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Abigail Mendoza, world renowned Zapotec chef
Mexico’s Zapotecs are an indigenous community living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Before Spanish colonization, Zapotecan civilization was a thriving epicenter of food, culture and tradition. Today, chef Abigail...
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How are tomatoes grown and harvested?
Plum-style tomatoes are grown and harvested in California, where 95% of America’s processing tomatoes are grown. The process in the term ‘processing’ is a combination of tomato type—plum tomatoes are...
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My Grandfather’s Memory Book
It’s hard to picture my grandfather without a sketchbook in his hands. He was always drawing. Gramps lived for 94 years — long enough to experience the Great Depression and the Great Recession, the...
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Making ice cream from a 350-year-old recipe
“To make icy cream… Take three pints of the best cream, boyle it with a blade of mace, or else perfume it with orang flower water…” This begins the 350-year-old recipe for ice cream, “thought to be the...
View ArticleHow do roller coasters affect your body?
In 1895, crowds flooded Coney Island to see America’s first-ever looping coaster: the Flip Flap Railway. But its thrilling flip caused cases of severe whiplash, neck injury and even ejections. Today,...
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Tableaux Vivants: Caravaggio paintings performed live
Actors from the Italian theater company Ludovica Rambelli Teatro recreate paintings by Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, or, more accurately, they’re recreating how Caravaggio created...
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Blaze Tarsha: A Portrait of an Aerialist
Aerialist Blaze Tarsha began pursuing a life in the circus arts when her mother, a professional chef, first cooked for a juggling convention. To keep herself busy, schoolgirl Tarsha learned how to ride...
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Defacing coins like a British suffragette
Stamped in crude lettering across the head of the king is the phrase ‘VOTES FOR WOMEN’, the slogan of the suffragette movement. The deliberate targeting of the king, as the constitutional monarch and...
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Magic Lantern Slides
Magic lantern slides brought the world to life in pictures. The first lantern slides were created in the 1600s, around 200 years before photography was invented and they provided spectacular...
View ArticleTraveling Through Brush and Ink: Stop-motion set in four ancient Chinese...
Traveling Through Brush and Ink is a stop-motion animation of a little modern man traveling through four significant ancient Chinese paintings, transforming himself into animals and plants, and becomes...
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Dinosaurs probably didn’t roar. What did they sound like?
If birds are living dinosaurs—”the only survivors of the mass extinction that wiped out their giant relatives 65 million years ago”—then did dinosaurs really sound like the roaring mammals that we’ve...
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G-AAAH, a typewritten tribute to aviator Amy Johnson
Pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson worked as a typist for a firm of solicitors before becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930. The distance: 18,000 kilometers (around...
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Mysteries of the world’s biggest dome
How did Filippo Brunelleschi use engineering, design, math, and secrecy to build the world’s biggest dome? “…Experts still don’t fully understand the brilliant methods he used in constructing the dome,...
View ArticleSeven Million Years of Human Evolution
Scientists use fossils to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominins—the group that includes modern humans, our immediate ancestors, and other extinct relatives. Today, our closest living...
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Life Cycle: Ai Weiwei in Los Angeles
Made from the traditional kite-making materials—bamboo and silk—mythical creatures float above large figures in a boat. Millions of sunflower seeds, handmade and painted porcelain pieces made by 1,600...
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Why does T-Rex have tiny arms?
“Tyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms.” In this PBS Eons episode, Hank Green explains how the Tyrannosaurus rex lost its arms over the course of...
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Building a wigwam, a time lapse
A dome made from tree saplings, grasses, bark, buckskin, cloth, and other available local materials, the wigwam was a seasonal structure used by many Native American cultures in the North Eastern...
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How micromosaics are made
It would be easy to mistake a ‘Micromosaic’ for a painting: put together from thousands of minute and very fine glass pieces, the finished product is characterised by such an astonishing level of...
View ArticleThe revealing world of dinosaur poop (coprolites)
In Choteau, Montana, there’s a fossil quarry that’s famous for an epic discovery: the very first baby dinosaurs found in a nest. This fossilized evidence was pivotal in our understanding of how some...
View ArticleWhat does ‘Auld Lang Syne’ mean?
After the ball drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, the crowd cheers, couples kiss, confetti flies and the song you hear is “Auld Lang Syne.” For Americans this song is associated with another year...
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