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How obsessive artists colorize old photos
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 month ago
- 100 comments
You might have seen some of these colorized photos on the internet. Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, a young Charlie Chaplin. It’s incredible how normal these people look because they’re no longer in black and white. Like they’re someone you could
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We need to change how we bury the dead
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 month ago
- 100 comments
When I say “funeral” this is probably what you think of, right? The cemetery, the casket, the gorgeous floral arrangements. Vin Diesel stylishly going two buttons undone on the dress shirt. But what if I told you that other than
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The surprising pattern behind color names around the world
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 month ago
- 100 comments
If I showed you this paint chip and asked you to tell me what color it is, what would you say? How about this one? And this one? You probably said blue, purple, and brown — but if your native
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Missing Chapter: A new series about hidden histories
- by Chester McEachern
- 2 months ago
- 100 comments
Hey everyone, I’m Ranjani, here to announce a new series we’re starting called Missing Chapter! The goal of this series is to tell stories that often don’t make it into our history textbooks — that are overlooked or underreported. Our
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All student debt in the US, visualized
- by Chester McEachern
- 2 months ago
- 100 comments
And the US feared that they were falling behind. One of our greatest and most glaring deficiencies is the… America newsreels like this one stoked anxieties that the country was wasting its intellectual talents. So in 1958, President Eisenhower signed
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How Technicolor changed movies
- by Chester McEachern
- 2 months ago
- 100 comments
You know this scene from The Wizard of Oz. It happens just after Dorothy croons in sepia-toned Kansas, Toto wags his tail, and the house gets caught in a tornado. She travels from a faded film strip to a Technicolor
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Impeachment is broken. Impeach Trump, anyway.
- by Chester McEachern
- 2 months ago
- 100 comments
In 1788, three founding fathers made the case for the US constitution in a series of essays called “The Federalist Papers”. And if you want to understand why impeachment is broken today, it’s worth starting there. With what they thought
Read MoreHow highways wrecked American cities
- by Chester McEachern
- 3 months ago
- 0 comments
It’s hard to picture American cities without the highways running through their core, but highway removal projects, like this one in Boston, can give us a sense of how disruptive it was when the US built huge highways through the
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China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade
- by Chester McEachern
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
There’s a new highway in Pakistan. And a new rail terminal in Kazakhstan. A sea port in Sri Lanka recently opened. As well as this bridge in rural Laos. What’s interesting is that they’re all part of one country’s project
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Why the US and Iran are fighting over this tiny waterway
- by Chester McEachern
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
This is the Stena Impero, a British oil tanker traveling through the Persian Gulf. On July 19th 2019, it was on its way to Saudi Arabia when it received a radio message from Iranian naval forces. Later, the Stena Impero
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