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Kids from around the world photographed with their favorite things

Gabriele Galimberti takes photos of kids with their most prized possessions. But how they play can reveal a lot. “The Continue reading →

George Orwell on Politics and the English Language

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts …

The 1960s: Highway Hi-Fi

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The Home Office of the 21st Century

In a report from 1967, Walter Cronkite takes us on a brief tour of what they imagined the home office would be like in the 2000s. In the 21st century, it may be that no home will be complete without a computerized communications console. Cronkite …

NASA Unveils Last Moon Video by Doomed Spacecraft

via mashable.com A NASA probe recorded a spectacular flyover video of the moon’s far side shortly before intentionally slamming into a lunar mountain last month. NASA’s Ebb spacecraft shot the stunning final moon video on Dec. 14, just three days …

Joseph Stalin, 1949, and Joseph Stalin, 1956

Not content to leave his stamp on the architecture of the Soviet Union, Stalin also like it have his own image displayed in suitably monumental form, particularly in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe after their ‘liberation’ by the Red Ar…

Totalitarian Architecture of the Soviet Union

From Constructivism to Gigantism, From Extreme Ornamentation to Brutalism (and very little soul)Unapologetic in their colossal scale and glorification of the totalitarian state, these gigantic structures dominate urban landscapes of the former Eas…

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