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The Cambrian Creatures That Grew Up Over...

July 30, 2020

With any luck, humans change a lot over the course of our time on Earth. As we grow out of our teeny onesies and our teenage styles, the aging process can feel a lot like shedding a past self. But other creatures literally do that: step out of their bodies and grow into a new one. For trilobites—marine arthropods that appeared in the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago—molting was a key part of growing up. Trilobites...

The Ancient Greek Temples Home to Orchards,...

July 30, 2020

Archaeological ruins are rocks artfully placed and artfully collapsed. Since the Romantics, they have been sites of imagination where we conjure the past. At the Valley of the Temples, which has occupied a ridge outside the city of Agrigento, Italy, for 2,500 years, visitors come to admire the Doric columns and see the stunning Greek structures that have stood through weather and war. What they see is the skeleton of a long-gone society. Tour guides and didactic panels describe...

The Woman Who Changed the Way We...

July 30, 2020

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there are good reasons to learn more. Most tsunamis start with earthquakes under or near the ocean floor. The seafloor provides habitat for fish, corals and complex communities of microbes, crustaceans, and other organisms. Its topography controls currents that distribute heat, helping to regulate Earth’s climate. July 30 marks the 100th anniversary...

The Original Ornäsbjork in Borlänge, Sweden

July 30, 2020

Like people, trees and plants can be born with mutations that alter their appearance and functions. The Ornäsbjork is a prime example of such a mutation: a normal silver birch that has rather unique pointy leaves. This birch was discovered by Hans Gustaf Hiordt, Dalarnas County secretary in 1767. Understanding the magnitude of what he had found, he transferred the tree to his land and notified biologists. Carl Linnaeus, the famed Swedish botanist and zoologist who devised the system of binomial...

Never Again Statue in Albadarr, The Gambia

July 30, 2020

Inscribed on the base of this unique statue are the words “Never Again!” It stands as a reminder to the horrors of slavery faced by the people who once lived in this region of the country. This eye-catching statue is located on the mainland of The Gambia, facing the Kunta Kinteh Island. The island was once a key location during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slaves were often imprisoned on the island before being transported to the United States. The...

Lake Akan Ainu Kotan in Kushiro, Japan

July 30, 2020

The Ainu people live in the northernmost parts of Japan, mainly on the island of Hokkaidō, with around 25,000 and 200,000 people left belonging to this indigenous group. They were originally hunter-gatherers with their own language and rich culture living in larger areas. However, during the 19th-century, the Japanese government drove them further into the north to colonize the frontier. The Ainu were stripped of their lands, culture, and traditional way of life. It was not until April 2019...

Glenwood Institute in Matawan, New Jersey

July 30, 2020

Garret Augustus Hobart was born in Long Branch, New Jersey on June 3, 1844. Hobart, who grew up in nearby Marlboro, held a number of elected positions in his home state leading up to his election as Vice President of the United States under President William McKinley in 1896. As vice president, the good-natured Hobart was well-respected in Washington D.C., and considered a close friend and advisor to the president. Tragically, Hobart’s time in office was cut short, when...

Silverpilen (Silver Arrow) in Nordingrå, Sweden

July 30, 2020

Many cities have their own local ghost stories tied to specific locations. Take Stockholm and its Kymlinge Metro Station, which is said to host a silver phantom train that passed through. Like many ghost stories, this one even has a kernel of truth. The Silverpilen is a special model C5 metro train that was manufactured in the mid-1960s. It was made of aluminum as a proof-of-concept for lighter, and therefore more efficient, operation. For unknown reasons, the train was never...

A University is Turning Historical Mexican Recipes...

July 29, 2020

In February, Gastro Obscura broke the exciting news that the University of Texas, San Antonio had begun the mammoth task of digitizing the largest collection of historic Mexican cookbooks in the United States. While the spread of COVID-19 has since brought that project to a screeching halt, the university is now turning their handwritten recipes into free e-books. The UTSA Libraries released the first of the mini-cookbooks earlier this month. Postres: Guardando Lo Mejor Para el Principio, or “Desserts:...

The Surprising Importance of Skunks in the...

July 29, 2020

In September of 1833, bands of Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Odawa, and other Anishinaabe and Algonquin peoples gathered in a small fur-trapping town called Chicago, where a shimmering prairie met a vast inland sea. After weeks of coercion, they signed the Treaty of Chicago, transferring to the U.S. government 15 million acres of territory they had inhabited since time immemorial. Though the treaty forced them west, their names for that river—and the town it ran through—stuck. According to some histories of...

For Sale: The Most Haunted Mansion in...

July 29, 2020

Anyone in the market for 63 acres of pure emerald Ireland is in luck: A 22-bed mansion on the isle’s southeastern edge is up for sale, for a cool $2.87 million. Pulling that price up or down, depending on your perspective, is the site’s rather interesting history. The mansion, known as Loftus Hall, goes back to the 12th century, and has seen several regime changes over the years. The most infamous chapter in its history, no doubt, comes from...

Fa’side Castle in East Lothian, Scotland

July 29, 2020

The Fawside family were owners of this property after Scottish leader Robert the Bruce’s rebellion. The Fawsides oversaw the construction of the general plan of the modern-day castle during the 16th-century. During the Rough Wooing between 1544-1548, an English faction burned the Fa’side castle prior to the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh. A fortification stood at the site prior to the castle’s construction that dated back to the late 12th-century and the first Earl of Winchester. The location has also been...

The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature...

July 29, 2020

Since 2010, Indianapolis residents and visitors have been able to enjoy contemporary artwork against the backdrop of unruly nature at the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. The park brings together the great outdoors with site-specific art installations that invite visitors to examine the unique relationship between art and the natural world. No “stay off the sculpture” signs will be found here, as many of the installations aim to draw visitors to the artwork; first to climb or...

Raton Iridium Layer in Raton, New Mexico

July 29, 2020

Atop Goat Hill in Raton, New Mexico lies a layer of rock that tells a story that is guaranteed to intrigue more than just ardent geologists. A thin layer of iridium-rich rock calls this hill home. It’s the type of layer only found in several places across the world. Radiometric dating of these layers found that they actually mark the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods. An anomalous iridium layer was first discovered in the 1980s in Gubbio,...

IBM Building 025 in San Jose, California

July 29, 2020

On March 8, 2008, a fire consumed IBM Building 025. Now, in a parking lot in south San José, between a Lowe’s and an AutoZone, a tiny monument memorializes what was once Silicon Valley’s pioneering tech campus. Built in 1957, the campus was the design of the architect John S. Bolles. Under the mandate of IBM’s president, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., he was instructed to blend “architecture, landscape and art into an employee-friendly environment,” notes an explanatory display sign. If that...

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