History
April 3, 2017

Buried Box of Photos Reveal Jewish Man’s Perspective from the Lodz Ghetto in WWII

Henryk Ross was one of over 3 million Jews living in Poland at the start of World War II. As a photographer for the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council (or Judenrat), he was responsible for documenting life in Lodz's Jewish Ghetto during the city's Nazi occupation. Ross had been working as a photojournalist when he and 160,000 Jews were corralled into a small, 1.

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Art
April 2, 2017

Artist Meticulously Crafts Steampunk-Inspired Flying Machines From Cardboard

While most people browse the internet or watch TV on their down time, artist Jeroen van Kesteren spends his hours making beautiful and elaborate fantasy aircrafts and airships. For about a year now, van Kesteren has been working on a collection of intricate 19th century flying machines inspired by the steampunk aesthetic. The various contraptions in his series Orphanage for Lost Adventures reflect the nostalgic relics of the neo-Victorian movement and feature retro-futuristic technologies found in the literary works of H.

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Science
March 31, 2017

“World’s Blackest Black” Absorbs So Much Light It Makes 3D Objects Look Flat

If you thought that all black was the same, think again. Vantablack, developed by a UK company in 2014 and touted as the “world's blackest black,” is being one-upped by a new version of itself. Surrey NanoSystems developed the substance from densely packed carbon nanotubes, creating a non-reflective substance that absorbs 99.6% of the light that hits it. But things just got blacker. The company has continued to push their technology and just recently announced Vantablack 2.

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