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Crookston School in Wallyford, Scotland

October 12, 2020

The Crookston School was an educational institution for children of the former mining town of Wallyford. Established during the late 19th-century, it was the home of the World War I Crookston Memorial, which has since been relocated. The school itself was abandoned around the 1970s, after which it fell into disrepair and was soon covered in graffiti. In 2015 and 2017, the ruins were damaged by arsonists. However, given its location on the site of the historical 16th-century Battle...

Temple of Hercules Victor in Rome, Italy

October 12, 2020

The Temple of Hercules Victor is a small Roman temple located in the area of the Forum Boarium, along the Tiber river. This curious structure immediately catches the eye and is known as a tholos, a round Greek temple encircled by a colonnade. The temple was constructed around the year 120 BC, making it the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome, and the second oldest building in the city. It’s also the only surviving structure in Rome made out...

Could a Tree Help Find a Decaying...

October 12, 2020

This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Since 1980, the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center has plumbed the depths of the most macabre of sciences: the decomposition of human bodies. Known colloquially as the Body Farm, here scientists examine how donated cadavers decay, like how the microbiomes inside us go haywire after death. That microbial activity leads to bloat, and—eventually—a body will puncture. Out flows a rank fluid...

Lund Observatory Clock in Lund, Sweden

October 12, 2020

Access to the correct time of day is something that has become so easy in our society that it is taken for granted. Yet this was not always the case. When it was installed in 1913, the Lund Observatory’s clock gave residents the most accurate reporting of the time in the area. For years, many locals set their own clocks to the timer that ticked away at the astronomy center’s front gate. Though once a crucial part of daily...

Colinton Tunnel in Edinburgh, Scotland

October 12, 2020

Back in the heyday of the locomotive train, the city of Edinburgh was served by a network of railway lines. This commuter pastime continued for several decades. The advent of the automobile caused a massive decline in rail travel starting in the 1920s. Miles of tracks would lie dormant for several years around the city. It wasn’t until the end of the 20th-century that many of these abandoned pathways were converted into walking and cycling routes. One such line...

Ardmore Ghost Town in Ardmore, South Dakota

October 12, 2020

Driving down Highway 71 after a baron stretch of nothingness, visitors will soon come upon a few decaying homes. There’s little to no traffic here, as the town is barren and forlorn, frozen in time—a photographer’s dream. Founded in 1889, Ardmore was a classic 19th-century frontier town, mainly created as a stopping point for the New Burlington Railroad. The town was plagued by drought and the local creek was too acidic for human consumption. The steam trains would leave...

Grave of Võ Thị Sáu in...

October 11, 2020

Vo Thi Sau was just a schoolgirl when she became involved in revolutionary activities. When Ho Chi Minh declared independence against the French in 1945, she was only 12 years old. A few years later, she joined the Viet Minh and became a guerilla fighter. At the age of 14 while in a busy market, she tossed a grenade at a group of French soldiers. She managed to kill one officer and injure several others. She was able to...

Caldo de Piedra in Tlalixtac de Cabrera,...

October 9, 2020

Caldo de Piedra is deceptively humble. Located a few miles outside Oaxaca City, the small, thatched-roof restaurant is named after its specialty, stone soup. Before it’s cooked, even the soup itself might not look like much. But when the chef plucks the glowing rock from the fire and drops into a broth swimming with ingredients, the bubbling medley brings an ancient culinary art to life. Caldo de piedra is a staple among northern Oaxaca’s indigenous Chinantec community, especially in the...

Behold, the Great Salt Lake’s Wonderfully Colorful...

October 9, 2020

Much of Utah is beautiful, but much of it is also ruddy or yellow. The state is home to ochre-hued canyons, knobby sandstone monuments, and a grove of bright, quaking aspens, with canary-colored canopies and white trunks. But in northwest Utah, near the Promontory Mountains and the edge of the Great Salt Lake, things get much more colorful. This photograph, taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station in July 2020, depicts some salt pans that abut the...

Il Tempio di Adriano (Temple of Hadrian)...

October 9, 2020

Roman Emperor Hadrian was deified after his death by his successor Antoninus Pius, who dedicated a large temple to his predecessor in 145. The temple was located within the Campus Martius, a central area in ancient Rome. It was filled with monuments and religious buildings that were mostly destroyed over the centuries. Like many of the other ancient buildings in the area, during the 17th-century the temple was mostly in ruins. In 1695 it was incorporated into a papal...

Pozzo d’Antullo in Collepardo, Italy

October 9, 2020

On the road between the small towns of Collepardo and Vico nel Lazio in eastern Lazio resides an enormous karstic sinkhole, one of the most amazing geological wonders in Central Italy. Originally, there was once a cave here and at some point, the roof collapsed, exposing this enormous hole. The sinkhole measures between 40 and 70 meters in depth and is inaccessible without ropes and speleological equipment. The circumference of the sinkhole is approximately 300 meters. In the past,...

‘Alice Door’ in Oxford, England

October 9, 2020

Seventh-century princess and abbess, Saint Frideswide is now known as the patron saint of Oxford. Running from King Algar of Mercia who sought to marry her, she ended up in Oxford and left a few legendary marks across the city. One such place was Saint Margaret’s Well. A church dedicated to her was constructed in the neighborhood of Osney Island during the late 19th-century, designed by Gothic Revival architect Samuel Sanders Teulon. Although the church itself is beautifully constructed,...

This Artist Sculpts Animals and Flowers From...

October 9, 2020

No one is pickier about rice than Guorui Chen. The 33 year old only accepts rice grains longer than 7 millimeters (1/4 inch), and they have to be white, clear, straight, and undamaged. Every day, he separates intact grains from broken ones with a winnowing basket and then spends hours examining their transparency under a light. But Chen won’t cook this rice. Instead, he turns it into art. He picks out three grains, glues them end to end into...

How Drones Help Archaeologists Peer Into the...

October 9, 2020

For the archaeologist Jesse Casana, midnight is the best time to find things underground. “It’s always in the middle of the night, sometime between late and very late,” he says. Casana, an anthropology professor at Dartmouth, has been testing a new thermal imaging drone for archaeological research. “It’s a very weird kind of archaeology because usually we go and spend weeks and weeks working in the sun. In this case we just go in the middle of the night—once.”...

Darwin and Wallace: A Nature & Fossil...

October 9, 2020

Darwin and Wallace, a shop hidden within a high-end antique store, caters to oddity collectors and lovers of the natural world. Visitors to the shop will find several amazing specimens for sale, from dinosaur teeth to cultural and tribal items. There is also a huge array of mounted butterflies and other insects for guests to marvel at. The name of the shop pays homage to two of the greatest naturalists and explorers of their day, Charles Darwin and Alfred...

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