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When Prehistoric Lacewings Disguised Themselves as Middle-Jurassic...

September 10, 2020

Around 165 million years ago, the land that is now the fossil-filled Jiulongshan Formation, near the village of Daohugou in Inner Mongolia, was covered with lichens, mosses, and liverworts. Above that shaggy, pillowy surface was a wash of green: fern fronds, conifers, and ginkgophytes, including vanished relatives of modern gingkos. (It looked a bit like the present-day Olympic Peninsula in western Washington—lush, with nary a petal in sight.) Flowering plants wouldn’t show up for another 40 million years, but...

Japan Is Combating Rural Decline With a...

September 10, 2020

If you ask Lynn Ng which flavor of soft cream is her favorite, she’ll probably say scallop. “It’s actually really delicious despite seeming like such an incompatible mix,” she says. Three years ago, Ng and I worked together as assistant language teachers at a technical high school in Hokkaido. This meant we spent weekends on the roads of Hokkaido in her blue Passo. Hokkaido is Japan’s northernmost prefecture, an island comprising more than 20 percent of the nation’s landmass...

Stott Hall Farm in Ripponden, England

September 10, 2020

If you drive along the M62 motorway, on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire, between junctions 22 and 23, you’ll be greeted with an unusual sight: a farm in the middle of the motorway, sandwiched by multi-lane roads on both sides. When the M62 was built on the moors above Huddersfield in the late 1960s, the engineers forked the road to avoid the centuries-old farmhouse, known as Stott Hall Farm. With millions of motorists driving by, it quickly became a local...

Cleft Ridge Span in Brooklyn, New...

September 10, 2020

The bridges of Prospect Park run the gamut from rustic to elaborate, but one phrase not usually used to describe them is technologically groundbreaking. However, the Cleft Ridge Span is just that. The bridge’s elaborate tile work isn’t composed of terra cotta or carved stone but cast concrete; a new advent at the time of the span’s construction. The idea to use cast concrete was an experiment of sorts. Originally, the plan was to use brick or granite, but park...

Found: The Rare Singing Dogs of New...

September 10, 2020

James McIntyre first heard about the singing dogs of New Guinea in 1996. More than two decades passed before he finally saw one in person. There were near misses before: anecdotal sightings, scatological evidence, camera trap snapshots, and the occasional eerie, prolonged vocalizations that give the animals their name all hinted at their existence. But the breakthrough moment finally came in 2018, when McIntyre’s troupe of field biologists came across the canids at 14,000 feet, sniffing around a high-altitude...

Piazza Matteotti in Imola, Italy

September 10, 2020

Between 1499 and 1501 Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander IV, defeated Caterina Sforza, Lady of Imola and Countess of Forli, to conquer Romagna. After his victory, he appointed Leonardo da Vinci to the position of General Architect and Engineer. In 1502, he ordered him to study the fortification of the region. One of his first tasks was to draw a map of the city of Imola. This moment would change cartography forever. Previously, maps representing the...

Intighet (Nothingness) in Lund, Sweden

September 10, 2020

Every city is filled with statues and plaques that commemorate important locations, events, and history. These memorials are placed by local governments in public places or by landowners on private property. During the 1980s, a major debate ensued over the location of such a monument in Lund. The discussion of what to place on Kraft torg was a long one. Some suggested an equestrian statue of Cnut the Great, but others were opposed. The discussions dragged on for so...

Avatar Secret Garden in Tanjung Bungah, Malaysia

September 10, 2020

If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to traverse the dreamscape setting featured in the 2009 film Avatar, filled with illuminated trees, plants, and magical creatures, then Penang’s Avatar Secret Garden is the place for you. During the day, this section of rainforest along Tanjung Tokong’s quiet side streets, meters away from the rocky coastline, appears ordinary. By night, this section of rainforest transforms int0 a sea of fiber optics, neon, and fairy lights glowing in various...

Can America’s Premier Lightning Lab Revive Its...

September 9, 2020

As a thunderstorm boils up into the mountains of central New Mexico, the researchers at Langmuir Laboratory are checking their rockets, climbing into a steel bunker below the launch pad, and waiting for the right moment to fire into the clouds, hoping that lightning will strike back. From the glass cupola of a control tower about a mile away, Langmuir staff scan the nearby trails for hikers, and signal a five-minute window to the bunker crew. “Everything has to...

For Sale: Biggie’s Crown, and Other Icons...

September 9, 2020

On March 6, 1997, photographer Barron Claiborne welcomed Christopher Wallace—also known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls—to his New York studio. Together, the pair unknowingly made history. Claiborne took a series of portraits of Biggie wearing a plastic crown and posing as the “King of New York.” “I used to think he looked like a big king,” says Claiborne. That’s all there was behind the now-ubiquitous image. If others had had their way, however, the photos would have...

Moqui Cave in Kanab, Utah

September 9, 2020

Just off Highway 89 in southern Utah, the Moqui Cave invites tourists to visit a natural wonder that is presented as a “museum depicting life in southern Utah spanning the centuries.” Inside are Native American artifacts, fossils, and one of the largest collections of fluorescent minerals in the United States. Once used by the Anasazi people for storage and shelter, the cave was rediscovered by settlers during the early 19th-century. It was then transformed into a speakeasy. Since 1951,...

Shrine of the Blessed Mother in Pittsburgh,...

September 9, 2020

Also known as Our Lady in the Parkway Shrine, this beloved memorial dedicated to the Virgin Mary rests atop a hill overlooking Interstate 376. Not only is this shrine well cared for, as is evident by the manicured shrubs, beautifully imperfect brick path, and various religious displays, but also offers an amazing view of the surrounding region. The shrine is a tranquil spot overlaid with the constant hum of cars racing below. The shrine was created in 1956 by Anna...

Odiham Pest House in Odiham, England

September 9, 2020

In the days before modern medicine, catching plague, smallpox, leprosy, or tuberculosis could prove a death sentence, or leave a sufferer with lifelong complications. Across the United Kingdom and the United States, communities came up with a solution to halt the spread of disease: the pest house. These small dwellings, some used into the 20th century, were where people suffering from contagious diseases could stay while they were traveling or if they needed to be isolated from their communities....

Nymphaeum of Egeria in Rome, Italy

September 9, 2020

The ruin of a 2nd-century nymphaeum is among the most visible sights of Herodes Atticus’ Triopium, a vast estate near the Appia Antica in Rome. Herodes Atticus inherited the vast holding from his wife, the powerful and renowned Annia Regilla. Herodes Atticus, also a famous sophist at the time, had been invited to Rome to tutor the two adopted sons of Antoninus Pius, the future emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. In Rome, he married the 14-year old Regilla,...

Shrine to Saint Andrew in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 9, 2020

In an ornate display, the ancient remains of Saint Andrew are located in a corner of St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral. Saint Andrew was a follower of Jesus Christ, one of the original 12 apostles. He also happens to be the patron saint of Scotland and the device he was sacrificed on is featured on the country’s flag. This inverted white cross is called the Saltire, and this white “X” appears on the Union Jack, the national flag of the...

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