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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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Gerard Rijsbrack's "Deer Hunt," from the late 18th century.

animals

Are Prey Animals Scared All The Time?

By Cara Giaimo

Several sheep, not on a plane.

airplanes

Fleeting Wonders: Sheep So Gassy They Brought Down a Plane

By Cara Giaimo

A fake skeleton, cozy in a bed decorated with an (allegedly) real skull.

pirates

Are There Still Real Skeletons In Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean"?

By Cara Giaimo

Fleeting Wonders: Crashed Millennium Falcon For Sale

architecture

Fleeting Wonders: Crashed Millennium Falcon For Sale

By Cara Giaimo

The Webleck Estate today.

tunnels

The Duke Who Loved Tunnels So Much He Was Immortalized As A Literary Badger

By Cara Giaimo

A small slice of Pando looks over Utah.

trees

How A Fungus And A Tree Translated Underground Hugeness To Mainstream Success

By Cara Giaimo

A Chinese tomb guardian.

ghosts

Fleeting Wonders: Police Thwart A Chinese Ghost Wedding

By Cara Giaimo

A tank of disco jellies at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

aquariums

How Jellyfish Exhibits Became Underwater Dance Clubs

By Cara Giaimo

The Singapore skyline, circa 2009.

ancient technology

Before Farming, Writing, Or The Wheel, Humans Began Perfecting The Skyscraper

By Cara Giaimo

Hawaiian seabirds exult in their power over the economy.

animals

When The Western World Ran on Guano

By Cara Giaimo

One vertex of the 6th Annual Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival.

world record

Fleeting Wonders: 27,581 Pumpkins Colonize a Town in Illinois

By Cara Giaimo

The Svalbard Seed Bank entrance, lit up by fiberoptics the night after its opening.

war history

From WWII to Syria, How Seed Vaults Weather Wars

By Cara Giaimo

Don't listen to Yoda! You can indeed try each of these desserts.

space exploration

Tiny Star Wars Chocolates, I Ate Your Father

By Cara Giaimo

Magnetic poetry tiles, just begging to be recombined.

toys

The Past And Future Of Magnetic Poetry, The Populist Product That Began With A Sneeze

By Cara Giaimo

A detail on Pope Gregory XIII's tomb, carved by Camillo Rusconi, shows the Pope being presented with a plan for what would become the Gregorian Calendar.

sacred spaces

When The Pope Made 10 Days Disappear

By Cara Giaimo

How Modern Cartographers Marry Math and Art

maps

How Modern Cartographers Marry Math and Art

By Cara Giaimo

A sea turtle hatchling, playful and spunky in a piece from the Vision Research Collection.

animals

Fleeting Wonders: the 2015 Sea Turtle Swimsuit Collection

By Cara Giaimo

America's Crappy Plumbers, Bloomin' Awful Florists, and Dirty Cleaning Companies

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America's Crappy Plumbers, Bloomin' Awful Florists, and Dirty Cleaning Companies

By Cara Giaimo

Half of “Screens of the Four Continents and People in 48 Countries in the World,” by an unknown Edo-era Japanese painter.

maps

The Maps That Helped The Citizens Of A 'Locked Country' See The World

By Cara Giaimo

God appears to Moses as a burning bush, as depicted by Eugène Pluchart in 1848.

science

Moses Was Tripping, And Other Scientific Explanations For Biblical Miracles

By Cara Giaimo

A still from "Flower Magic," a recent Miracle-Gro ad.

plants

How a Concentration Camp Survivor and an American Huckster Created the Magic Crystals of Miracle-Gro

By Cara Giaimo

A 1970s-era chemistry setup, demonstrated by an EPA worker.

science

Polywater, the Soviet Scientific Secret That Made the World Gulp

By Cara Giaimo

The blood of St. Januarius, in an ambiguous state inside the reliquary.

saints

Fleeting Wonders: The Reliably Miraculous Blood of St. Januarius

By Cara Giaimo

Chemistry Ig Nobel winner Javier Morales gets interrupted by Miss Sweetie Poo in 2009. Morales and his cohort discovered a way to turn tequila into diamonds. (Photo: )

science

Fleeting Wonders: The 25th Ig Nobel Prizes, Celebrating Scientific Silliness

By Cara Giaimo

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