History
Shackleton’s Whisky on Ice
BBC News reports that five crates of 100+yr-old Scotch whisky and brandy has been discovered underneath Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic hut, which was built for his failed expedition to the South Pole. Experts are now trying to safely retrieve the crates’ contents. Mackinlay’s whisky company think they may be able to reproduced the original Shakleton blend [...]
The History of News
More Intelligent Life explores the changing role of news in a world where twitter spreads information like wildfire and looks back to the early days of journalism and finds that newspapers had to rely on opinion pieces as the presses were too slow to keep up with word of mouth. What goes around comes around…. [...]
Looking into the Past
Looking into the Past is a fascinating Flickr group that features historical photographs that have been blended with the modern world in some way.
Take a look at:
Dam Square shooting 1945 Amsterdam, then & now;
Then in now Brandenburg gate;
Looking Into the Past: Loudoun Street, Leesburg, VA;
Haiti Aerial Photos of Earthquake Devestation
The New York Times has issued aerial photos of Port-au-Prince before and after the earthquake struck Haiti, including the areas around the National Palace, the National Cathedral and the Military Barracks. Slide the timeline across the photo to see the the devastation wreaked by the earthquake.
See the photos here
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Do Recessions Produce Nicer People?
Newsweek concludes an article about the long term effects of the recession on the American psyche and ponders whether the recession might have an unexpected side effect in that we all might become more empathetic and community-minded, and so turn into nicer people.
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City Museum, St. Louis
City Museum in St. Louis stipulates that visitors must wear sensible shoes at all times and recommends long trousers – that’s because it encourages visitors to explore and climb over its exhibits, which are built from the local fabric of the city: salvaged bridges, chimneys and tiles, constructed by artisans into a series of attractions [...]
What Went Wrong
What Went Wrong is an eight-week online interactive series that looks at the causes of the global financial crisis, from Big Think, a “global forum connecting people and ideas,” which has an archive of video interviews with more than 600 experts including and astronaut and a former mayor of NYC. What Went Wrong [...]
How We Imagined London Would Be in 2010 Back Then
Spillway has an interesting article that goes back to the dawn of the 1980s to see how we imagined 2010 would look. Will Wiles found an old copy of the Observer Magazine, which attempted to predict the future (and our present). He uploaded photos of the magazine to Flickr. Among other things, it was predicted [...]
Invisible Soldiers
Over at Sharon Denise Writes are a series of articles about the experience of being black and in the US Forces, such as Invisible Warriors, which tells the story of the 1.2million black servicemen who served America during WWII. There are a number of other articles that explore the issue from WWII until today.Sharon is [...]
Amateur Night at The Apollo
Every Wednesday evening since 1934 (except for a current hiatus due to the staging of Dreamgirls) Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater, Harlem, has been the place for singers to go to launch their careers: Billie Holiday, Ben E. King, Jackie Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, The Isley Brothers and Blu Cantrell among [...]
