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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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Peatónito takes on Flatbush & Atlantic.

performances

Fleeting Wonders: The Luchador Protecting Brooklyn's Pedestrians

Peatónito, a self-appointed "pedestrian superhero," has been climbing on cars all over New York City.

By Cara Giaimo
Morgan the elephant keeps on keepin' on.

news

Fleeting Wonders: First Elephant in Somalia in 20 Years

The bull, named Morgan, may have remembered the route there from his childhood.

By Cara Giaimo
A respectable Neanderthal looks out over the crowd at the Neandertal-Menschen in Germany.

prehistoric

Please Stop Using 'Neanderthal' As An Insult, Say Neanderthal Experts

How a whole prehistoric subspecies came to stand in for an extremely modern type of backwardness.

By Cara Giaimo
"Air India 173 was the longest flight staffed entirely by women in history"

airplanes

Fleeting Wonders: Longest-Ever Flight With All-Female Crew

Almost every Indian woman pilot will be in the sky today.

By Cara Giaimo
(Photo: Peter Hannam/Twitter)

spiders

Fleeting Wonders: An Australian Spider Boom

"Perfect conditions" for massive amounts of new arachnids in Sydney.

By Cara Giaimo
Fleeting Wonders: Crayon Makers Stressed Out By Coloring Craze

news

Fleeting Wonders: Crayon Makers Stressed Out By Coloring Craze

"I dream about crayons at night," one factory manager says.

By Cara Giaimo
A few of Messerschmidt's unsettling Head Pieces.

art

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Original Ghost-Buster

An 18th-century sculptor's proto-selfies were supposed to scare off spirits, but mostly ended up ruining his reputation.

By Cara Giaimo
Fleeting Wonders: Beetles Swarm Argentina Beach

beaches

Fleeting Wonders: Beetles Swarm Argentina Beach

The shiny bugs emerged to mate and then perish.

By Cara Giaimo
A black bear rolls around in his favorite food, spring grass.

bears

Fleeting Wonders: Bears Are Quitting Hibernation Early

Last year's lean summer means they're waking up hungry.

By Cara Giaimo
Two spider monkeys at ARCAS Peten. After months of learning how to be monkeys together, they're almost ready for re-release.

wildlife sanctuaries

In This Rainforest, Trafficked Animals Teach Each Other How To Be Wild

Animal specialists have to ignore crying babies, for their own good.

By Cara Giaimo
Gene Amondson, a recent Prohibition Party presidential candidate, wielding a chainsaw in homage to radical temperance pioneer Carrie Nation.

politics

The Prohibition Party Still Exists–And Is On the Ballot In At Least 3 States

Progressive cred, theatrical candidates, and a weird, bipartisan platform–the oldest third party in the country has it all.

By Cara Giaimo
Scott Kelly (left) and Mikhail Kornienko (right), with cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, just before setting off on the one-year mission.

space exploration

Fleeting Wonders: Crew Heading Home After 340 Days in Space

An end to the longest-ever stay at the International Space Station.

By Cara Giaimo
This city-commissioned work, by street artist C215, was scrubbed off a wall just a few days after it was painted.

art

Fleeting Wonders: City Workers Mistakenly Scrub City-Commissioned Art

The portrait was meant for an official street art retrospective in France.

By Cara Giaimo
A king quail chick and some unhatched eggs.

Fleeting Wonders: Supermarket Quail Egg Hatches Chick

Sometimes, idealism (and incubation) pays off.

By Cara Giaimo
The Flying Scotsman this past January, out on a private test run in Bury South Junction.

trains

Fleeting Wonders: Britain's Most Famous Train Returns

The Flying Scotsman was originally built in 1923, and has several speed and endurance records under its chassis.

By Cara Giaimo
Pushers on Squam Lake during this year's ice harvest.

ice

The Pushers, Hookers and Sawyers Still Harvesting America’s Ice

By Cara Giaimo
Bowyer and a volunteer, Vik Olliver, pose with the original parent RepRap and its first child.

printing

The Utopian Promise Of RepRap, the 3D Printer That Can—Almost—Print Itself

By Cara Giaimo
A giant rice turtle in Xiamen, China.

turtles

Fleeting Wonders: Giant, Lucky Turtles Made Of Rice

By Cara Giaimo
A Japanese cat celebrates both days at once.

animals

Fleeting Wonders: Cat Day and Ninja Day Collide in Japan

By Cara Giaimo
Guangzhou Circle, aka "The Big Coin," home to the Guangdong Plastic Exchange.

architecture

China’s Ban on Weird Architecture May Mean No More Big Pants or Giant Lotuses

By Cara Giaimo
"The Kiss," before errant texters made it migrate.

sculptures

Fleeting Wonders: A Sculpture That Punished Texting Pedestrians

By Cara Giaimo
An active tardigrade, on the hunt for new records to break.

antarctic

Fleeting Wonders: 'Water Bears' Awaken After 30 Years Frozen In Moss

By Cara Giaimo
A Woolworth's (left) among other shops in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the turn of the 20th century.

politics

In The 1920s, the KKK Hated Minorities, Foreigners, And JC Penney

By Cara Giaimo
A crop of stacked ice in Duluth, Michigan. (Photo: Sharon Mollerus/Flickr)

news

Fleeting Wonders: Stacked Shards of Ice On Lake Superior

By Cara Giaimo
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