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HaliPuu’s Campfire Barista in Sirkka, Finland

July 24, 2020

Steffan Wunderink runs a truly one-of-a-kind cafe, if you can call it that. The “Campfire Barista” makes cafe-quality coffees, teas, and more over an open fire that he drags behind a snowmobile through a forest in the far northern reaches of Finland. It’s not just any forest, though. The forest belongs to his wife’s grandfather, Kaarle Raekallio. The Finnish state gave his family the forest after they lost their home during World War II. After spending decades raising the...

Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome, Italy

July 24, 2020

Constructed during the age of Imperial Rome, the Temple of Minerva Medica once stood on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was mentioned by Cicero and several other sources but eventually became lost at some point. However, the Temple of Minerva Medica is still on the Roman map. Except it’s not really the Temple of Minerva Medica—but a ruined 4th-century nymphaeum building, consecrated to the mythical nymphs and connected to the water supply. No ancient literature or inscriptions mention...

How a Viral Tweet Brought Back a...

July 23, 2020

On September 28, 1883, a series of simple advertisements appeared in the Calgary Herald, placed between short paragraphs about tinsmiths, loggers, and hunters in the area. They were concise, staccato statements, mesmerizing in their rhythmic placement amidst the news of the day. Cronk is the drink. Dr. Cronk. Try Cronk. Cronk is good. And simply, Cronk. The ads promoted a sweet, mildly alcoholic soda that once captured North America’s attention, much like Coca-Cola would do in the next century....

Subterranean Scans Reveal New Mysteries at an...

July 23, 2020

On a cold and wet day in March 2018, a van crammed with equipment and Scottish and Irish archaeologists rolled up alongside Navan Fort, a prominent hilltop settlement in Northern Ireland that’s not far from the modern border with Ireland. A ringed enclosure that sits on a tall hill in the countryside, Navan Fort is easy to pick out. It was one of the ceremonial centers of pre-Gaelic Ireland, and even has a visitor’s center today. But that March,...

Stanbury Jacko in Geelong, Australia

July 23, 2020

An hour outside of Melbourne is the satellite city of Geelong. Known today as a commercial center and industrial port, Geelong was once the prosperous hub of all wool production in Australia. Honoring the city’s proud textile and manufacturing history, the National Wool Museum exhibits the industry’s trials and tribulations—from Australia’s colonial days to the wool production boom of the 1950s, through the industry’s collapse in the 1990s. Among the 19th-century shearing tools, spinning wheels, and modern machinery stands...

Twilight Epiphany Skyspace in Houston, Texas

July 23, 2020

Artist James Turrell, with his “Skyspace” installations, creates meditative yet subtly kinetic spaces in which to observe and contemplate as the Earth’s rotation, with continuous changes in light angle and quality. This installation, part of the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion, on the campus of Rice University, was designed to host musical performances. In consists of a pyramidal grassy mound, topped by an elevated square roof with a square hole in the middle, and two viewing spaces below. Each...

From Mining Hellscape to Holiday Paradise

July 23, 2020

Near the harbor of Großräschen, a small town in Brandenburg, Germany, you can walk through the stately entrance of the Seehotel and place a two-euro coin on the front desk. In return, a receptionist will lead you behind a locked door, where you can see the Mona Lisa. A few rooms on the ground floor of the hotel are filled with paintings by the Posin brothers, a trio of Russian artists who copied the Old Masters in their studio...

Grave of Charles Piazzi Smyth in Sharow,...

July 23, 2020

Sometimes the line between science and conspiracy theories can become blurred. A popular topic where these fields cross is Egyptology and the origin of the pyramids. These days, there are hundreds of theories on how the pyramids were built, varying in levels of plausibility. One of the forefathers of these theories interestingly was both a prominent scientist and someone who had interesting views on the creation of the pyramids. Isaac Newton was the first to suggest in 1704 that...

White Sturgeon and Kokanee Salmon in Revelstoke,...

July 23, 2020

A bend in the Columbia River makes Revelstoke a natural spot for travelers to rest. Revelstoke is the ideal stop for motorists along the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver, Banff, and Calgary. One of the most charming features of Revelstoke’s very walkable downtown is a hand-forged steel sculpture called “White Sturgeon and Kokanee Salmon.” It celebrates two fish extremely important to the region. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America and kokanee is a landlocked salmon. The...

Keramat Iskandar Shah in Singapore, Singapore

July 23, 2020

Located on Fort Canning, known before colonial rule as Bukit Larangan, the Keramat Iskandar Shah is one of the oldest architectural structures in Singapore. John Crawfurd, the second British Resident of Singapore, described it in 1822 as “a rude structure”. Crawfurd was informed that the internee of the keramat was Iskandar Shah, the last King of Singapura who reigned during the late-14th century. After being sacked by Majapahit forces, Shah fled Singapura and established the Melaka Sultanate. Crawfurd and...

Mother and Child in Singapore, Singapore

July 23, 2020

“Mother and Child”, cast in bronze in 1980 is one of two sculptures of the same name sculpted by Dr. Ng Eng Teng. The sculpture makes use of the mother and child motif, common in Singaporean art and is associated with the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). The sculpture explores humanistic themes of emotional attraction and kinship. In particular, Ng emphasized his view that maternal care and nurturing were essential to the growth of individuals and society, symbolized...

Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing...

July 22, 2020

Akash Muralidharan’s quest to find forgotten South Indian vegetables began when he cleaned out his bedroom. It was January 2020, and he had just returned to his home city of Chennai after finishing his master’s degree in Food Design and Innovation in Milan. Like many students returning home after graduation, Muralidharan found that his childhood bedroom had become a storeroom. Muralidharan was clearing space for himself when he spotted it: his grandmother Kamala Natarajan’s copy of Samaithu Par. Published...

Keeping Track of Monument Removals Could Be...

July 22, 2020

Statues have been on Emily Gorcenski’s mind for a while. Three years ago, she was living in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the tumultuous week of protests over the removal of Confederate statues and monuments, during which a white supremacist drove a vehicle into a crowd of peaceful protesters and killed activist Heather Heyer. Seeking to track the judicial progress of hate crime cases, Gorcenski used public records to build First Vigil, a database of legal proceedings related to far-right and...

Museum of Material Failures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

July 22, 2020

Several rooms of a Pittsburgh materials testing laboratory called Matergenics have been dedicated to an unusual collection: 30 years of failure, consisting of broken things and twisted metal. Although it may all look like junk, each item, the materials failure it represents, has a story to tell and a surprising lesson to impart. The hands-on museum contains pieces ranging from a corroded Olympic diving board to exploded gas lines. The museum’s curator, materials scientist and Matergenics owner Mehrooz Zamanzadeh...

Sold: An 1891 Patent by Granville T....

July 22, 2020

Had Granville T. Woods been allowed to focus on his work—and pay less attention to lawsuits—who knows how many more inventions he’d have to his name? The Black American inventor, born in Ohio in 1856, secured more than 60 patents before he died in 1910, at the age of 53. His output ranged from egg incubators to enhancements for telephones and phonographs, though he is now best known for his work on railway systems and transportation safety. In 2004,...

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