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The robot trash can in action, eliciting both trash and responses.

garbage week

What Does Your Reaction to a Robotic Trash Can Say About You?

Predict the future of humanity by piloting around a robotic garbage barrel.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
March 18, 2016
Found: A Crucifix That Could Change Christian History

jewels

Found: A Crucifix That Could Change Christian History

It's dated to the early 900s.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
March 18, 2016
These Magic Bags Turn Pee to Goo And Make Poop Portable

garbage week

These Magic Bags Turn Pee to Goo And Make Poop Portable

Welcome to the frontier of human waste management.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
March 18, 2016
Meet Auntie Litter, the Rapping, Recycling Hero From My Childhood

the 90s

Meet Auntie Litter, the Rapping, Recycling Hero From My Childhood

Her "reuse, reduce, recycle" chant stuck in my head for years.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
March 18, 2016
The Mind Control of the Lancet Liver Fluke

invisible worlds

The Mind Control of the Lancet Liver Fluke

Its path through the animal world is quite twisted.

Dylan Thuras
Atlas Obscura
March 18, 2016
Private Eyes Tell Us About Digging Through People's Trash

garbage week

Private Eyes Tell Us About Digging Through People's Trash

It turns out this technique isn't just good in movies—it works in real life, too.

Dan Nosowitz
Atlas Obscura
March 18, 2016
See What Artists-in-Residence at a Trash Dump Create

garbage week

See What Artists-in-Residence at a Trash Dump Create

Meet the artists who transform San Francisco's trash into art.

Anika Burgess
Atlas Obscura
March 18, 2016
Ukraine Removes Massive Lenin Statue For Online Audience of Thousands

lenin

Ukraine Removes Massive Lenin Statue For Online Audience of Thousands

The 66-foot statue is one of almost 1,000 that the country has removed.

Erik Shilling
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
The Robinson Crusoe of Dogs Survived 5 Weeks Alone on a Deserted Island

naval history

The Robinson Crusoe of Dogs Survived 5 Weeks Alone on a Deserted Island

A German Shepherd that fell off a boat in early February was just found alive.

Erik Shilling
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
Professor Gets $700,000 After Solving 358-Year-Old Math Problem

mathematics

Professor Gets $700,000 After Solving 358-Year-Old Math Problem

A successful proof for Fermat's Last Theorem took a very long time.

Erik Shilling
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
The Evolution of the Garbage Truck

garbage week

The Evolution of the Garbage Truck

Garbage trucks have evolved from glorified dump trucks to sophisticated engines of trash transport.

Eric Grundhauser
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
A secret collection of Furbies.

garbage week

Fascinating Photos from the Secret Trash Collection in a New York Sanitation Garage

Garbage can be beautiful, if sorted correctly.

Dylan Thuras
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
Bros Discover The Crazy Wondrousness of Bioluminescence

bioluminescence

Bros Discover The Crazy Wondrousness of Bioluminescence

Did you just see that, bruh?

Tao Tao Holmes
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
How the St. Patrick's Day Parade Paved the Way for Other Immigrant Groups

immigration

How the St. Patrick's Day Parade Paved the Way for Other Immigrant Groups

The parade, invented in America, inspired others to come.

Tao Tao Holmes
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
Highway Superintendent Tony Shattuck lays out the soggy remains of what used to be a time capsule.

garbage week

Excited Town Unearths Time Capsule Full Of Garbage

"This is not a good commercial for Ziploc," one onlooker said.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
Found: Two Secret Rooms in King Tut's Tomb

secret passages

Found: Two Secret Rooms in King Tut's Tomb

After new scans, researchers are 90 percent sure they're there.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
The Brainless Life of the Sea Squirt

invisible worlds

The Brainless Life of the Sea Squirt

A sea zombie, in video form.

Dylan Thuras
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
Places You Can No Longer Go: Barren Island

garbage week

Places You Can No Longer Go: Barren Island

The small slip of land near Brooklyn used to be a moldering cesspool—before Robert Moses stepped in.

Lucas Adams
Atlas Obscura
March 17, 2016
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