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Navigating Brooklyn from the 17th to the 21st Centuries
Brooklyn has long touted its status as the unofficial fourth largest city in the United States, if not for the so-called "great mistake of 1898" — the consolidation of New York City.
Allison Meier
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You Can Kickstart an Urban Human Compost Center
At death in the United States we are faced with two options: burial or cremation.
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An Architectural Competition to Reimagine the World's Most Remote Human Settlement
Despite an active volcano, intense winds, and a location 10 days by boat from its nearest neighbor, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas — the most remote human settlement in the world — has endured for nearly two centuries.
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Drawings by a Ladies’ Man: Impressions of Leonard Cohen
Alongside his prolific career as a singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen has been a poet, a novelist, a monk in Los Angeles, and, perhaps most obscurely, an artist.
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Undermined by Mining, Swedish Town Plans to Move Two Miles East
Kiruna, Sweden, must move or be destroyed. The state-run LKAB iron ore mine that was the impetus for the town in 1900 has dug so far below its streets, residents have to move or risk plunging into the earth.
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How to Build a Cocktail, Visualized
Back in 1974, a curious construction-style chart of cocktails was made by some employees of the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
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Sum of the Arts
People who saw a Ming Dynasty painting and calligraphy show at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2014, making it the most popular exhibition of the year = 1,131,788
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Impressions of New York City Streets Captured in Clay
Artists Liene Bosquê and Nicole Seisler are roaming the streets of the Lower East Side in April with a cart full of clay, ready to be pressed by willing hands onto the built environment.
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Crystal Balls of Cast-off Technology Illuminate a Park in Manhattan
Experiencing Paula Hayes’s Gazing Globes in Madison Square Park is recommended for after sunset, when the spheres are illuminated in the night like crystal balls of divination.
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Sketches for First Mac Icons Acquired by MoMA
When Susan Kare sketched the icons for the first Macintosh computer back in the early 1980s, she only had basic black-and-white pixels to create a universal user language.
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The Funerals of Artists
As a last statement, our funerals are remarkable as much for their uniformity as for their conclusion of highly personal lives.
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India's Death Photographers Working Amid the Cremation Flames of the Ganges
Arriving with dance and music, draped in orange and pink flowers, the dead keep constant company in Varanasi, India, where cremations happen by the hundred each day on the Ganges River.