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How Utopian Living Looked to Modernist Architects
Les Choux de Créteil, designed by Gérard Grandval, France, 1974. (Photo: Dacian Groza/ Courtesy The Tale of Tomorrow© Gestalten 2016)On the outskirts of Paris, there lies what was promise of a better...
View ArticleFound: One of the Largest Meteorites Ever
Scientists in Argentina have unearthed one of the largest meteorites ever discovered on Earth, and there's no way an alien blob creature is incubating itself inside. According to Science Alert, the...
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If You Want to Live in a Copenhagen Commune, Get Ready for Red Tape
A houseboat in Christiania, Copenhagen. (Photo: Schorle/CC BY-SA 4.0)Vibrant murals, lush greenery, and whimsical eco-buildings line the narrow streets of Christiania, Copenhagen’s infamous squatted...
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The Lost Lesbian Bars of New Orleans
The rainbow flag in New Orleans. (Photo: Tony Webster/CC BY-SA 2.0)In the 1970s and ‘80s, hundreds of women in New Orleans, Louisiana found bliss at their local dive bar, swaying to the jukebox amid...
View ArticleCheck Out This Massive Moon Balloon Terrorizing Streets in China
Huge moon balloon blown away in Fuzhou, E China, as #TyphoonMeranti approaches. Moonless #MidAutumnFestival? pic.twitter.com/5YqrYAuRdk— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) September 14, 2016The annual...
View ArticleThere Are Rivers of Blood Flowing in Bangladesh
@OnlineMagazin🆘‼️🐸 Streets of #Dhaka turned into a blood river, because animal sacrifice & rain, after #EidAlAdha. pic.twitter.com/xyxb8RpXUQ— Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) September 14, 2016In...
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8 Scale Models That Make Nature More Manageable
A scale model of the mighty Mississippi on Mud Island. (Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki/CC BY 3.0)Before computers it was difficult to map out things like geography and topography. Illustrated maps were...
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Joseph Smith's Vermont Hometown Is Being Transformed Into a Modern Mormon Utopia
A view of the proposed community in Sharon, Vermont. (Photo: Courtesy The New Vistas Foundation)About 140 miles northwest of Boston sits the tiny hamlet of Sharon, Vermont. Built along the banks of the...
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Did We Just Witness the Birth of a Black Hole?
A proud parent? (Photo: European Southern Observatory/CC BY 2.0)Mazel tov! Scientist may have just witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time. According to Science Alert, astronomers have...
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Across Human Language, Some Basic Vocabulary Words Sound the Same
Words, man. (Photo: Pixabay/Public domain)A new study looked at basic vocabulary words from around two-thirds of all the languages in the world and considered, more thoroughly than anyone had before, a...
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There's a Big Sperm Shortage in New Zealand
(Photo: Bobjgalindo/CC BY-SA 2.0)Donating sperm in New Zealand isn't the easiest of processes. For one, you have to submit to a battery of medical tests, some of which can be time-consuming, and, to...
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Exploring the Strange Pleasures of Cockaigne, a Medieval Peasant's Dream World
A 16th-century vision of Cockaigne as a land of shameful laziness and sloth. (Photo: Pieter Bruegel/Public Domain)The dream of the common person’s utopia was more than a little bit different during...
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The World's Oldest Man is About to Have a Belated Bar Mitzvah
Yisrael Kristal with his award certificate. (Photo: Guinness World Records)What's the secret to a long life? No one knows, though maybe it's candy. That's because the world's current oldest man,...
View ArticleWatch the Magic of Metal Chain-Making
This is not a task you'd want to tackle by hand. Metal chain-making requires intense heat and intense pressure. There is a reason those chains are so hard to break. This machine heats and bends red-hot...
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Why the Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom
Tibet Road in the Himalayas, photographed in 1867 by Samuel Bourne. (Photo: Museum of Photographic Arts/Public Domain)On December 1923, two unlikely travelers arrived in Darjeeling, India intent on...
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The Fascinating '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult
Ruth Norman, a.k.a. Archangel Uriel, and some Unariuns dressed up for a psychodrama.In the early ‘80s, American channel surfers began to encounter some pretty out-there public-access programming from a...
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One of the Earliest Science Fiction Books Was Written in the 1600s by a Duchess
Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. (Photo: Public Domain)No one could get into philosophical argument with Lady Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and walk away unchanged....
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The Battle Over How Flat Kansas Is
The view from Mount Sunflower, Kansas's highest elevation. (Image: CC0)Geographer Jerry Dobson had barely started his new job at the University of Kansas when a realization hit. Whenever he told...
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Photographing the 'Lost Utopias' of the Remaining World's Fairs
New York 1964 World’s Fair, Peace Through Understanding, Unisphere, 2009. (All Photos: © Jade Doskow/Courtesy Black Dog Publishing) “I have seen the future”: these words appeared in blue capitalized...
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In 2016, the 'First Legal Ayahuasca Church' Got Shut Down. Was It a Scam—or a...
The view from Ayahuasca Healings' Elbe retreat. (Photo: Gabriel Ng/Just 2 Guys Creative)When people drink ayahuasca tea, the psychoactive, plant-based Amazonian drink, they have visions. Sometimes,...
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