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31 Great Travel Selfies That Prove The Self-Portrait Isn’t Always Obnoxious

A common criticism of the selfie is that the photo doesn’t really transport the viewer anywhere–save for the filtered, idealized “reality” that the portrait-taker wants viewers to see. And generally speaking, that’s a really boring destination. The same cannot always be said, however, about travel selfies. Love them or absolutely...

By Savannah Cox • Jul 19, 2015

31 Great Travel Selfies That Prove The Self-Portrait Isn’t Always Obnoxious

A common criticism of the selfie is that the photo doesn’t really transport the viewer anywhere–save for the filtered, idealized “reality” that the portrait-taker wants viewers to see. And generally speaking, that’s a really boring destination. The same cannot always be said, however, about travel selfies. Love them or absolutely...

By Savannah Cox • July 19, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXI

Before Pluto: The Other Awe-Inspiring New Horizons Photos While you’ve definitely seen the new Pluto photos and you probably know that those photos are the fruit of the New Horizons’ nearly ten-year journey, you may not realize all that happened along the way. It zipped past our moon (within nine...

By John Kuroski • Jul 17, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXI

Before Pluto: The Other Awe-Inspiring New Horizons Photos While you’ve definitely seen the new Pluto photos and you probably know that those photos are the fruit of the New Horizons’ nearly ten-year journey, you may not realize all that happened along the way. It zipped past our moon (within nine...

By John Kuroski • July 17, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXX

Shooting Stars: The Year’s Best Astronomy Photography Astrophotographer is one of the world’s cooler job titles and also exactly the type of person honored by the Royal Observatory of England’s Astronomy Photography of the Year competition. Now in its seventh year, the competition has gathered more entries than ever, from...

By John Kuroski • Jul 10, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXX

Shooting Stars: The Year’s Best Astronomy Photography Astrophotographer is one of the world’s cooler job titles and also exactly the type of person honored by the Royal Observatory of England’s Astronomy Photography of the Year competition. Now in its seventh year, the competition has gathered more entries than ever, from...

By John Kuroski • July 10, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXIX

Wildfires Rage In The West While wildfire season is far from over, the West Coast and Alaska have already suffered devastating blows. With a record 700 fires to date this year, Alaska has taken the largest hit, losing over 1.8 million acres. Although higher temperatures and lower humidity are to...

By John Kuroski • Jul 3, 2015

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What We Love This Week, Volume CXXIX

Wildfires Rage In The West While wildfire season is far from over, the West Coast and Alaska have already suffered devastating blows. With a record 700 fires to date this year, Alaska has taken the largest hit, losing over 1.8 million acres. Although higher temperatures and lower humidity are to...

By John Kuroski • July 3, 2015

63 Wild West Mugshots That Prove They Don’t Make Criminals Like They Used To

From Butch Cassidy to an 11-year-old car thief to a Jesse James crony still bloody from a posse's beating, these mugshots evoke the true outlaw spirit of the Wild West.

By Erin Kelly • Jun 28, 2015

63 Wild West Mugshots That Prove They Don’t Make Criminals Like They Used To

From Butch Cassidy to an 11-year-old car thief to a Jesse James crony still bloody from a posse's beating, these mugshots evoke the true outlaw spirit of the Wild West.

By Erin Kelly • June 28, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXVIII

The First Color Photographs Of The United States On some subconscious level, most of us imagine that the world before, say, 1920 existed in black and white. And why not? That’s what the photographic record of the era would have us believe. But as far back as 1889–14 years before...

By John Kuroski • Jun 26, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXVIII

The First Color Photographs Of The United States On some subconscious level, most of us imagine that the world before, say, 1920 existed in black and white. And why not? That’s what the photographic record of the era would have us believe. But as far back as 1889–14 years before...

By John Kuroski • June 26, 2015

50 Photos Of Vladimir Putin’s Glamorous Life

Many deem Putin mania to be the biggest cult of personality Russia has seen since the days of Stalin. Take a look at these photos and judge for yourself.

By Savannah Cox • Jun 17, 2015

50 Photos Of Vladimir Putin’s Glamorous Life

Many deem Putin mania to be the biggest cult of personality Russia has seen since the days of Stalin. Take a look at these photos and judge for yourself.

By Savannah Cox • June 17, 2015

Go Below Sea Level With These Gorgeous Underwater Pictures

Writers and artists often use images of large bodies of water to symbolize the unknown. One look at nature photographer Jorge Cervera Hauser’s photography, though, and it seems that the ocean and its inhabitants are something Hauser knows incredibly well: Hauser’s stunning underwater pictures builds on a body of impressive...

By Erin Kelly • Jun 9, 2015

Go Below Sea Level With These Gorgeous Underwater Pictures

Writers and artists often use images of large bodies of water to symbolize the unknown. One look at nature photographer Jorge Cervera Hauser’s photography, though, and it seems that the ocean and its inhabitants are something Hauser knows incredibly well: Hauser’s stunning underwater pictures builds on a body of impressive...

By Erin Kelly • June 9, 2015

Housewives Before WW2: Women On The Cusp Of Transformation

We’ve written before on the ways war has inspired countless technical innovations that we take for granted every day, but haven’t focused too much on the ways it has transformed the home and its accompanying gender roles. In this arena, one surprising “accomplishment” of World War II was the way...

By Erin Kelly • Jun 3, 2015

Housewives Before WW2: Women On The Cusp Of Transformation

We’ve written before on the ways war has inspired countless technical innovations that we take for granted every day, but haven’t focused too much on the ways it has transformed the home and its accompanying gender roles. In this arena, one surprising “accomplishment” of World War II was the way...

By Erin Kelly • June 3, 2015

When Crack Was King: 1980s New York In Photos

Before Carrie Bradshaw and Hannah Horvath, New York was host to the 1980s. And trust us, it wasn't all that pretty.

By Savannah Cox • Jun 1, 2015

When Crack Was King: 1980s New York In Photos

Before Carrie Bradshaw and Hannah Horvath, New York was host to the 1980s. And trust us, it wasn't all that pretty.

By Savannah Cox • June 1, 2015