Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dylan Thuras (@dylanthuras) Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura Co-Founder Not to be confused with the other much larger Grimsey Island, this tiny island off the coast of the Westfjords is one of the few places where you……
Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. Joshua Foer, Atlas Obscura Co-Founder My son and I went in search of a legendary piece of Boston guerrilla art. Back in 2006, a professor from MassArt installed a U-shaped bench—a bench with two backs—along a path near Jamaica Pond. The parks department, assuming it……
FILE – Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)(AP/Jose Luis Magana) FILE – Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at…
President Donald Trump said the U.S. will partner with Israel to run new food centers in Gaza to address the worsening humanitarian crisis there, but few details have been offered amid a growing outcry at home and abroad to do more to address starvation in Gaza. Trump said during his return from golfing in Scotland that Israel must “make sure the distribution is proper.” Meanwhile Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has proposed revoking the scientific “endangerment finding” that underpins U.S….
LOS ANGELES (AP) — No matter the time on Martha’s Vineyard, a shimmering glow will be powered by the star presence of Black filmmakers, actors and tastemakers like Issa Rae, Mara Brock Akil and Michelle Obama who are shaping culture on their own terms. For two-plus decades, the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival has been a cultural reunion, a summer sanctuary and a safe haven where some of the industry’s most influential voices converge in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts….
Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sara Ewell (@saraewell) Sara Ewell, Chief Revenue Officer Each quarter, our company celebrates Obscura Day. It’s a day that we step away from our computers and explore the world around us. Friday was our summer Obscura……
Planning an all-girls camping trip is a thrilling way to connect, relax, and make some unforgettable memories together. Statista states that by 2025, the camping market in the UK will generate approximately $923.63 million in revenue. We can expect this revenue to increase by 3.64% annually from 2025 through 2029, which would push the market The post How to Plan an All-Girls’ Camping Excursion appeared first on Revfine.com….
Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erin Benza McKay (@erinbmckay) Erin McKay, Senior Director, Sales Marketing and Brand Partnerships A few times a year at Atlas Obscura, we get the day off to explore something new; We call it Obscura Day. I……
Music technology took center stage at MIT during “FUTURE PHASES,” an evening of works for string orchestra and electronics, presented by the MIT Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program as part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). The well-attended event was held last month in the Thomas Tull Concert Hall within the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building. Produced in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab’s Opera of the Future Group and Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra A……
Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. Johanna Mayer, Senior Producer I was in North Carolina for a music festival, so I decided to explore some of the nearby natural wonders in the jaw-dropping Blue Ridge Mountains. After hiking through mountain laurel-draped trails, we headed to Blowing Rock—a jagged cliff that towers……
Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sunshine Flint (@sunshineflint) Sunshine Flint, Senior Editor On a solo hike high in Albania’s Ceraunian mountains, I followed — literally — the trail of Caesar and his invading army. He landed his troops on the coast……
As the jammed commute collides with the unfettered highway, a bus becomes so much more than a commute. It’s an opportunity to arrive at the office motivated, able to multitask, and ready to be in charge. Just imagine your team boarding a sleek, roomy coach with Wi‑Fi, comfortable seats, and panoramic windows. No more traffic The post Why Charter Buses Turn Travel into an Experience appeared first on Revfine.com….
A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth’s most powerful levers for mitigating climate change. In a paper published in PNAS, the researchers showed that following deforestation, naturally-regrowing tropical forests, with healthy populations of seed-dispersing animals, can absorb up to four times more carbon than similar forests with fewer seed-dispersing animals. Because tropical forests……
Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. Louise Story, Atlas Obscura’s Chief Executive Officer An experience of a place can be shaped by the company you’re in. I took my family’s new dog, Rusty, with me to this historic pet cemetery. I wanted to see what Rusty thought.. or if he even……
Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, and Amazon. Rhym Guissé: A quick warning: some of the language and imagery used to describe this period of time may be upsetting. Please take care while listening. Dino Thompson has had a gun pointed at him six times, and he’s been in love 20 times. From these stats, he might seem like more of a lover than a fighter. But at Charlie’s Place, a club on Carver Street, the owner……
