Eastern Sports and Western Bodies: The “Indian Club” in the United States
Although largely forgotten today, exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century. Daniel Elkind explores the rise of the phenomenon in the US, and how such efforts to keep trim and build muscle were inextricably entwined with the history of colonialism, immigration, and capitalist culture. more
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photographs from SpaceX, the American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company, and the developers of the Dragon spacecraft with the mission of sending humans to Mars. Release under CC0 license.
Plant Macro Photography by Karl Bossfeldt
Photographs capturing the sensual beauty of nature from Urformen der Kunst (Archetypes of Art) (1928) by Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932). Blossfeldt used homemade camera and lenses to magnify his subjects up to 30 times their natural size.
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In this lyrical essay on a difficult and painful topic, the poet Kathryn Nuernberger works to defy history’s commitment to distance, to unsettling effect. more
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