Erin Blakemore

Erin Blakemore

 

Erin Blakemore is a Boulder, Colorado-based journalist. Her work has appeared in publications like The Washington Post, TIME, mental_floss, Popular Science and JSTOR Daily. Learn more at erinblakemore.com.

A close call at Lake Oroville raises questions about the safety of America's dams.

Failure at One of These 15,000 American Dams Would Be Fatal

A quiet crisis is afoot as the nation's infrastructure ages

The late justice's papers will be housed at Harvard Law.

Antonin Scalia’s Papers Find a Home at Harvard Law

The Supreme Court justice left behind a substantial legal and archival legacy

A child stands in the Côte d’Ivoire charcoal yard where his mother works.

WHO Warns That Pollution Is Killing Millions of Children

New reports say that one in four deaths of young people under the age of five can be attributed to the environment

Space weather may look cool, but it could hurt astronauts.

When it Comes to Predicting Solar Storms, Space May Not Be the Place

A new study shows that earth-based observations can get warnings out sooner

Veterinarians stand with Omsin the green sea turtle, whose life they saved during an hours-long operation.

This Sea Turtle Ate 11 Pounds of Coins

Veterinarians removed the 900+ coins from Omsin the turtle's stomach after they noticed she was acting erratic

What did J.P. Morgan's library smell like in 1906?

Nosy Researchers Are Sniffing a Vintage Library

It’s all an effort to recreate an olfactory landscape of yore

Amsterdam's Central Station will again take center stage when the city widens some of its canals.

Amsterdam Is Widening Some of Its Canals

Soon, the city’s iconic Central Station will look more like its old self

This lumpy moon would have made short work of NASA's MAVEN craft.

NASA Spacecraft Has Close Call With One of Mars’ Moons

Left unattended, MAVEN and Phobos could have collided

These skull fragments have features that seem to combine human and Neanderthal traits.

Scientists Think These Skulls May Be New Human Ancestor

Two fossils combine early human, Neanderthal features

The replica club will be open through the end of the month.

This Short-Lived 1930s Speakeasy Was a Sanctuary for Gay Londoners

And now you can visit a recreation

Lou Reed graffiti in France is a reminder of the rock star's international infuence.

Lou Reed’s Papers Have Found a Home

The vicious Velvet Underground frontman will live on at the New York Public Library

Collars and tags are used to track animals like panthers.

Tracking Collars Can Lead Poachers Straight to Animals, Scientists Warn

A study says that the new technology could hurt more than it helps

These tiny filament-like fossils could be the oldest evidence of life on Earth.

Scientists Think They’ve Found the Oldest Fossil Ever

The controversial claim suggests that microbes lived on Earth half a billion years earlier than thought

Wilmer Souder poses with a microscope—one of the newfangled tools with which he helped pioneer the field of forensic science.

Why Nobody Remembers the Forefather of Forensic Science

Wilmer Souder was a hidden pioneer of a still developing field

One surprising group is getting colon cancer at rates not seen since the 1890s.

New Study Shows Sharp Rise in Colorectal Cancers Among Young Adults

Its authors are not sure why the cancers have risen so much—only that they’re increasing every year

Workers labor in the fields in the shadow of Mt. Williamson.

View Daily Life in a Japanese-American Internment Camp Through the Lens of Ansel Adams

In 1943, one of America’s best-known photographers documented one of the best-known internment camps

Ray Yoshida, Arbitrary Approach, 1983

New Exhibition Lets You Look at Art While Playing Pinball

<i>Kings and Queens</i> tracks the game’s influence on a group of Chicago artists

This Roman road is part of a newly opened McDonalds.

New McDonalds Has a Cool Design Element: an Ancient Roman Road

Have a bit of history with that Happy Meal

Prayer wheels are just one of the sounds preserved and remixed in a new project.

Listen to the Sounds of Sacred Spaces Around the World

A new project documents, then remixes, religious and spiritual sounds

This image, entitled "Doing Their Share, Too," celebrated the war work of black women.

This African American Artist’s Cartoons Helped Win World War II

Charles Alston knew how to turn art into motivation

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