Why One Man Is Walking Around the World With His Dog
(via Great Big Story) Who better to see the world with than your best friend? Especially when your best friend
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Inspiration
This Ancient Greek Shipwreck Is Now an Underwater Museum
(via Smithsonian) The Peristera, a cargo vessel loaded with thousands of amphorae, sank in the Aegean Sea around 500 B.C.
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Using Digital Design to Create Physical Art
(via Great Big Story) When the world is your muse, inspiration can strike at any moment. Using digital design tools,
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The Accidental Invention of the Slip ‘N Slide
(via Smithsonian) A young boy’s summer antics 60 years ago inspired his father to create the timeless backyard water toy
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Nardo Ring: Porsche’s High Speed Test Track in Italy
(via Amusing Planet) The Nardò Ring is a 12.5 km long high speed circular test track located in a remote
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How Milton Glaser Came to Design the Iconic Poster of Bob Dylan
(via Smithsonian) The 1966 illustration of the folk-rock icon captured the psychedelic dazzle of the flower-power era. Graphic designer Milton
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A 16th Century Math Book With Pop-Up Models
(via Amusing Planet) Euclid’s Elements, first published in 300 BC, was one of the most important and influential textbooks ever
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The 12-Year-Old Scientist Taking On Flint’s Water Crisis
(via YouTube) When Gitanjali Rao first heard about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, she wanted to help in any
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13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using
(via Mental Floss) Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses,
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8 Trade Routes That Shaped World History
(via Mental Floss) Trade routes have popped up throughout ancient history, stitching places of production to places of commerce. Scarce
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The Delightful Doodles and Hidden Scribbles on the Backs of Artworks
(via Atlas Obscura) George Eksts has digitized 200,000 works on paper. Several hundred had writings or drawings on the back.
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The Lone Man Building a Cathedral By Hand
(via Great Big Story) For 53 years, Justo Gallego has been building a cathedral by hand on the outskirts of
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