Caviar Wishes: An Abandoned Alaska Salmon Hatchery
The abandoned Jerry Myers Fish Hatchery in Skagway, Alaska was a vocational project offering local high school students a chance to work with even smaller fry. Eureka, Ikura! A photo dating ...
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Book Box Bonanza : 12 Freaky Little Free Libraries
Since 2009 over 50,000 Little Free Library book exchange boxes have sprung up on lawns worldwide, though some are worthy of a surprised second glance. You've probably passed a Little Free ...
Chapter 11 File: Eleven Eerie Closed & Abandoned Libraries
Better dead than read? Though the librarians' shushing days are long past, you still won't find many places quieter than these 11 abandoned libraries. ...
If You Build It: A True Story of Hands-On Design Education
What if high schools replaced shop classes with results-driven, full-scale architectural projects, where the goal was to collaborate and make something substantial for the entire community? If it ...
Lessons in Graffiti: Math Symbols Make Street Art Equations
1 window plus 1 window equals 2 windows - seems obvious, but it warrants at least a double-take, so to speak, when you see it so explicitly expressed. Simple black-outlined, white-filled, ...
Monster Mash: 8 Giant, Earth-Shaking, Prehistoric Beasts
Some of the coolest extinct animals are now the most mundane. A giant rodent the size of a small car is much more exciting than the one scurrying on the subway track. Prehistoric animals almost ...
H is For Historic: 2 Incredible 19th Century Alphabets
Every generation has had its own unique brand of art and its own ways of teaching children. These incredible occupational alphabets from the mid-19th century are an amusing intersection of the ...
Skill Transfer: 12 Video Games That Help You Get A Life
Tired of headlines like these? "Gamers most likely to suddenly die in the street", "Warcraft Ate My Boyfriend" and so on? Us too. Ever since video gaming leapt from nerdy male-only, teen-only ...
