Images created by historicalatlas.com, this video takes us through the rise and fall of European empires over the past 1,000 years.
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November 16, 2010
10 Centuries in 5 Minutes: Video Map of Changing European Borders Over past 1,000 Years
November 8, 2010
Sweden’s Invisible Treehouse Hotel
Vacancy! One of four room styles at treehotel, a new hotel complex composed entirely of outlandish tree houses, the “mirrorcube” is situated 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. Looking somewhat like a hunting blind for the creature in the Predator movies, the mirrorcube hangs around a single tree trunk, about 30 feet above the ground.
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November 1, 2010
Framework- The Most Iconic Men’s Eyewear of the Last 100 Years
October 26, 2010
Launch Party at World’s First Private SpacePort
Sixteen months after breaking ground in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the world’s first commercial spaceport “Spaceport America” celebrated this weekend with a launch party for the facility’s two-mile-long runway (watch the ceremony here). A partnership between the State of New Mexico and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, the spaceport has been providing commercial satellite launch services for the past few years, and will soon begin its much-anticipated space tourism flights, ferrying lucky (and wealthy) customers into suborbital space for a few minutes of weightlessness and a remarkable view of our planet.
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October 25, 2010
Week’s 5 Most Popular Stories: Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2010
October 20, 2010
Chicago Highway Ripens Into Hothouse Vegetable Farm
Studio Gang made waves on the international architecture scene last year with their award-winning design for the new Aqua Tower in Chicago. Like many of the firm’s previous projects, the Aqua was designed to foster a strong connection to the outdoors and the surrounding environment. To this end, the building features outside terraces, integrated solar shading, and one of the largest green roofs in Chicago (btw, Chicago has more green roofs than any other major city on Earth). Building on their environmental roots, the Gang has also developed a radical plan to incorporate sustainable produce gardens into densely urban environments.
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October 17, 2010
Week’s 5 Most Popular Stories: Oct. 11-Oct. 17, 2010
October 17, 2010
Clowning Around on an Innovative Self Balancing Motorized Unicycle
Friends, nerds, countrymen, lend me your ears. More portable than folding bicycles and more respectable than (most) mopeds, Focus Designs‘ new Self-balancing Unicycle (SBU), keeps you upright and cruising with a similar accelerometer/gyroscope stabilization set-up as the Segway, and an innovative in-hub motor.
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October 11, 2010
Radical Cartography Maps Chicago’s Racial Divides and Nuclear Explosions
Radical Cartography is the website of historian and cartographer, Bill Rankin. Currently working on a PhD at Harvard, Rankin has done considerable research on the changing technologies of cartography (map making) and navigation in the twentieth century. His mapping activity is focused on reimagining everyday urban and territorial geographies by pushing techniques of statistical information design and rethinking everyday cartographic conventions.
Rankin’s maps help us visualize racial divides in Chicago (as featured below), university campuses surrounding Boston, building heights in Manhattan, the spread of agriculture over the past 300 years, and the location of every nuclear explosion around the world since 1945.
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October 10, 2010
Week’s 5 Most Popular Stories: Oct. 4-Oct. 10, 2010
October 6, 2010
“Bus Stop of the Future” Can Sense its Surroundings
Imagine if your local bus stop enabled you to check your e-mail, share community information on a digital message board or check the weather forecast? Even better, what if it could tell you the exact location and time of arrival of that bus that you’re waiting for?
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October 5, 2010
Matt Forcey
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