Fashion brand R13 has introduced shorts that kind of look like two pairs of clothes have gotten stuck together in the dryer. Price: $565.
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In 1838, a man stopped on the Boulevard…
In 1838, a man stopped on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris to get his boots cleaned. He and the cleaner stood still for at least seven minutes on the street, and accidentally became the first people in history to be photographed.
New Jersey’s Monet
Where most folks may see a commonplace gas station or crumbling building, New Jersey painter Doug Madill sees a work of art. We’re in love with his Impressionist vision of one of America’s most underrated places.
This is what bags of chips look…
This is what bags of chips look like in a supermarket with an elevation of more than 7000 feet.
Tabular iceberg
NASA’s Cryospheric Sciences Program released this aerial photo of a rectangular iceberg in Antarctica. Located on the Larsen C ice shelf, the curious iceberg is likely one mile or so across. From the BBC News: “Such objects are not unknown, however, and even have a name – tabular icebergs.”
Girl Scouts vs Personality Posters
There is a German settlement in…
There is a German settlement in the jungles of Peru called Pozuzo that was established in 1859 by around 150 German/Austrian settlers. They were completely cut off from both their Homeland and the rest of Peru for 120 years. They were able to do this by being completely self sufficient. This is how Pozuzo looks like today.
A Vision of Isolating Technology from 1906…
Punch, the British weekly magazine of humor and satire, seemed to have a talent for uncanny predictions of distant technologies to come. See for example this vision of the Skype-like “Telephonoscope” from 1879.
There’s an 1,800 year-old Roman…
There’s an 1,800 year-old Roman version of present day Swiss Army Knife, complete with folding spoon, fork, spatula, pick, spike and knife. It was made mostly from silver, so it has held up pretty well. The spike might have helped in extracting the meat from snails, and the spatula in poking sauce out of narrow-necked bottles: the pick could have served as a tooth-pick.
Le Bateau by Henri Matisse
Le Bateau (“The Boat”) by Henri Matisse, caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hung the work upside-down for 47 days in 1961 until Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake and notified a guard.