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Lovely Peeps, #Travel for me is restricted to my armchair at the moment - but I have no excuse to not still learn about this big, beautiful world of ours. 😊
Especially if a monk in #Venice in the mid-fifteenth century could do it well enough to create a #map of the world that *remains a reference for research to this day*. 😲
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fra-mauro-map
#History #AtlasObscura #Cartography #FraMauro #Archeology #Medieval #MedievalHistory #Explorers #Legends #Mythology
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We share our secret for finding cool stuff to see and do. Plus, we reveal our favorite state (so far). Click below for more ⬇️
#AtlasObscura #RoadsideAmerica #Idaho #FullTimeTraveling #FullTimeCamping #FullTimeRVing #TravelingTheUS #CamperLife #VeganLife #RetiredLife #FIRELife #HealthyVegan
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We share our secret for finding cool stuff to see and do. Plus, we reveal our favorite state (so far). Click below for more ⬇️
#AtlasObscura #RoadsideAmerica #Idaho #FullTimeTraveling #FullTimeCamping #FullTimeRVing #TravelingTheUS #CamperLife #VeganLife #RetiredLife #FIRELife #HealthyVegan
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This bell has chimed around 10 billion times: one of the longest-lasting scientific experiments in the world. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oxford-electric-bell
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@BasementDweller3000 I'd start with #AtlasObscura to identify the big wacky spots that you havent seen in #Boston https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/boston-massachusetts/places
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@sfpl Cohen Place is now the Tenderloin National Forest.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tenderloin-national-forest
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The Real ‘Survivor’ Island That Changed Reality TV Forever – Atlas Obscura
Pulau Tiga, best known as the original ‘Survivor’ island, was as much of a character on the show as the contestants were.
by The Podcast Team July 25, 2025
The Original ‘Survivor’ Island Changed Television Forever
Dylan Thuras: I want to ask you a question before we get to any of this meatier stuff. If you had to be a contestant on any reality TV show, what would it be?
Emily Nussbaum: The problem is, if you write a book about the history of reality TV, you are much less prone to want to be a contestant on any reality television show. This isn’t because I hate reality TV. The book is like, you know, talks about the ugly parts and the beautiful parts and, you know, the sort of punk, creative provocations. But I’m trying to think if there’s any show.
Dylan: You have to choose. There’s gotta be one.
Emily: Real Housewives of The New Yorker.
Dylan: This is Emily Nussbaum. Emily is the staff writer at The New Yorker. And although she may not want to star in reality TV, she has written one of the most insightful, interesting books on the subject that I’ve ever read. It’s called Cue the Sun! So would you not, you would not go on Survivor?
Emily: I would just be terrible on Survivor. I’m a weakling. They cast for resilience, and that is not my strongest quality, but I think this is probably true of many nonfiction writers. You know, there are exceptions. I would not go on Survivor, but I do think Survivor is a fascinating show. And I’ll say up front, when I wrote this book, of course I knew I was going to write about Survivor. When it came out, it blew people’s minds.
Dylan: As you know, this podcast is about place. And in Survivor, place is very important. The contestants are actually kind of competing against the place as much as they are each other. It is the island which can really get you. It’s filled with creepy crawlies, there’s no food, it feels like everything is trying to take you down. But Survivor is also a reality TV show. So while the island is a very real place, it’s also a TV set. Much of it is constructed. So there’s always this question: How much of this is real? How much of it is artificial? How much are the contestants actually trying to survive the island? Or are they just trying to survive the show’s producers? I’m Dylan Thuras, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Today, we are taking a trip to the island of Pulau Tiga. Emily Nussbaum takes us there, and she takes us back in time to the very first season of Survivor. It’s a story about making up an entire genre of reality TV as you go, and about the many, many mistakes you make along the way. It’s complete with styrofoam sets, producers sleeping on the beach with thousands and thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment, and of course, a grub eating contest. Turns out, grubs are kind of tasty.
This is an edited transcript of the Atlas Obscura Podcast: a celebration of the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps.
Aerial view of Pulau Tiga Bfyhdch / CC BY SA-4.0Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Real ‘Survivor’ Island That Changed Reality TV Forever – Atlas Obscura
#2025 #America #AtlasObscura #Film #Game #Health #History #Island #Libraries #RealityTV #Survivor #Television #Travel #UnitedStates
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📰 Ah, yes, the wire that magically turns #Manhattan into a #cozy, woven nest. Clearly, the Big Apple just needed a symbolic hug from Atlas Obscura's absurdly overpriced trips to Uzbekistan and Romania to feel like home. 🚀💸
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eruv-manhattan-invisible-wire-jewish-symbolic-religious-home #AtlasObscura #travel #absurd #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, yes, the riveting tale of a rusty bus taking its final lap around the ice block, because apparently nothing says #adventure like freezing your toes off in a clunky metal box. 🚍❄️ Meanwhile, Atlas Obscura distracts us with overpriced jaunts to places with actual warmth and stories, because who wouldn't want to pay extra for #frostbite memories? 🌴💸
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antarctica-ivan-the-terra-bus-retired #rustybus #freezingtoes #AtlasObscura #memories #HackerNews #ngated -
Interesting interview with the host of YouTube channel Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong, examining the inaccuracies of dinosaur toys. I now know how to properly make "dinosaur hands"!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paleontology-accurate-dinosaurs
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If I ever get back down to the NYC area, I might try to visit the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum. I like old-fashioned stuff like this.
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We added nearly 2,000 places to the Atlas this year—these are 24 of our favorites.#atlasobscura #history&culture #architecture #nature #museumsandcollections #archaeology #naturalwonders #section-Articles
Our Favorite New Places of 2024 -
I love this site. They have articles about all sorts of different topics! They also have some wonderful gifts that go well beyond the ordinary. This is also the home of Gastro Obscura, where they write about the most fascinating, delicious, and at times, bizarre foods from around the world. No, I don't work for them. I'm just a fan.
#AtlasObscura #books #facts #food #GastroObscura #gifts #holidays #learning #interesting #travel
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Plantasia at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
https://www.moogmusic.com/news/celebrating-plantasia
#Music #Moog #MortGarson #Plantasia #Brooklyn #BrooklynBotanicGarden #DFAM #BanaHaffar #Patricia #GhostlyInternational #AtlasObscura #AdrienneAdar #Kirlian #SacredBones
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Plantasia at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
https://www.moogmusic.com/news/celebrating-plantasia
#Music #Moog #MortGarson #Plantasia #Brooklyn #BrooklynBotanicGarden #DFAM #BanaHaffar #Patricia #GhostlyInternational #AtlasObscura #AdrienneAdar #Kirlian #SacredBones
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Plantasia at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
https://www.moogmusic.com/news/celebrating-plantasia
#Music #Moog #MortGarson #Plantasia #Brooklyn #BrooklynBotanicGarden #DFAM #BanaHaffar #Patricia #GhostlyInternational #AtlasObscura #AdrienneAdar #Kirlian #SacredBones
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'THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE HERE at #AtlasObscura #highlight #women who have shaped our past, but this #WomensHistoryMonth we also want to shout out the #scientists , #activists , #chefs , #historians , #artists, and #adventurers who are making #history right now. From the scrubland of #Argentina and the kitchens of #Japan all the way to the #SouthPole , these women are writing the next chapter of history.'
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/womens-history-month-2023
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Atlas Obscura on a very nice museum. The Museum ENTER in Switzerland features early radios, calculators, computers and even the Curta.
#AtlasObscura #Museums #Switzerland #Computers #Calculators #Radios #MechanicalCalculators #Curta #History #Technology #Engineering
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The ghostly #radio📡 station that no one claims to run - "MDZhB" has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why. https://bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run #numberstations #atlasobscura
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Sunday soundtrack is the insanely cool psychedelic acid pop of ‘Sound Mirrors’ by Syd Arthur.
The bandname is a play on Herman Hesse’s ‘Siddhartha’ as well as a nod to Syd Barrett & Arthur Lee. Which is quite a good fix on where the music is.
Sound mirrors are large 1930s concrete lenticular monoliths that stud the British coastline, erected as pre-radar early warning amplifiers of approaching aircraft noise.
#soundmirror #radar #history #music #psychedelia #AtlasObscura #WW2 #music #indie
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How the Vampire Finch Developed a Taste for Blood
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Want to relive the eclipse? Then, listen up.#solarsystem #moon #sun #festivals #atlasobscura #podcast #eclipse #section-Articles
Podcast: Total Eclipse of Our Hearts -
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/shyvers-multiphone #atlasobscura #TIL
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"For all of Americans’ faults and missteps, irrationalities and peculiarities, this was a country that I always assumed, on some level, made some kind of sense. There were strange tales, but they were blips, errata, diversions. But the more time I’ve spent in this country, the more I’ve come to see these moments of oddness as central to the American story. The United States, in a word, is eerie." https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/column-mad-gasser-of-mattoon via #AtlasObscura
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"The Fight Between Cataphiles and Underground Police in the Paris Catacombs"
The Paris Catacombs started as overflow for cemeteries, but I learned today that they also brewed beer and spirits down there.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-paris-catacombs
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Intentionally crashing a plane - for science:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/727-plane-crash-wreckage-mexico -
Freaky experience: just followed a link to an #AtlasObscura article and something at the site triggered a sound loop as if a video was autoplaying. But leaving the site didn’t stop the loop. Closing all apps in the phone didn’t stop it. Only powering down stopped it.
Anyone else had this experience at Atlas Obscura? It behaved sort of like a virus which has me worried.
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Today I went to the federal courthouse in Central Islip to see the Shorthand Gallery.
It was incredible.
Photos, it turns out, are not permitted in any federal buildings (oops) so I can’t share pics of the interior, but it’s a tiny corner of the lobby of a beautiful building and I spent over an hour there admiring the progression of shorthand from BC to present.
As a non-practicing lawyer, court reporters will always be miraculously magical sources of wonder for me.
