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I really never get tired of blogging about this place.
Behold the latest addition to the Museo Subacuatico de Arte (MUSA) off the coast of Cancun. Not far from the underwater crowd of people and man sitting on his couch watching TV parks this Beetle — with a sleepy person on the hood.
Your Stuff to Blow Your Mind duo is back in HowStuffWorks’ Atlanta home base after attending the World Science Festival in New York City. We’ll be sharing all we learned in a series of forthcoming blog posts and podcasts, but here’s just a little something I came across when I fit in a trip to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Yes, what you’re seeing is essentially storm chasing as an art form.
If so, I’d like to point out that UNESCO recognizes traditional Mexican cuisine as an “intangible cultural world heritage” — right alongside Peru’s scissors dance and Spain’s human towers.
Here’s why UNESCO thinks we should protect traditional Mexican food with our lives: One, the deliciousness has been passed down from generation to generation. It shows up at births; it shows up on the Day of the Dead.
I can’t remember the podcast where we referenced it, but at some point Josh and I got into a brief sidebar about dying languages. I believe it was in reference to a pair of researchers that were traveling the globe in an effort to record languages that are on the endangered list — a very worthwhile effort if you ask me. Well file this bit of news under sad and ironic…
Underwater Statue of a Couch Potato
by Amanda Arnold | March 9, 2011
Artist Jason DeCaires Taylor has added a few new installations to his underwater museum off the coast of Mexico. Here’s my favorite of the new folks: a man watching TV and eating a hamburger and fries.
You’re probably thinking: “Dude, put a shirt on.” But no worries; in a few months his body will be cloaked in tiny microscopic sea organisms that like to attach to stony surfaces.
Nigeria is a country that has a lot of oil. It also has a somewhat more Wild West feeling than more developed parts of the world do. And parts of the country experience crushing poverty that provides people with a certain desperation. When you put these elements together you get backyard oil refineries. This photo [...]
An Art Exhibit You Have to Swim to See
by Amanda Arnold | November 30, 2010
Have you ever encountered a crowd of statues while snorkeling?
Believe it or not, in the crystal clear waters off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, you’ll find 400 statues standing around in the sand. Why are they there?
La Isla de las Munecas: Land of Eerie Dolls
by Amanda Arnold | October 21, 2010
Let’s face it; disfigured dolls are creepy.
Welcome to La Isla de las Munecas (translation, the Island of the Dolls), home of zombie dolls. The “island” is located in the canals of Xochimilco, outside of Mexico City. Here’s its appropriately bizarre backstory…
In 1632, Pope Urban VIII had the following words inscribed on the Pantheon: “The Pantheon, the most celebrated edifice in the whole world.” Tune in to find out why he wasn’t exaggerating — and why the Pantheon ranks among the Coolest Stuff on the Planet.
The other day, I was chatting with a co-worker about The New York Times’ list of “31 Places to Go in 2010.” We agreed that Sri Lanka sounds like lovely place to see, but that — seriously, after Tightwad 2009, who has the cash for that kind of trip? After I got back to my desk, I was tooling around the Web and came across an amusing retaliation list: “10 Places Not to Go in 2010,” which includes Pakistan, Scranton, Pa., and my personal favorite, Rotorua, New Zealand, a place that, because of its geothermal activity, reeks like “cheesy feet.”
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