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Ellis Barstow, the protagonist in Nick Arvin's most recent novel, is a reconstructionist—an engineer who uses forensic analysis and simulation to piece together, in minute detail, what happened at a car crash site and why.<br /> <br /> The novel is based on Arvin's own experiences in the field of crash reconstruction: Arvin thus leads an unusual double-life as a working mechanical engineer and a…
The largest collection of wild yeasts in the world fits inside a single beige chest freezer, humming quietly at the back of a busy lab in the University of California at Davis's shiny new Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. <br /> <br /> <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6092800/135 17 Yeasts in freezer 670.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="670"…
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Between 1897 and 1930, Henry Chapman Mercer, a gentleman anthropologist, set out to collect the handmade tools of everyday American life, just as industrialization was making these tools obsolete. <br /> <br /> <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6926632/mercer8.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="670" height_o="670"…
Upon first reading about it, Thomas Jefferson's house at Monticello–a structure he himself designed and that he filled with strange devices, such as
On what was to be, sadly, Venue's only stop in Oregon, we went off-road to visit the world's largest organism, a colossal fungus in the remote eastern mountains of the state, about an hour west of the arid border with Idaho.<br /> <br /> <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6922486/133 6 Car with grid and dead trees 670.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="670" height_o="447"…
<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6889818/13 Lava River Cave entrance 670.jpg" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6889818/13 Lava River Cave entrance 670_o.jpg" data-mid="37193365" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 445"/><br /> <br /> Inspired by our conversation with Penelope Boston, in…
<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6887373/HollowMtn.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="800" height_o="800" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6887373/HollowMtn_o.jpg" data-mid="37193299" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 670"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6887373/HollowMtn_o.jpg" />There is not a whole lot to…
<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6624141/PennyBostonInterview.jpg" width="670" height="412" width_o="670" height_o="412" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6624141/PennyBostonInterview_o.jpg" data-mid="37176141" border="0" align="left" data-title="670 — 670 × 412"/>A landscape painting above Penny Boston's living room entryway depicts astronauts exploring…
While staying in Moab, Utah, and after interviewing Vicki Webster of the U.S. National Park Service, Venue received a dinner invitation on Twitter from a small community arts organization called Epicenter, located just up the road in Green River.<br /> <br /> <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/7/236146/6799475/30 7 Epicenter 670.jpg" width="670" height="445" width_o="670"…
