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The French photographer Sacha Goldberger helped his 91-year-old grandmother—a Hungarian holocaust survivor—escape a bout of loneliness and depression by taking pictures of her as a superhero. It's a charming story and the resulting photographs are a lot of fun.
Via Boing Boing
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Why Universities Are Building Superefficient Power Plants
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Amid Anti-Islam Fearmongering, Muslims Should Actually Fear Other Americans
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What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola?
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Pope on Wheels: The Symbolism of Papal Transport
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Buy You a Drink: Cocktails for Kenny Powers, Fictional Foul-Mouthed Fireballer
A common refrain among preservationists is that a repurposed building should reflect that structure’s original use. A newly conceived space in...
Portraits from young artist Daniel Kornrumpf updates a stuffy old hobby.
Move over, Batman! Gotham City has a new hero in town, and she's taking over the classroom.
So you want to make the world a better place? Maybe start with your block, or your neighborhood. Maybe start with an awesome costume. You don’t...
When it comes to sexism, a politician has no choice but to convince the public that if his loyal wife believes him, we should, too.
A steamy, consensual affair and a creepy, unwanted sexual advance are completely different things.
Artist Levi van Veluw (LAY-vee vahn FAY-loo, roughly) creates works of art on his head. He paints it. He covers it in pebbles. He sets up a model...
Not long ago, if you had stood at the edge of Detroit and looked south– across the river to the neighboring city of Windsor, Ontario– you ...
A new study suggests confidence building psychological exercises can help close the achievement gap
They broke Jones's nose, perhaps upon discovering that he did not, in fact, have super powers. Video inside.
The designer John Szot has published an incredible gallery of photographs from the Packard Auto Plant, the Thornapple Valley Slaughterhouse, and...
The photo above, released last week, is of a heretofore "unfound" tribe of Amazon Indians living on the Brazil-Peru border (as if they were ever...
Andy Adams and Larissa LeClair are the people behind 100 Portraits, a selection of 100 portraits by 100 photographers at all stages of their careers.
"Captured" is the title of the Denver Post's collection of 70 color photographs of everyday Americans from 1939 to 1943. It's a look at a...
Trevor Paglen is trained as a geographer, so it fits that his work photographing covert government installations began when he noticed something...
Officially my favorite blog post of Earth Day: NRDC's Smart Growth expert Kaid Benfield puts everything into good perspective. Here's a tease...
The photographers Liz and Max Hamilton dropped by our Community Board to mention a new project. Max is taking portraits of soccer fans from each...
Nina Berman captures portraits of the soldiers who have made life-altering sacrifices during their service.
