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99% invisible : Roman Mars takes listener and staff questions for a fifteenth anniversary special  fire and ice : immigration raids in the U...

The fleet of self-driving murderbots already incendiary enough in both the figurative and literal sense have been making for some spectac...

On his first domestic trips returning to office and flanked by Melania in another hat and the evangelist from his inaugural, Trump visitin...

It was refreshing how in the Roman Empire dictators would prolong their term by declaring a holiday, instead we have a president-elect ...

cryptobiosis : a nematode was reanimated when pulled out of the Siberia permafrost after forty-six thousand years  fresh air, town square :...

all the things that we’ve amassed sit before us, shattered to ash : interviews from celebrities who lost their homes in the Los Angeles me...

a stranger quest : an award-winning documentary about map collector David Rumsey ( previously ) available in full online  stimulation clicke...

pacific palisades : southern California wildfires kept at bay from the Getty compound and vast holdings of antiquities   we still dance o...

Premiering on this day in 1974, the disaster film ( see previously ) directed by John Guillermin ( King Kong , The Bridge at Remagen ) and ...

Via Quantum of Sollazzo , we are directed to a highly visual piece of reporting from Reuters highlighting the dangers and deficiencies in ...

A wildfire detection device made of wax and charcoal, taking its inspiration from the botanical function of pyriscence (a type of ser...

indemnity clause : a look at the exactingly detailed Sanborn maps created for US insurance firms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centu...

⏈ : play around for a moment with the Water web toy—via Miss Cellania and the Everlasting Blört   green new deal : modelled on FDR’s Civ...

miracle house : a singular property that survived the devastating wildfires opened up to the community as a beacon of hope for a destroyed L...

latent stage—this is where boys and doing boy stuff, girls are doing girl stuff and most children typically purchase their second firearm :...

reagan candy : the Taiwanese term for jelly babies   treuhand : the privatisation of East Germany and the long reach of its consequences—...

all star festival : the 1963 charity concert sponsored by the UN for refugee aid with headliners Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day and Louis Armstr...

The largest extant medieval manuscript in the world, this “giant book” ( Obří kniha ) was saved from destruction when the medieval royal pa...

Fêted on this day on the occasion of his martyrdom by drowning in the River Enns in the year 304, Florianus from the ancient Roman outpost ...

Translating to summer’s day in Albanian, the springtime rite with pre-Christian origins is observed on this day and corresponds to the begi...