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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023
GEOLOGICAL MYSTERIES
Salt Desert Patterns
Salt deserts around the world, with their vast, seemingly featureless, impossibly photogenic natural wonders, have understandably become popular tourist destinations. These deserts appear to share a strange feature: what can be described as honeycomb-like patterns composed of low ridges emerging from the salty crust. For years, scientists have been scratching their heads as to why these mysterious polygons exist—though now, an answer seems close at hand.
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GASTRO OBSCURA
Caesar the Chocolatier
At Stratford Hall, the future birthplace of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, lavish Christmas dinners would end with small, steaming cups of hot chocolate. The drink was sure to impress the guests since the Lee family owned one of the colony’s few household chocolate stones for turning imported beans into a luxurious brew. Said hot chocolate was the work of one of Virginia’s few chocolatiers: a man known only as Caesar, the enslaved African-American chef whose virtuosity helped make Stratford Hall a centerpiece of Virginia’s high society during the mid-1700s.
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IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
The Original Taco Bell Building
Irvine isn’t the place where the first Taco Bell opened (that would be Downey, a city about 30 miles northwest of Irvine), but Irvine has something a bit stranger to its name. Since 2015, a nondescript parking lot behind the Taco Bell headquarters has been the home of the original Taco Bell building.
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ATLAS OBSCURA COURSES
The Science, History, and Future of Dreaming
In this lecture series led by neuroscientist and author Sidarta Ribeiro, we’ll explore dreams from a variety of perspectives; diving into the past and tracing its evolution, and understanding how it came to play a central role in human history and psychology. By the end of our time together, you’ll have a deeper understanding of what dreams are and how they’ve shaped our world today, as well as new tools to examine your own dreams in relation to your waking life.
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MILITARY HISTORY
Helen of Bikini
On July 26, 1946, the U.S. military tried a new type of nuclear test. A joint Army/Navy task force had suspended a nuclear device, oddly named
Helen of Bikini
, 90 feet below the surface of the water, in the middle of Bikini Atoll, one of the isolated rings of coral and land that make up the Marshall Islands. Arrayed around the 21-kiloton bomb were dozens of target ships, which the Navy believed could survive the blast, be decontaminated, and sail out of the lagoon. Spoiler: They did not.
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NEECE, TEXAS
'Cast Away' Crossroads
The final scene of the film
Cast Away
is one of the most noteworthy endings of a film in the early 2000s, with a long-lost package finally finding its way home, and protagonist Chuck Noland (played by Tom Hanks) finding himself at both a metaphorical and literal crossroads in his life. Film buffs are able to stand on the same spot as Tom Hanks, as marked by a red dot on the road, and recreate the scene in ways they deem fit.
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NO LAUGHING MATTER
Tanganyika’s Laughter Epidemic
The most famous example of a laughter epidemic happened in Tanzania (then Tanganyika) in 1962, with uncontrollable laughter affecting perhaps 1,000 people for several months. Sufferers’ symptoms included recurring attacks of laughing and crying that lasted from a few hours up to 16 days. These fits were accompanied by restlessness—aimless running, occasional violence—but there was no evidence of organic causes.
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BROXBURN, SCOTLAND
William Wallace Marker
Fifteen miles west of Edinburgh lies Almondell and Calderwood Country. Open all year around and free to visit, this spacious green wilderness area covers 220 acres of woodland and riverside walks. It is here that you will find two unusual carved rock slabs dating from the 18th century, including possibly the oldest Scottish memorial to the 13th-century knight Sir William Wallace.
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