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Searching for the Limits of Life in...

November 22, 2021

Excerpted from Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal About Earth and the Worlds Beyond. Copyright (c) 2021 by Robin George Andrews. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. The science is in: Lava, while molten, is bad for life. It flambés it to death. But microbes can thrive in conditions most animals would find abhorrent. The same is true for much of the East African Rift, with watery pools home to all...

Plaza Primero de Mayo in Buenos Aires,...

November 22, 2021

Upon a quick first glance, Plaza Primero de Mayo looks like any other small square in Buenos Aires. There are games for children, a traditional carrousel, a bocce court, a small soccer area, some chess tables, trees, bushes, and benches. If you go there on a Saturday, you may find the kiosks of a wet market selling things like fish, vegetables, and cheese. But only a careful inspection of the old fence that separates the square from some 80s...

'Der Krieg War' in Dresden, Germany

November 22, 2021

Out of a darkened room at the Galerie Neue Meister looms an unspeakable scene that assaults the viewer with the intensity of a fever nightmare. The Dresden triptych, which measures four meters by two meters, was the product of three years of continuous work (between 1929 and 1932) by the artist Otto Dix and is widely considered to be his magnum opus. Under a bleak sky a solitary figure, his humanity obscured by a gasmask, surveys a bomb-ravaged quagmire littered with...

Port Trust War Memorial in Mumbai, India

November 22, 2021

Ballard Estate is an area in Fort, the prime business district of Mumbai. The area is full of old buildings, with a lot of offices and wonderful tree-lined roads. At a major road junction at Ballard Estate stands a beautiful sandstone column. It is shaped like a lamp post and is decorated with winged lions. It has three sides and all of them are adorned with brass plaques, which serve as a reminder of how important the docks of...

Delta-09 Minuteman Missle Site in Wall, South...

November 22, 2021

Beginning in the early 1960s, Minuteman 1B missile launch sites were installed in several locations throughout the central and upper United States. Their purpose was to deter Russia from launching a nuclear strike against the United States. At one time there were 1,000 active Minuteman missiles arranged in six wings. The Minuteman II replaced the earlier models beginning in the 1970s. Some even featured multiple warheads inside one missile. Each Minuteman II missile had an explosive yield of 1,200,000 tons...

Kallin Shell Midden in Outer Hebrides, Scotland

November 22, 2021

The island of Grimsay, in Scotland‘s archipelago of the Outer Hebrides, is home to the community of Kallin (Ceallan in Gaelic). Kallin is one of the bases of Namara, a seafood company whose main business is based off the nearby island of North Uist. For the Kallin shop, scallops are among their best sellers, which is abundantly clear in the midden that surrounds their store. Middens are large collections of shells, which are discarded after the meat of the...

Otter-ly Adorable Climate Change Warriors May Save...

November 22, 2021

This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Off the coast of California lies an underwater forest of giant kelp, a kind of seaweed that grows to 100 feet tall at the rate of a foot a day. Just as a terrestrial forest sucks carbon dioxide out of the air, all that rapidly growing seaweed soaks up carbon from the water, playing an incredibly important role in climate mitigation. “With...

Corning Glass Bulb Flag in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania

November 22, 2021

In the 1940s, the Wellsboro division of Corning Glass Works became the largest manufacturer of Christmas tree bulbs, stepping up to fill the need when imports from Germany were disrupted. When Corning was to hold its annual service dinner in 1946 to honor returning World War II veterans, they wanted an extra special backdrop to the dinner. Design engineer Ellsworth C. Brown, also a returning vet, was asked by the plant manager D. J. Carr to design something both...

National Railway Museum in Freetown, Sierra Leone

November 22, 2021

The Sierra Leone railroad system was built in 1897, with one line to Daru in the eastern part of the country (and a small branch to Makeni the largest town in the north). The railroad system operated until 1974, then shut down due to a combination of increased car traffic and country policy. Since that year, some of the locomotives were bought and shipped to Wales, the others were kept in the capital city of Freetown. They were stored...

Podcast: Sunny Jim Cave

November 22, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we follow a long set of wooden stairs deep underground, to a sea cave with a mysterious and colorful past, and a spectacular, hidden view of the Pacific Ocean. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll...

5 Recipes From Indigenous Chefs to Add...

November 19, 2021

The modernized version of the Thanksgiving holiday is a blend of myth and fact. Although Plymouth Pilgrims did celebrate the harvest with members of the local Wampanoag tribe in 1621, a holiday called Thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated until the 1830s and wasn’t made official until 1863. By that point, European colonizers had committed countless atrocities against Indigenous communities, casting a dark shadow over the cross-cultural bread-breaking associated with the holiday. Instead of leaning into rosy, revisionist history, why not use...

A Photographer's Journey With the Ancient Baobabs...

November 19, 2021

When Tsitakakoike, one of the largest Grandidier’s baobab trees in Madagascar, with a circumference of almost 90 feet, split and collapsed in 2018 after years without rain, it was a huge loss. Not only are the fruit and bark of this species, also known as the “mother of the forest,” useful as food and rope-making material, but Tsitakakoike was estimated to be 1,400 years old and sacred to the residents of nearby Andombiro village. The villagers believed that the...

Emiliano Zapata House Museum in Anenecuilco, Mexico

November 19, 2021

In front of a striking mural at the center of the sun-baked town of Anenecuilco stands the ruins of a house in which the iconic revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was born and grew up. Born in 1879 to a mestizo (mixed Indigenous and Spanish ancestry) and campesino (rural peasant) family, Zapata was orphaned at a young age. His early life was marked by misery, poverty, and exposure to the brutality and injustice of the hacienda system. At the time, Mexico‘s hacienda system...

Cappella Suardi in Trescore Balneario, Italy

November 19, 2021

Cappella Suardi is an ordained place of worship that belongs to a private individual. The chapel itself is surprisingly small – just over nine meters in length and four meters in wide. Already in existence in the 15th-century, the chapel was located on a major artery connecting Bergamo to the rest of Europe. To appreciate the themes in the fresco, it is necessary to contextualize them in historical terms. The 16th-century was characterized by the turmoil caused by the...

Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park in McCalla,...

November 19, 2021

Located in central Alabama, just 24 miles southwest of Birmingham and 40 miles northeast of Tuscaloosa, Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park sits right in the heart of McCalla… otherwise known as the boonies. Although some might consider the surrounding area of the park to be desolate, the environment makes for a truly immersive experience with the nature and well-preserved history of the park. Tannehill is home to some of the best-preserved historical furnaces in the American South. Originally, the...

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