April 6, 2016 - 5:33 pm in Quick HistoryLustron Homes: The post-war experiment that aimed to change housing forever
In my last year of grade school, my family lived in a neighborhood with an architectural oddity – an enamel-coated steel tile house. One of the last remaining bastions of an experiment in pre-fabricated…
December 22, 2015 - 6:34 pm in Quick HistoryThe Voyager Golden Record: A chat with the Golden Record’s artist, Jon Lomberg
If you had to send a message that could explain all of humanity, but not just humanity – the other life on Earth, too – and you had a limited amount of space to do it in, what would you include?…
October 26, 2015 - 4:43 pm in Attractions, Places to visit15 Bizarre Places to Visit in Japan
Japan is an island country with a reputation for the bizarre, and not without reason. Even the history here can be…different. Take a look at some of the craziest spots we found, from Naoshima to…
September 23, 2015 - 10:04 pm in Attractions, Places to visitU.S.S. Slater
U.S.S. Slater? More like U.S.S. See-Ya-Later. This innovative destroyer escort was the key in destroying German U-Boats during World War II, giving the Americans the upper hand in the Atlantic.…
Manila, Philippines: Razed and rebuilt
If there’s one thing no place should ever strive to be, it’s a pearl. As precious as that nickname is, Haiti (the Pearl of the Antilles) and the city of Manila in the Philippines (the Pearl of…
