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One pantry's rice and beans is another pantry's fufu and cattail roots.

pandemic

Around the World in 6 Quarantine Pantries

How chefs in Bolivia, Malaysia, Italy, Rwanda, Canada, and Thailand are preparing for lockdown.

Luke Fater
Atlas Obscura
April 9, 2020
The Giza pyramid complex, Egypt, March 25, 2020.

sanitation

The Surreal Sight of Disinfecting Historic Sites

Unsung workers around the world on the front lines of the pandemic fight.

Winnie Lee
Atlas Obscura
April 9, 2020
The eerie smoke masks in Erenberg's collection bear a striking resemblance to two Star Wars fan favorites.

antiques

A Show & Tell With Upstate New York’s 'Radio Guy'

His collection of scary-looking headgear from the past is sure to get into your head.

Isaac Schultz
Atlas Obscura
April 8, 2020
Peru's young circus performers are descendants of acrobats and lion tamers.

circus

Inside the 'Circus Capital of the World'

The big top came to Peru, Indiana, in the late 19th century. It never left.

Susan Salaz
Atlas Obscura
April 8, 2020
From Vikings to grandmothers, people around the world keep cooking.

nostalgia

7 YouTube Channels for the Stay-at-Home Food Adventurer

Get inspired by these imaginative cooks from around the world.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
April 8, 2020
In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

smells

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

The history of unpleasant odor, or miasma, has unexpected relevance in the time of COVID-19.

Daniela Blei
Atlas Obscura
April 8, 2020
At Harvard, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury.

archives

Even More Ways to Help Librarians and Archivists From Home

As long as we're all cooped-up, here are six digital projects that could use your curiosity.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
April 7, 2020
It's a shame we don't yet have the technology to digitize the Library's famous Nottebohm Room.

internet

The Ambitious Plan to Digitize 100,000 Historic Texts in Belgium

Two major Antwerp institutions are putting some of their voluminous holdings in the cloud.

Matthew Taub
Atlas Obscura
April 7, 2020
An image from the 1931 cookbook Recipes The Modern Pabst-ett Way.

relics of the 1920s

When the Government Banned PBR, Pabst Made Cheese Instead

Selling dairy products helped the brewery survive Prohibition.

Mark Hay
Atlas Obscura
April 7, 2020
Theme of the South, by Laura G. Douglas, Camilla, Georgia.

postal

Appreciating America's Overlooked, Forgotten, and Discarded Post Office Murals

Painted during the Great Depression, they're lingering expressions of civic pride.

Winnie Lee
Atlas Obscura
April 7, 2020
Ruth Asawa and some of her works in 1954.

sculptures

A Trailblazing Japanese-American Sculptor Is Getting Her Own Postage Stamps

Ruth Asawa also championed arts education—and had a great recipe for salt dough for sculpting at home.

Isaac Schultz
Atlas Obscura
April 6, 2020
Meet Dave Remsen, director of Marine Research Services at the Marine Biological Lab, which was founded in 1888.

laboratories

The Woods Hole Lab Where Mysteries of the Deep Are Solved

Nervous sharks, flight-risk octopuses, and fish that walk are just a few of Dave Remsen's cases.

Lucy Sherriff
Atlas Obscura
April 6, 2020
The Figueira Brava cave in Portugal, where Neanderthals had their pick of fruits de mer.

neanderthals

Holed Up in a Portuguese Cave, Neanderthals Supped on Seafood

For skeptics, no amount of crab legs and speared shark are enough to upend the caveman stereotype.

Isaac Schultz
Atlas Obscura
April 6, 2020
Kevin Dzurny, chief cartographer at Replogle Globes, has to keep things up to date—and keep certain countries happy.

globes

How a Globemaker Navigates a Digital World

“It’s kind of a joke, but in some sense, I almost feel like I could start a war.”

Lauren Vespoli
Atlas Obscura
April 6, 2020
A bartender serves pear ratafia, inspired by an early-modern European recipe, at Tattersall's 2019 event.

alchemy

The 1700s Plague Cure That Inspired an Uncannily Contemporary Cocktail

An art historian, a culinary researcher, and a Twin Cities distillery teamed up to recreate the herbaceous drink.

Reina Gattuso
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2020
Oh, nose! Cave bears' diet-limiting sinuses may have been what spelled doom for the Ice Age beasts.

sleep

Why Europe's Cave Bears Were—and Weren't—Made for Hunkering Down

Their big sinuses were both an evolutionary boon and bust.

Isaac Schultz
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2020
The Museum of Portable Sound before its Grand Opening Gala in November 2015. The tiny ribbon in front of the phone was cut with the tiny pair of scissors.

secret lives of museums

A Loopy Library of Sounds Features Sprinklers, Sirens, and Freud's Toilet

The Museum of Portable Sound normally resides on an iPhone 4S. Now, you can hear it via video chat.

plumcot
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2020
A scuba diver with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration studies bleached corals.

laboratories

The Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 on Field Science

As scientists wait, worry, and hunker down, they’re also looking ahead to how their projects will need to adapt.

Claudia Geib
Atlas Obscura
April 3, 2020
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