Category: Wired magazine
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Surreal Grandeur of San Francisco’s Little-Known Salt Fields
The southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area is known for expensive real estate, tech companies, and aerospace engineers. Less well known is its salt content. Yet the salt industry has been a vital part of the South Bay for more than a century. Fly into any of the region’s airports and evidence of this…
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Images from the Stasi Archives
Simon Menner’s new book Top Secret: Images from the Stasi Archives examines the vast collection of information and photos once gathered by the East German secret police. While coincidental, the timing couldn’t be better as news about the NSA surveillance program continues to dominate headlines. “I had come to realize that the public has very…
Lyra Kilston 