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This Is What Delhi, The World’s Most Polluted City Looks Like

Beijing can rest easier for the moment as it is no longer the most polluted city in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the dubious honor of the world’s most polluted city goes to Delhi, India. It’s estimated that the city’s air pollution kills 10,500 people in...

By Susan Sims • May 29, 2015

This Is What Delhi, The World’s Most Polluted City Looks Like

Beijing can rest easier for the moment as it is no longer the most polluted city in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the dubious honor of the world’s most polluted city goes to Delhi, India. It’s estimated that the city’s air pollution kills 10,500 people in...

By Susan Sims • May 29, 2015

Haunting Photos Of People Just Before They Died

In the back of our minds, we know we're going to die. But what does it look like just before it happens? These death photos reveal how mundane the end can look.

By Richard Stockton • May 27, 2015

Haunting Photos Of People Just Before They Died

In the back of our minds, we know we're going to die. But what does it look like just before it happens? These death photos reveal how mundane the end can look.

By Richard Stockton • May 27, 2015

1928 England Lives On In Timeless Autochrome Photos

At the behest of National Geographic, Clifton R. Adams spent the late 1920s and early 1930s in England, where he photographed the country’s farms, towns, and the people who composed them. Using an emerging process known as Autochrome, Adams’ color images were stunning for the time, and remain beautiful examples...

By Erin Kelly • May 25, 2015

1928 England Lives On In Timeless Autochrome Photos

At the behest of National Geographic, Clifton R. Adams spent the late 1920s and early 1930s in England, where he photographed the country’s farms, towns, and the people who composed them. Using an emerging process known as Autochrome, Adams’ color images were stunning for the time, and remain beautiful examples...

By Erin Kelly • May 25, 2015

God’s Country: Life Under ISIS

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a walking reductio ad absurdum of Immanuel Kant’s Enlightenment treatise Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In that book, Kant argues that mankind is inherently drawn to evil deeds, and that this “radical evil,” as he calls it, inevitably corrupts every...

By Richard Stockton • May 24, 2015

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God’s Country: Life Under ISIS

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a walking reductio ad absurdum of Immanuel Kant’s Enlightenment treatise Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In that book, Kant argues that mankind is inherently drawn to evil deeds, and that this “radical evil,” as he calls it, inevitably corrupts every...

By Richard Stockton • May 24, 2015

The Cowal Highland Gathering Helps Keep Scotland Weird

Every year at the end of August, the village of Dunoon quadruples in size. Why? To celebrate the Cowal Highland Gathering.

By All That's Interesting • May 24, 2015

The Cowal Highland Gathering Helps Keep Scotland Weird

Every year at the end of August, the village of Dunoon quadruples in size. Why? To celebrate the Cowal Highland Gathering.

By All That's Interesting • May 24, 2015

Death And High Society: Green-Wood Cemetery In Spring

Class and social stature have been so historically important in New York “society” that the elite have even competed for a place to rot. In the words of architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings...

By All That's Interesting • May 23, 2015

Death And High Society: Green-Wood Cemetery In Spring

Class and social stature have been so historically important in New York “society” that the elite have even competed for a place to rot. In the words of architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings...

By All That's Interesting • May 23, 2015

Our Earth In Crisis: Photos Of A Changing World

Forty five years ago, the world observed its very first Earth Day. And yet, it would take decades of discord, troubling discoveries and subsequent environmental activism before such an event would gain enough popularity to even be thinkable. In the preceding decades, modern warfare and heavy industrialization-led growth had proliferated...

By Erin Kelly • May 22, 2015

Our Earth In Crisis: Photos Of A Changing World

Forty five years ago, the world observed its very first Earth Day. And yet, it would take decades of discord, troubling discoveries and subsequent environmental activism before such an event would gain enough popularity to even be thinkable. In the preceding decades, modern warfare and heavy industrialization-led growth had proliferated...

By Erin Kelly • May 22, 2015

Before Brunch, There Were Riots: 1970s Harlem In Photos

Harlem in the 1970s was marked with violence and loss, but it was also a time where its residents cultivated an incredibly resilient character.

By Erin Kelly • May 17, 2015

Before Brunch, There Were Riots: 1970s Harlem In Photos

Harlem in the 1970s was marked with violence and loss, but it was also a time where its residents cultivated an incredibly resilient character.

By Erin Kelly • May 17, 2015

29 Swoon-Worthy Pictures Of Japanese Cherry Blossoms

These photos prove that Japanese cherry blossoms are one of the simplest and most beautiful blooms in the world.

By Kiri Picone • May 17, 2015

29 Swoon-Worthy Pictures Of Japanese Cherry Blossoms

These photos prove that Japanese cherry blossoms are one of the simplest and most beautiful blooms in the world.

By Kiri Picone • May 17, 2015

Via Margutta, The Most Romantic Street In The World

In 1953, the film "Roman Holiday" catapulted Rome and one of its most beautiful streets to new levels of fame. See why.

By All That's Interesting • May 17, 2015

Via Margutta, The Most Romantic Street In The World

In 1953, the film "Roman Holiday" catapulted Rome and one of its most beautiful streets to new levels of fame. See why.

By All That's Interesting • May 17, 2015