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Cara Giaimo

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2015

former staff writer, forever fan // @cjgiaimo // caragiaimo (at) gmail (dot) com

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A long day for Steve Webb (not pictured).

news

For Hours, A Glitch in Britain Sent Everyone's Outgoing Emails To Some Guy

"Steve Webb," presumably, had an interesting day.

By Cara Giaimo
Lookin' good.

politics

Kosovo's Extremely Successful Hillary Clinton-Themed Pantsuit Boutique

"We started to promote Hillary's style in Kosovo, offering clothes to women that are identical to those worn by Hillary," says store owner Elda Morina-Ymeraga.

By Cara Giaimo
Lily Simonson in mid-sketch, next to a glacier.

art

What It's Like To Be The Only Painter In Antarctica

Making art at the bottom of the world, where paint freezes and the best subjects are millimeters long.

By Cara Giaimo
A Glastonbury Steel Cup, ready to rock.

festivals

Glastonbury Festival Orders Thousands of Cups to Help the British Steel Industry

It's also an attempt to cut down on trash.

By Cara Giaimo
The birdlegger cops to his cargo.

animals

Smuggler Caught With 11 Songbirds In His Pants

The aspiring birdlegger was trying to sneak his captives into Taiwan.

By Cara Giaimo
"Sunset Over the Golden Horn," by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky, from 1866.

victorian

History's Most Over-the-Top Sunset Descriptions

Long before Instagram, sunset enthusiasts strained the English language to its limit.

By Cara Giaimo
Miss Kitty, way up there.

animals

Cat Rescued After 4 Days Stuck On Insanely Tall Pole

All of British Columbia mobilized to get Miss Kitty back to earth.

By Cara Giaimo
Scrubbing in, virtually.

medicine

Do You Have The Guts To Watch VR Surgery?

Hanging out in an operating room hundreds of miles away.

By Cara Giaimo
A member of the tiger trio hangs out with a human performer.

animals

Rare Bengal Tiger Cubs Born to Exiled Circus in Nicaragua

The three cubs each had different colors.

By Cara Giaimo
Crab stampede! Run!

news

Watch Thousands of Tiny Crabs Stampede Across the Sea Floor

Even jaded researchers were "mesmerized" by the swarm.

By Cara Giaimo
Two graduate students burned by Foodcam.

food

An Afternoon With MIT's Most Important Invention

The technology alerts users when there are leftovers in the building.

By Cara Giaimo
Minneapolis, early in the morning.

infrastructure

Why All Of Minneapolis Woke Up At The Same Time This Morning

The city's emergency sirens all went off at once for no reason.

By Cara Giaimo
Sheep lined up for the main event.

animals

New Zealand's Biggest Sheep Race Was Led By a Black Goat

The most difficult part of the race, it turns out, can be getting the sheep to start running.

By Cara Giaimo
A doomed robot waiter does his best.

robots

Mass Robot Firings in China Because of Incompetence

"The robots weren't able to carry soup," one of their former colleagues said.

By Cara Giaimo
A recreation of a duel's aftermath, by photographer Katharine Sheward Stanbery and circa 1900.

duels

The Long Quest to Get Southerners to Stop Dueling

To convince gentlemen to holster their pistols, legislators had to turn dueling into social suicide.

By Cara Giaimo
An adult Urial in a Swedish zoo.

animals

Policemen Caught With Cruiser Full of Kidnapped Lambs

The lambs were later rescued and seen "frolicking."

By Cara Giaimo
One gem-studded space rock, coming up! (Photo: Twitter)

meteorites

The Rare Meteorites Going on Sale for Millions

Christie's London is selling 83 space rocks—some from Mars, some filled with gems, and one that killed a cow.

By Cara Giaimo
Taxidermied frogs spend a day on the lake at Froggyland

taxidermy

The Hungarian Taxidermist Who Saw Frogs As People

Ferenc Mere's passion lives on as Froggyland, a museum full of anthropomorphic amphibians.

By Cara Giaimo
The magical chair in question.

books

For Sale: The Chair J.K. Rowling Sat On While She Wrote Harry Potter

It's a pretty magical object.

By Cara Giaimo
A 1970s-era advertisement for Environments.

music

The Man Who Recorded, Tamed, and Then Sold Nature Sounds to America

A forgotten 1970s-era hippie polymath named Irv Teibel created the "soothing" vibe of the great outdoors.

By Cara Giaimo
The new SR 520 (on right), currently next to its slightly shorter predecessor.

bridges

Seattle Welcomes the World's Longest Floating Bridge

The new State Route 520 bridge beats its predecessor's record by 130 feet.

By Cara Giaimo
The crane works side by side with a rice farmer.

animals

Lost Siberian Crane Wins Taiwan's Heart While Improving Its Food Supply

"He is like my son," says one local rice farmer.

By Cara Giaimo
Campaign limericking inspired some spirited pamphlet vandalism.

politics

Turning a Presidential Campaign Into a Set of Bawdy Limericks

There once was a candidate from Nantucket...

By Cara Giaimo
A good-sized Salsola ryanii, in the bed of researcher Shana Welles's truck. (Photo: UC Riverside)

news

Enormous Tumbleweeds Spotted In San Francisco For The First Time

A relatively recent hybrid has invaded much of California.

By Cara Giaimo
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