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Jonathan Carey

Jonathan Carey is originally from Petersburg, Virginia. He attended the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, he studied health, science, and urban reporting. After graduation, he began a fellowship at Audubon Magazine, and later wrote for HotNewHipHop.com (covering breaking news in sports and music, particularly hip-hop and jazz culture), Everyday Health, and New Food Economy. He also served as a Staff Writer for start-up Sentient Media, where he wrote investigative stories about animal welfare, factory farming, and the influence of big agriculture on local politics. Jonathan is a diehard basketball and football fan, and of course a music fanatic. He is also an animal lover, none more than his dog, Bajan. And he's a huge history buff.
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The 16th-century Bradgate House, in the East Midlands, was one of England’s first brick buildings.

archaeology

Found: The Original Home of England's Doomed '9-Day Queen'

Stone structures beneath Bradgate House may be the real birthplace of Lady Jane Grey.

By Jonathan Carey
Cuba’s oldest Jewish cemetery will soon be seeing better days.

cemeteries

Mazel Tov: Cuba’s First Jewish Cemetery Gets an Overdue Makeover

As Havana prepares to celebrate 500 years as the country’s capital, the 109-year-old site is coming back to life.

By Jonathan Carey
Not puny any more.

sewers

Please, Stop Flushing Live Goldfish Down the Toilet

Or anything else that doesn't belong there, for that matter.

By Jonathan Carey
An Australian Research Council team surveys an archaeological site on the southern coast of the island of Seram in 2019.

exploration

How Many People Did It Take to First Occupy Australia?

Scientists are looking deeper into how the continent's first people arrived.

By Jonathan Carey
A female Habropoda laboriosa, better known as the southeastern blueberry bee.

blueberries

The Key to Bodacious Blueberries Is a Bumper Crop of Bees

To attract them, though, it helps to have forest nearby.

By Jonathan Carey
Red Noctiluca scintillans leave neon trails along beaches near Taiwan’s Matsu Islands.

science

China’s Bioluminescent Blue Tears Are Beautiful and Associated With Toxic Blooms

And scientists are making new discoveries about them using satellite imagery.

By Jonathan Carey
Pretty, bad for historic walls.

architecture

Invasive, Photogenic Plants Are Taking a Toll on Istanbul’s Ancient Walls

One researcher is recommending a zero-tolerance policy.

By Jonathan Carey
The kiva at Chaco Canyon was the site of political meetings and spiritual gatherings.

native americans

Ancient Fingerprints Help Unravel Just Who Was Making Pots at Chaco Canyon

New research shows it wasn't as gendered as once thought.

By Jonathan Carey
Grand Prismatic Spring.

volcanoes

A Swarm of Aftershocks Swept Through Yellowstone, From a Quake 60 Years Ago

Earthquakes are just plain inscrutable.

By Jonathan Carey
Humboldt’s Tableau Physique was a landmark for biogeography.

volcanoes

An Explorer's Famed Infographic May Have a Big, Fatal Flaw

Alexander von Humboldt might have been using the wrong mountain.

By Jonathan Carey
The Great Hall and the Lord’s Quarters in the virtual reconstruction.

archaeology

Walk Through the Halls of Scotland's Lords of the Isles (Virtually)

A digital reconstruction revives a medieval seat of power.

By Jonathan Carey
The historic home of the Yokoi family of Marugame, Japan, has been given to The Huntington.

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How Do You Move a 320-Year-Old House Across an Ocean?

A historic structure in Japan is making its way to California.

By Jonathan Carey
It’s believed these jars once held bodies before burial.

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Found: A New Plain of Massive Stone Jars in Laos, Used to Store the Dead

The society responsible for them remains a mystery.

By Jonathan Carey
One of the Virtual Archaeology Museum’s wrecks, known as 15377, has a visitor.

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How to Explore a Shipwreck From the Comfort of Your Couch

Without the training, equipment, and utter terror.

By Jonathan Carey
The 1957 Stokes test, of a 19-kiloton weapon, in Nevada.

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Deep in the Ocean’s Trenches, The Legacy of Nuclear Testing Lives

The discovery of "bomb carbon" miles below the surface shows how deep human impact goes.

By Jonathan Carey
A tubeworm growing from under an outcrop, surrounded by other deep sea species.

atlantic

Found: For the First Time, Deep Sea Tube Worms Near the U.S. East Coast

You never know what you'll find when you turn over a rock.

By Jonathan Carey
Indigenous Taiwanese women and men working together to prep and store grain.

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An Ancient Snapshot of Native Taiwanese Culture

A newly available Library of Congress collection shows the lives of an oft-overlooked minority.

By Jonathan Carey

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Celebrate Children’s Book Week With Rare Titles Courtesy of the Library of Congress

A hundred years and counting of promoting childhood literacy.

By Jonathan Carey
The Perito Moreno glacier at Los Glaciares National Park. The park is predicted to lose about 60 percent of its current ice volume by 2100.

unesco

Glaciers at World Heritage Sites Are Melting Before the World’s Eyes

A new inventory shows just how at risk these icy giants are.

By Jonathan Carey
Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia.

bones

Found: One of the Oldest Burial Sites in the Amazon

The discovery could change what we understand about the rainforest's ancient settlements.

By Jonathan Carey
Two fishing vessels nestled in the sands near the former seaport city of Moynaq, Uzbekistan.

science

Why It's So Hard to Study the Toxic Dust Blowing From Earth's Youngest Desert

It all comes down to something scientists call "ground truth."

By Jonathan Carey
A sand tiger shark swims with the fishes, not far from one of the North Carolina shipwrecks.

science

Sand Tiger Sharks Are Drawn to North Carolina's Shipwrecks

They return to the same sunken vessels over and over again, and researchers are trying to figure out why.

By Jonathan Carey
An artis’s rendition of Simbakubwa kutokaafrika.

fossils

Found: One of the Largest Carnivorous Land Mammals Ever, in a Museum Drawer

Despite its massive size, it had been overlooked for 40 years.

By Jonathan Carey
One woman was buried with her feet removed and placed by her side, and her arms behind her head.

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Found: Mysterious Ritual Burials From the Iron Age

Ancient Britons had a complicated relationship with the dead.

By Jonathan Carey
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