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9 of the Year's Best Photographs of Buildings
Most architectural photography these days is about capturing a building's "hero shot," that single perfect image and angle where the light flits through the glass and, for a second, real life looks...
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11 Sci-Fi Films That Actually Deserve Reboots
Hollywood's favorite pastime is remaking movies, or at the very least, slapping on another sequel and making millions. While that's all fun and good—I'm looking forward to the new Star Wars, Jurassic...
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The Forgotten Space Artist Who Envisioned the End of the Space Race
In the fourth piece of our series on legendary aerospace artists, we pay tribute to an illustrator who's responsible for creating some of the most inspiring cutaway illustrations of all time—yet we...
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Rare World War I Propaganda Shows the Biomech Soldier of 100 Years Ago
One hundred years ago, at the beginning of the 20th century, the first golden age of advertising met humanity's deadliest conflict: the First World War. The emerging art of graphic design, aided by...
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The Weirdest Stuff We've Launched Into Space
From the minute we started sending humans into space, authorized and unauthorized paraphernalia have gone with them. Even unmanned spacecraft hauled oddities to the far reaches of our solar system....
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Happy Birthday Ames! Awesome Photos From 75 Years of Aerospace Research
On the 20th of December, 1939, the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was founded. The facility at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California, would later be known...
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7 Wonderful Gadget Stories to Warm Your Holiday Heart
Technology is a great gift to give for the holidays. It can provide hours, and days, and weeks, of entertainment and even help inspire kids for a lifetime.Read more...
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Nothing Is Better Than These 80s Internet Depictions of Technology
Ever spend time imagining what the world was like the year you popped into it? I love it. Because man, 1983 was ridiculous. And terrible. And awesome. Michael Jackson did his first moonwalk. AOL,...
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The Coolest Churches, Mosques, And Synagogues of the Year
Religion is changing—from the stained glass industry to Portlandia's perfect parody of a desperate pastor's plea that "church is an option." At the same time, there's been a major renaissance in...
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9 of the Weirdest Wikipedia Pages We've Ever Seen
With the right state of mind, enough time on your hands, and a can-do attitude/darkened worldview, your casual Wikipedia browsing can quickly devolve into hours spent amongst the site's weird,...
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The Spectacular Art of Painting With Soap Bubbles
If you don't know how they're made, Jiří Georg Dokoupil's paintings might look like microscope photos of phosphorescent deep-sea hydrozoa, or maybe computer-generated cartoon characters. Turns out,...
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American Architects Pick the 11 Best Buildings of the Year
There's no better compliment—and no more blistering insult—than one from your peers, especially when it comes to professions that trade in super-specialized knowledge like architecture. So when your...
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The 25th Anniversary Icehotel Features An Ice Movie Theatre
This year marks the 25th anniversary of crazy Swedes building an entire hotel out of ice each fall. In celebration of decades of mostly redundant work, they've made an extra-special 25th anniversary...
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To Fix Midtown, You Must First Break Midtown
New York has fantastic public transit. It's by far the best in the country. Sorry not sorry. But there is one way in which it falls short: There are meagre ways to get across town, especially at...
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These Failures Are the Worst Sports Mascots Ever Designed
Creating a good, crowd-rousing, kid-pleasing mascot is more difficult than it might appear. Some just look too goofy. Others fall into the lowest crevasse in Uncanny Valley and scare the shit out of...
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9 Gadgets (and Other Tech) to Be Excited About in 2015
2015 is the year of the Future, thanks to that one rambunctious, time-traveling teen with a hoverboard. As we're still in the opening moments of 2015, we're allowed to be hopeful. Last year we saw a...
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37 Rare and Beautiful Images of the NYC Subway in the 1980s
When most people think of the subway in the 1980s, they think of scary things. A few years ago The New York Times likened the state of the city to "a house of horrors." But as a newly published set of...
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The Eerie Ruins of 11 Abandoned Hotels
Tourism is a funny thing. Sometimes hot spots are hot, prompting opportunistic developers to build. And sometimes they're not. (The outbreak of a civil war is a great way to shut down a tourist...
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What You Can See From the Tallest Observation Decks On Earth
It's only been a few years since humans could climb more than half a mile above the surface of the Earth without the help of jet fuel. It's easy to forget that buildings that reach this high into the...
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