birthing what would become known as cubism (1,600 words)

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Return Of The Dire Wolf

Jeffrey Kluger | Time | 7th April 2025

Bioscience company Colossal claims to have genetically engineered the birth of three dire wolves. With domestic dogs as surrogate mothers, 20 edits in the gray wolf’s genes were made to create the dire wolf, but the species differences are many: white coat, larger size and vocalisations — “a howl that hadn’t been heard on earth in over 10,000 years”. Efforts to create a woolly mammoth are underway (5,400 words)