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7 Not-So-Secret Homes of Super Secret Societies
The clandestine corners of the world where the occult lives. By Cynthia Pelayo.
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Cloud and Field: On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age
We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars? By Shannon Mattern.
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Stories Latent in the Landscape
Spirits, Time Slips, and “Super-Psi.” By Eric Wargo.
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In pictures: Relics of the Soviet era
An exhibition examining the landscape and abandoned spaces of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries opens in London.
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A Terrifying Journey Through the World’s Most Dangerous Jungle
The Darién Gap is one of the world’s most dangerous places, a lawless, roadless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama, teeming with everything from deadly snakes to drug traffickers to antigovernment guerrillas. These days the region is also seeing a steady flow of migrants from Cuba, Africa, and Asia, whose desperation to reach the U.S. sends them on a perilous course through no-man’s-land. Jason Motlagh plunged in, risking robbery, kidnapping, and death to document one of the most harrowing treks on earth.
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100-Year-Old Theatre Converted Into Stunning Bookstore
Tucked away in Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires is a beautiful bookshop called El Ateneo Grand Splendid. It is built within the almost 100-year-old Grand Splendid Theater, which opened in 1919. The theatre was later converted into a cinema and eventually…
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‘The graveyard of the Earth’: inside City 40, Russia’s deadly nuclear secret
Ozersk, codenamed City 40, was the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme. Now it is one of the most contaminated places on the planet – so why do so many residents still view it as a fenced-in paradise? By Samira Goetschel.
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The Dark Secrets of this Now-Empty Island in Maine
Malaga Island was home to a fishing community. But in 1911, a racist pseudoscience and greedy politicians changed all that. By David Jester.
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Come on a Journey to Masdar City, the World’s First Entirely Green City (in the Middle of the Desert)
In this interview 24 year-old French photographer Etienne Malapert introduces us to The City of Possibilities, a documentary photography series that brings us to Masdar City...
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This Desert Town Is Full of People With a Mysterious Disease
Snowflake, Arizona has become an oasis for the afflicted. By Sarah Emerson.
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Body on the Moor
Why did this man travel 200 miles to die here? By Jon Manel.
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This tiny country is the most technologically advanced in the world
Have you ever been to Estonia? Could you find it on a map? The Baltic nation of only 1.3 million citizens stands out from its Eastern European neighbors in that it has an advanced economy and a high standard of living. And it’s a technology paradise. You may know it as the home of Skype. But there’s a lot more to the tiny country than that. In Estonia, voting, signing documents and filling out tax returns is done online, thanks to X-Road, an online tool that coordinates multiple online data repositories and document registries.
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The Sleepy Japanese Town Built Inside an Active Volcano
It’s been about 230 years since the last eruption killed half the population. But locals won’t let the volcano dictate their future. By Jennifer Nalewicki.
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The Story Behind The World's Emptiest International Airport
Hardly anybody goes to Sri Lanka’s Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI) because they have a flight. No, the air transport hub is currently a daily flight or two away from being completely defunct, and the people who do go there tend to be tourists making a side trip from the nearby wildlife parks to see the stunning, fully modern airport in the middle of the jungle for themselves. I arrived at HRI, which is located in Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota district, in the mid-morning to find a group of tourists huddle together in front of its passenger terminal. I asked them why they wanted to visit an empty airport.
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The Island Where Nothing Makes Sense
Matthew Teller roams Ascension Island, a volcanic outpost of empire where it's hot and cold at the same time - and nobody's sure who's in charge.
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The Mystery and Danger of Jacob's Well
The central Texas getaway of Jacob's Well lures daredevils and the heat-stricken.
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10 Real-World Entrances To Mythical Locations
World mythology is full of fantastic kingdoms and realms that exist alongside our own. Many of them are said to have entrances in the real world, meaning that it’s possible to at least stand on the doorstep of some pretty amazing places. Now, if only we knew the passwords to open those doors… By Debra Kelly.
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Havana,Cuba
A quiet day in Havana,before President Obama comes for a visit next week.
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Railroad Photography of John Sanderson
“The large format camera slows down my process. Because of the camera weight and numerous steps involved before exposing film, one learns to think in a state of ‘accumulated photographic intentions’. That is, tending to do a lot of the compositional, conceptual and camera placement decisions ‘in the mind’s eye’, as Ansel Adams would say, prior to photographing.”
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The Place Where the Poor Once Thrived
San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, used to be the best place in the country for kids to experience a Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches life. Is it still? By Alana Semuels.
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