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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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Edward Bellamy House in Chicopee, Massachusetts
This former home serves as a reminder that one of the most famous writers of the 19th century was a socialist.Today a modest office building, this unassuming structure was once the home of writer...
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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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Dymaxion House in Dearborn, Michigan
Innovator and thinker Buckminster Fuller had a vision for a future where housing would be affordable, sturdy, and self-sufficient. His prototype for this future was the Dymaxion House, part of his...
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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,...
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Heyri Art Valley in Paju-si, South Korea
The door of artist residence Motif#1 is open. Always. That’s just how it is at the Korean artist compound known as the Heyri Art Valley, where artists live, work, and display their pieces in an...
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Habitat 67 in Montreal, Canada
When you go to Montreal, there’s a strange building on the waterfront that’ll catch your eye. Or maybe that’s what drew you to the city in the first place.Habitat 67 was designed by Moshe Safdie as his...
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Solar One and Solar Two in Daggett, California
Out in the Mojave Desert, the glint of the hundreds of reflectors at solar power plants are almost as common a sight as the Joshua trees. The first large scale solar project to utilize the open spaces...
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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Evoluon in Eindhoven, Netherlands
When Dr. Frits Philips sketched out the rough idea for this UFO-shaped building on a napkin, he was dreaming of the perfect gift to give to the community. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of his...
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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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Akhzivland in Israel
Akhzivland is the brainchild of Eli Avivi, an Iranian-born Jew, whose family moved to Israel in the 1930s. In 1952, Eli Avivi settled at the ruined village of Akhziv, which was destroyed during the...
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Republic of Minerva in Tonga
Although many utopian societies seem doomed from the outset, the Republic of Minerva was up against a unique challenge: Creating a libertarian micronation on reclaimed reefs in the Pacific Ocean, when...
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Coltsville in Hartford, Connecticut
Just off Interstate 91 near Hartford, Connecticut is an architectural oddity that would look more at home in Moscow’s Red Square than alongside a placid section of the Connecticut River. Visible from...
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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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Pensacola Futuro House in Pensacola Beach, Florida
This Futuro House, dubbed the "UFO House" on Google Earth, has withstood many hurricanes since it was erected in the 1960s—which is appropriate since the portable space age structure was originally...
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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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