Jan 28
In this week’s round-up of landscape reads, we’ve got sacred grounds, coffee grounds, and camping grounds.
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Jan 27
In 2004, the U.S. Army made a colossal mistake. It introduced a new digital camouflage called the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP), a single pattern designed to work across all environments. Only a few months later, however, as the war in Iraq was intensifying by the day, every soldier on the ground knew the truth: by trying to work in every situation, UCP worked in none of them
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Jan 27
The ongoing drought in the U.S. west and mountain region is leading to the surprise reappearance of historical artifacts, including entire towns and villages emerging from the sand and muck left behind by drying reservoirs.
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Jan 24
Ski season and crap tons of snow don’t always coincide with one another in the way resorts would like. That means they have to use the power of machines to manufacture snow. The resort of Zermatt, Switzerland, does that on a polar vortex-like scale, thanks to 1,000 machines pumping out 7 megawatts of power for oodles of artificial fresh powder.
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Jan 23
What if we could identify plants not by sight but by sound? It’s not entirely fanciful: every plant makes a unique set of sounds—an auditory signature, if you will—influenced by its physiology. But these sounds, usually in the ultrasonic range, are not for our ears.
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Jan 23
Pictures of space are thrilling. Period. For All Mankind is a new exhibition at London’s Breese Little Gallery, highlighting a treasure trove of vintage NASA photos taken from 1964 to 1983.
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Jan 22
In the desert two hours northeast of Los Angeles, just outside the town of Barstow, there is a peculiar little place called the Calico Early Man Site. If you’ve driven either direction, from L.A. to Las Vegas or back, you’ve probably seen the sign for it, mysteriously and without any real information implying that the visiting public might want to stop by.
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Jan 21
This week’s roundup includes sex, violence, and truffles—the last of which is not unlike the drug trade, with a surprisingly shady underside. So, without further ado, here’s this week’s R-rated landscape reads.
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Jan 10
On our way back from CES, Gizmodo took a detour into the desert to explore a particularly bizarre aspect of the region’s electrical infrastructure, the so-called Coyote Dry Lake Return Electrode.
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