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What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXIX

The Ferocious Beauty Of Iceland’s Volcanoes Swedish photographer and geologist Frederick Holm has spent years hunting down volcanic eruptions across Iceland. Why someone would spend so much time in such a forbidding place doing such dangerous work becomes abundantly clear when you see the raw, ferocious beauty of these volcanic...

By John Kuroski • Sep 11, 2015

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What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXIX

The Ferocious Beauty Of Iceland’s Volcanoes Swedish photographer and geologist Frederick Holm has spent years hunting down volcanic eruptions across Iceland. Why someone would spend so much time in such a forbidding place doing such dangerous work becomes abundantly clear when you see the raw, ferocious beauty of these volcanic...

By John Kuroski • September 11, 2015

Photo Of The Day: An Emaciated Polar Bear Reveals Its Species’ Grim Future

One photograph paints a bleak future for polar bears throughout the Arctic.

By All That's Interesting • Sep 10, 2015

Photo Of The Day: An Emaciated Polar Bear Reveals Its Species’ Grim Future

One photograph paints a bleak future for polar bears throughout the Arctic.

By All That's Interesting • September 10, 2015

21st Century Nomads: Life In The Mongolian Steppe

Though the promise of the city beckons, tens of thousands of Mongolians have chosen to live as nomads.

By John Schellhase • Sep 9, 2015

21st Century Nomads: Life In The Mongolian Steppe

Though the promise of the city beckons, tens of thousands of Mongolians have chosen to live as nomads.

By John Schellhase • September 9, 2015

Historic Battlefields Then And Now

Battles are actually unusual in military history. It’s far more common for one side to be willing or able to fight and for the other side to collapse at once or wage a guerrilla war than it is for rival armies to roll the dice on a few confrontations. Battles...

By Richard Stockton • Sep 2, 2015

Historic Battlefields Then And Now

Battles are actually unusual in military history. It’s far more common for one side to be willing or able to fight and for the other side to collapse at once or wage a guerrilla war than it is for rival armies to roll the dice on a few confrontations. Battles...

By Richard Stockton • September 2, 2015

Back To School: 50+ Vintage School Photos Of Your Favorite Celebrities

School is back in session, so we've rounded up these hilarious celebrity yearbook photos well before their red carpet days.

By Savannah Cox • Sep 1, 2015

Back To School: 50+ Vintage School Photos Of Your Favorite Celebrities

School is back in session, so we've rounded up these hilarious celebrity yearbook photos well before their red carpet days.

By Savannah Cox • September 1, 2015

This Is Syria After Nearly 5 Years Of Civil War

Claiming over 300,000 lives and turning half of the population into refugees, these photos of the Syrian Civil War reveal the cost of 5 years of conflict.

By Alexander Baldwin • Aug 31, 2015

This Is Syria After Nearly 5 Years Of Civil War

Claiming over 300,000 lives and turning half of the population into refugees, these photos of the Syrian Civil War reveal the cost of 5 years of conflict.

By Alexander Baldwin • August 31, 2015

After Genocide, Only Human Wreckage Remains

From The Associated Press on May 13, 1994: “Nobody lives here any more. Not the expectant mothers huddled outside the maternity clinic, not the families squeezed into the church, not the man who lies rotting in a schoolroom beneath a chalkboard map of Africa. Everybody here is dead. Karubamba is...

By All That's Interesting • Aug 19, 2015

After Genocide, Only Human Wreckage Remains

From The Associated Press on May 13, 1994: “Nobody lives here any more. Not the expectant mothers huddled outside the maternity clinic, not the families squeezed into the church, not the man who lies rotting in a schoolroom beneath a chalkboard map of Africa. Everybody here is dead. Karubamba is...

By All That's Interesting • August 19, 2015

Relive The Decadence Of Studio 54 With These Vintage Photos

Prolonged war and a stagnant economy gave way to a massive national hangover in the 1970s. But at Studio 54, the party was just getting started. Described by some as Sodom and Gomorrah with a disco beat, New York City’s delightfully depraved nightclub opened its doors in 1977. It took...

By Erin Kelly • Aug 6, 2015

Relive The Decadence Of Studio 54 With These Vintage Photos

Prolonged war and a stagnant economy gave way to a massive national hangover in the 1970s. But at Studio 54, the party was just getting started. Described by some as Sodom and Gomorrah with a disco beat, New York City’s delightfully depraved nightclub opened its doors in 1977. It took...

By Erin Kelly • August 6, 2015

33 Vintage Photos That Provide A Peek Into Life In East Germany

During the Cold War and especially after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, many parts of the world had few ways of fully ascertaining what life was like in East Germany. Indeed, the Eastern Bloc state was isolated from the West in both the physical and ideological sense...

By Erin Kelly • Aug 2, 2015

33 Vintage Photos That Provide A Peek Into Life In East Germany

During the Cold War and especially after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, many parts of the world had few ways of fully ascertaining what life was like in East Germany. Indeed, the Eastern Bloc state was isolated from the West in both the physical and ideological sense...

By Erin Kelly • August 2, 2015

The Tour De France: Then And Now

During the Tour de France, around 200 cyclists from 22 teams pedal through the French countryside in an attempt to win one of the world’s most difficult sporting competitions. Covering an impossible 2,087 miles that are broken down into 21 different stages, the Tour de France is a beast of...

By All That's Interesting • Jul 25, 2015

The Tour De France: Then And Now

During the Tour de France, around 200 cyclists from 22 teams pedal through the French countryside in an attempt to win one of the world’s most difficult sporting competitions. Covering an impossible 2,087 miles that are broken down into 21 different stages, the Tour de France is a beast of...

By All That's Interesting • July 25, 2015