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Fleeting Wonders: A Meeting of the Secret International Tortoise Assembly?
A member of the Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company posing with Sulley, finally found a mile from home. (Photo: the Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company)It was a busy weekend in the tortoise world, with not...
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In 500 Years, the Sierras' Stores of Snow Have Never Been This Low
The Sierra Nevadas (Photo: François B. Lanoë/Nature Climate Change)As if there needed to be one more sign that man-made climate change is making the world a very different place to live, a new study...
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Langholmen Crash Site in Stockholm, Sweden
An air show during the Stockholm Water Festival in 1993 could have ended in catastrophe but miraculously, it missed almost everyone. Långholmen, a lush green island located in central Stockholm is an...
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Entombed Cross in Stockholm, Sweden
Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm's Forest Cemetery, is in itself a beautiful spot, but there's one thing that makes discerning death metal fans from all over the world pilgrimage here: a giant metal cross...
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Here’s What Goes on Inside a Forest When a Massive Wildfire Hits
Elk in Montana. (Photo: Brocken Inaglory/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 3.0)When the Elk Complex fire tore past Pine, Idaho, in August of 2013, it was fueled by windy, dry conditions and an abundance of...
View Article100 Wonders: Blood Falls
Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed a small body of brackish water beneath it. That water contained an ancient community of microbes. Inside a natural time capsule, with no light, no...
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Object of Intrigue: Fearsome and Fabulous Renaissance Helmets
Sixteenth century Roman Empire ruler Charles V ponders his next armor purchase. (Image: Detail from a Titian painting/Public domain)When Holy Roman Emperor Charles V wanted to look particularly bad-ass...
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The Cuckold of Skeppsbron in Stockholm, Sweden
For all the people who have processed their heartbreak through art of questionable taste, no one's ever done it quite like the patron of a histrionic carving in Stockholm's Old Town. If you peek above...
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The Duke, the Landscape Architect and the World's Most Ambitious Attempt to...
Last fall, a hand-picked group of the world's top theoretical physicists received an invitation to a conference about the multiverse, a subject to which many of them had devoted the majority of their...
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Lydia Locke, the Turn of the Century Opera Singer With a Soap Opera Life
Lydia Locke, Turn of the Century Scandal Factory (All newspaper clipping images courtesy of Jim Logan and the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery)Getting married seven times is a little excessive—especially when...
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FOUND: Who Does This Dennis the Menace Statue Belong To?
Whose Dennis the Menace is this? (Photo: City of Monterey)All the way back in 1956, Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace, helped establish a playground in Monterey, California, that riffed on...
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The Hidden Eschers of Leiden in Leiden, Netherlands
Hidden away in some otherwise unremarkable corners of the Leiden city hall in the Netherlands, are some fairly unknown wood works by one of the greatest artists to ever grace a high school student's...
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Fleeting Wonders: NASA Says Astropoop Turns Into Shooting Stars
Image via NASAUntil March 2016, when you wish upon a star, you may actually be wishing on Scott Kelly's feces.NASA has released a new infographic with handy facts about astronaut Scott Kelly's...
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Salse di Nirano in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
In the Italian Badlands, a field lures visitors with its siren song of strange burps and gurgles emanating from deep inside the Earth. Established as the first natural reserve in Emilia-Romagna, in the...
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See Avant-Garde Soviet Bus Shelters Before They Disappear
Disputed region of Abkhazia Pitsunda. (All photos: Christopher Herwig) When photographer Christopher Herwig challenged himself to shoot at least one “interesting” image per hour hour during a cycling...
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Love Locks of Västerbron in Stockholm, Sweden
Love locks can be found in cities all over the world but usually not on a bridge mostly known for the suicides committed there.Stockholm's Västerbron Bridge has long maintained a reputation for being a...
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Satsop Nuclear Power Plant in Elma, Washington
Billed as the ultimate reuse story, the Satsop Business Park has successfully transformed from an almost-finished nuclear power plant to an industrial center, technology campus, and workforce training...
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What Makes Rabbits So Rascally?
Rabbits mass menacingly in the Australian twilight. (Photo: CSIRO/CC BY 3.0)In 1859, Thomas Austin made a very small decorative decision with very large consequences. Austin was a British expat living...
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Forsby-Köping Limestone Cableway in Sweden
The Forsby-Köping limestone cableway was once the longest cableway in the world but is now only just an industrial scar running through an otherwise bucolic landscape.In 1939, a 26-mile-long cableway...
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