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[Image: The brick-arched entryway to a "mysterious Chinese tunnel" in the Pacific Northwest (via)].72 years ago, a man named William Zimmerman sat down to tell a story about "mysterious Chinese tunnels" to the U.S. government. That interview was cond...
Back in March, Pruned posted a short video of a Japanese earthquake van – a video which I'll embed here for ease of reference:So if you don't know what, say, a 9.0 earthquake really feels like – and, thus, what you'd need to do to stay...
Some of the coolest photographs I've seen recently are these long exposure shots of crowds in St. Petersburg, Russia. They were taken by Alexey Titarenko for a project called "City of Shadows."
[Image: Airfield at Guantanamo Bay converted for the quarantine of 10,000 Haitian migrants; via Wikimedia].
Krista Maglen is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, where her research explores the nature of infectious disease prevention,...
[Image: The Key Lake uranium mine].
I'm in the process of finishing Tom Zoellner's new book Uranium, and I'm finding it extremely hard to put down. A beautifully written history of the radioactive mineral used in nuclear weapons, it includes some...
[Image: London's Fourth Plinth, via Google Image search].
In an odd coincidence with the previous post, I actually saw a show at the American Museum of Natural History's planetarium yesterday—an experience which reminded me not only how much I love...
[Image: A flood strikes Manhattan; image via New York magazine]/.
Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, who is interviewed in The BLDGBLOG Book, has a new album out with Matt Shadetek—and he's suddenly everywhere. The newest issue of New York magazine, for...
[Image: The multiple-shadow casting cube by Niloy Mitra and Mark Pauly].
Spotted via New Scientist is an amazing new computer model that allows designers to create objects based on the multiple and highly specific shadows that those objects will cast...