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2025 Dark Sky photography winners

2025 Dark Sky photography winners. The cool thing about this collection are the technical details in the locations about the photos.

PJH Studios artwork, Portrait of a sun

PJH Studios

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  • 2025 Dark Sky photography winners

    2025 Dark Sky photography winners. The cool thing about this collection are the technical details in the locations about the photos.

  • The logistics of feeding Alaska

    Feeding the population of Alaska is a logistical endeavor, only made harder by all of the tariffs. Getting fresh food to Alaska has been a challenge since the first settlers began scratching in the creek beds for gold. It was just too far from the continent’s more populated areas, separated from the contiguous United States…

  • The perfect grocery store shopping list app does not exist

    Planning a grocery shopping list seems like a thing technology could solve. But the complex the needs of meal ingredients, family budgets, how grocery stores are set up differently everywhere… It’s a recipe for insanity.

  • Setlist.FM changing concerts

    Setlist.FM has been around quite a while. For music in concert nerds, it’s an awesome way to follow an artist as they tour. And it’s changing how artist put together their setlists. For musicians who regularly change their set list, it allows them to check what they last played the last time they were in…

  • 21 tips to host a party

    21 tips to host a party. 18) To leave a group conversation, just slowly step back and then step away. Don’t draw attention to your leaving or you’ll be pulled back in. It feels mildly weird to do this but it’s worth it. 19) Throughout the party, prioritize introducing people to each other and hosting…

  • Axolotls are nifty

    Axoltls are weird, alien and fascinating creatures that can regrow limbs. Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have solved part of the mystery of how they accomplish this feat—by activating stem cells throughout the body, not just at the injury site. In a paper…

  • Father Pete leads the masses at Notre Dame

    Thirty seconds into the video, the camera shows Father Pete — to call him anything else is to barely know him — striding into the Basilica. He’s as identifiable by his buzz cut and black-rimmed glasses as he is by his perpetual smile. Sunlight follows him through the doors. That’s when the student section loses…

  • Teens start banned book club

    After books were banned, what better way for teenagers to rebel than to start a banned book club? “It was really difficult for our first year,” Gooblar-Perovic added. “We couldn’t be like an official club with our school, because it would be, legally, iffy.” The group persisted. After the part of the law that affects…

  • The rise of chatfishing

    ChatGPT and its contemporaries are becoming dating tools, or at worse, crutches to mask social conversational deficiencies, aka chatfishing. Soon, Rachel and her match were speaking daily, their conversations running the gamut from the ridiculous (favourite memes, ketchup v mayonnaise) to the sublime (expectations in love, childhood traumas). Often they’d have late-night exchanges that left…

  • Mexico City’s zombie walk

    Every year, Mexico City hosts a zombie walk. Quite festive with a lot of different interpretations.