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To Fix Midtown, You Must First Break Midtown
New York has fantastic public transit. It’s by far the best in the country. Sorry not sorry. But there is one way in which it falls short: There are meagre ways to get across town, especially at critical points like 42nd street, where you must either choose NYC’s shortest and nastiest subway line or the…
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The Spectacular Art Of Painting With Soap Bubbles
If you don’t know how they’re made, Jiří Georg Dokoupil’s paintings might look like microscope photos of phosphorescent deep-sea hydrozoa, or maybe computer-generated cartoon characters. Turns out, they’re actually the permanent evidence something way simpler: bubbles.
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16 Of The Most Mortifying Wrong Window Stories We’ve Ever Heard
Late last year, Giz US asked readers about their most embarrassing chat-related mistakes ever. From accidentally sexting your loved ones to chatting your dealer during a presentation, they delivered. Anything sound familiar to you guys? Have any of your own horror stories to share?
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Happy Birthday Ames! Awesome Photos From 75 Years Of Aerospace Research
On the 20th of December, 1939, the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was founded. The facility at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California, would later be known as NASA’s Ames Research Center after the founding chairman of NACA, Joseph S. Ames — but no one could foresee how iconic Ames would…