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Cara Giaimo

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Christa McAuliffe gets a weightlessness preview aboard the zero gravity aircraft. McAuliffe used some of her zero-G time to practice her lesson plans.

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Fleeting Wonders: Challenger Astronaut Christa McAuliffe's Lost Lessons

By Cara Giaimo

Classic cheetah shape–a small triangle on top of a large one.

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Why Cheetah Researchers Spend A Lot Of Time Sneaking Up On Bushes

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Tuesday morning's Senate crew.

politics

Fleeting Wonders: An All-Female Senate

By Cara Giaimo

This prescient still from the 1928 film Safety Last illustrates our current predicament.

clocks

Fleeting Wonders: Doomsday Clock Remains At 3 Minutes

By Cara Giaimo

Cash For Your Warhol, Inman Square's newest fake business.

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An Afternoon At Boston's Newest Parody Storefront, 'Cash For Your Warhol'

By Cara Giaimo

A snow fly does its thing.

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Fleeting Wonders: Winter's Toughest Bugs Have Antifreeze Blood

By Cara Giaimo

Work in progress on "Imagine a Palm Tree..." Navine G. Khan-Dossos's artistic exploration of the palm in Athenian culture.

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Palm Trees Have Vanished All Over Athens, But Not For The Reason People Think

By Cara Giaimo

Fleeting Wonders: Gold-Sprinkled Haggis With a $5,700 Price Tag

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Fleeting Wonders: Gold-Sprinkled Haggis With a $5,700 Price Tag

By Cara Giaimo

The Cable Hut–once a war tool, now a romantic getaway.

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Fleeting Wonders: Vacation In a WWI Cable Hut

By Cara Giaimo

The submerged forest at Portreath, Cornwall.

forests

Fleeting Wonders: A Petrified Forest Unearthed By A Beach Storm

By Cara Giaimo

A slightly post-Victorian pair of readers in Bautzen, Germany.

victorian literature

I Made My Friends Test the 19th Century’s Hottest Dating Tactic: Reading Aloud

By Cara Giaimo

Epiphany bathers line up at an ice hole in Nerli in 2008.

sacred spaces

Fleeting Wonders: Russian Orthodox Christians Take the Epiphany Plunge

By Cara Giaimo

The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in D.C.

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Why MLK Day Is a Big Deal in Hiroshima

Martin Luther King Jr. was also outspoken against nuclear weapons.

By Cara Giaimo

The Fremont Bridge, future home to an infrastructural poet.

bridges

Fleeting Wonders: Seattle is Looking For a Poet to Live in a Bridge

By Cara Giaimo

A harrowing moment from "The Queens-bound 7 Line."

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Who is Filming NYC Subway Videos From the Train Operator's Chair?

By Cara Giaimo

A member of the Watamu Local Ocean Trust releases a Hawksbill turtle back into the ocean.

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Fleeting Wonders: A Turtle's-Eye View of the Kenyan Coast

By Cara Giaimo

A map detailing all of the countries with which you can and cannot Share a Coke.

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Why Did 'Share a Coke' Blacklist These 24 Countries?

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A very small section of Banville, California's Museum of Pinball.

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Fleeting Wonders: The World's Biggest Pinball Museum Is Open This Weekend

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This dressed-up baby goat is an approximation of the future goats available for snuggling at the farm.

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Fleeting Wonders: Be A Volunteer Goat-Snuggler

By Cara Giaimo

"Recycling Labyrinth," by Mona Sfeir, a maze entirely made out of plastic bottles.

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Stone Age, Bronze Age... Plastic Age? The Race to Define Our Epoch

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A Dutch branch shows off a hair ice wig.

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Fleeting Wonders: Scottish Trees Grow Mysterious Ice Toupees

By Cara Giaimo

This 1523 illustration of the opening of British Parliament is the earliest rendering of a Speech from the Throne.

politics

State of the Union Speeches are a Global, and Sometimes Strange, Tradition

By Cara Giaimo

Bowie in scarlet and gray, years later on his Glass Spider tour.

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Fleeting Wonders: On His Second Single, David Bowie Was A Laughing Gnome

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Fleeting Wonders: A Floating Forest in New York City

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Fleeting Wonders: A Floating Forest in New York City

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