On a particularly cold, sunny day recently, thousands of people arriving in Lower Manhattan were forced to reroute their commute—because huge slivers of ice were cracking off of the One World Trade Center and plunging hundreds of feet down onto the street. And the WTC isn’t alone.
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What’s cooler than being cool? Ice cold. Exactly. The Swedish town of Luleå took that saying literally because they formed an incredible ice orchestra called Ice Music that uses musical instruments sculpted from ice—yes, ice—to performs songs inside a concert hall that’s basically an igloo.
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Are you sick and tired of skiing and ice skating? Why not take a trip to see one of America’s mind-bendingly amazing ice castles. It’s like a walking through a frosty landscape dreamt up by Richard Serra but built by nature. Tickets are now available!
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Even a fine glass of Scotch can fall victim to watery, square ice cubes. That’s where a good ice ball maker comes in.
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A nebula in space? The surface of a faraway planet? A fantastic sci-fi illustration? Or just microscopic goo? It’s just ice, like the rest of these fantastic photos by Michael Wagner:
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Antarctica looks amazing from space
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Joel Huerta, wearing his brother’s NYPD Auxiliary vest, heads back to his own apartment after clearing the local florist’s walk; there, he will continue to clear a path in what has become one of New York City’s more snow-filled winters. Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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It’s been an especially cold and dreary winter week for just about everyone—except the host city for the Winter Olympics. It’s a rather chilly peek at what’s Ruining Our Cities.
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US soldiers have been on the receiving end of some pretty gruesome news over the past few days. As part of a Justice Department suit against military contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root, it’s been revealed that soldiers serving in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 consumed ice from unsanitized containers that also served as makeshift morgues.
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