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Natasha Frost

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

I'm a former writer for Atlas Obscura and present-day fan. Find me now @natashamfrost on Twitter.
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The Convent of Santa Ines, in Seville, was founded in 1374.

churches

The Spanish Nuns in Hot Water for an 'Unauthorized' Organ Refurbishment

$170,000 for repairs or a $200,000 fine. Choose wisely.

By Natasha Frost
A classy-looking sweet potato casserole.

food

The Savvy Marketing That Put Marshmallows on Your Sweet Potato Casserole

"I’ll have it with my Roast … and again for dessert."

By Natasha Frost
Alan Tennyson holds more than 20 fossilized kakapo beaks. Just 154 of the birds are alive today.

science

The Pit of Death That Holds the History of New Zealand's Flightless Birds

A natural trap that became a grave for thousands of avians.

By Natasha Frost
One of Zack Denfield's students whips smog into a meringue in Bangalore, India.

art

With Smog Meringues, You Can Taste Your City's Air Pollution

Artists whip up a way for your taste buds to go through what your lungs do every day.

By Natasha Frost
An Amish buggy.

genetics

The Indiana Amish Are Blessed With a Genetic Fountain of Youth

The mutation confers longer life, but comes with a caveat.

By Natasha Frost
Ann Moore Gregory died in 1990, and competed up to the final years of her life.

sports

Meet Ann Gregory, Who Shattered Racist and Sexist Barriers in the Golf World

An unheralded sports pioneer, she was known as "The Queen of Negro Women’s Golf."

By Natasha Frost
Songs such as Happy Birthday have both high positive "emotional valence" and ultra-happy major seventh chords.

science

The Secret Chord That Makes Pop Music Sound Happy

The musical formula for good vibrations.

By Natasha Frost
Detail from Bronzino's murals in the Basilica di Santa Croce.

art

How Great Art Can Make You a Little Crazy

Braving the long lines to see the last Leonardo in private hands.

By Natasha Frost
A Meteor Struck the Grounds of a School in Northern Ireland (Or Did It?)

meteorites

A Meteor Struck the Grounds of a School in Northern Ireland (Or Did It?)

Strange things were afoot at Castle Gardens Primary School.

By Natasha Frost
A ferocious tiny dancer.

science

Male Mangrove Crabs Have a Taunting Victory Dance

These moves put the "man" in "mangrove crab."

By Natasha Frost
A candid shot of your camel cricket roommate.

science

You Probably Share Your Home With at Least 100 Kinds of Bugs

And cleaning more often won't change a darned thing.

By Natasha Frost
An artist's rendering of Siamogale melilutra, a giant prehistoric otter with a surprisingly powerful bite.

science

Meet the Rottweiler-Sized Prehistoric Otter With Teeth That Could Crunch Bone

Can an apex predator be cuddly?

By Natasha Frost
The sundial celebrating Marcus Novius Tubula's electoral victory.

sundials

Found: A Celebratory Roman Sundial, Two Millennia Old

A tribune of the people is still celebrating his electoral victory.

By Natasha Frost
Anatol Josepho, the inventor of the "Photomaton" photo booth that debuted in September 1925 at 1659 Broadway in New York City.

photography

The Twilight of the Analog Photo Booth

The effort to save a rare beast on the road to extinction.

By Natasha Frost
Watch a Jacobean Painting Emerge From 200 Years of Grime in Seconds

art

Watch a Jacobean Painting Emerge From 200 Years of Grime in Seconds

A mysterious 1618 lady, revealed.

By Natasha Frost
New Zealand birdwatchers survey the coast of North Korea.

politics

The New Zealand Birdwatchers Who Fly to North Korea in the Spring

The quest for a bird that continues to defy international sanctions.

By Natasha Frost
A green turtle.

science

Forensic Science Is Being Used to Crack the Secret Code of Turtle Foraging

Evidence never lies.

By Natasha Frost
Perkins+Will / Quilters Without Borders, The Asthma Quilt, 2016–17.

maps

Multidimensional Maps That Provide New Perspectives on New York City

The world's most mapped city, as you've never seen it before.

By Natasha Frost
An artist's impression of a herd of mammoths. Is one considering leaving the herd?

science

Why Teenage Male Mammoths Tended to Die in Really Silly Ways

YOLO

By Natasha Frost
Berthe, later Berthold, Buttgereit's travel pass makes no mention of tranvestitism. But "B.B. is not forbidden to wear man’s clothes" was written on the back.

nazis

The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment

The radical days of the Weimar Republic, just before the rise of Nazism.

By Natasha Frost
Not the $10,000 dram.

bars

The $10,000 Whisky Dram That Turned Out to Be Worthless

A refund was involved.

By Natasha Frost
Cratena peregrina grows up to two inches in length and prefers to live on the rocky sea bottom.

science

The Luminescent Underwater Slug Pirates of the Mediterranean Sea

Crafty nudibranchs get two meals in one.

By Natasha Frost
Police search the Deans' garden in Winton.

murder

Was Minnie Dean Really the Wickedest Woman in New Zealand History?

Revisiting the case of the only woman ever executed on its shores.

By Natasha Frost
Lilias Adie's face, reconstructed from century-old images of her skull.

31 days of halloween

Meet a Scottish 'Witch' Who Died 300 Years Ago

Digital reconstruction gives a face to a sad tale.

By Natasha Frost
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