Hunting for Gooseneck Barnacles

Spanish fisherman Santi Diaz Mosquera knows every journey down the treacherous Galician rocks in search of a handful of prized gooseneck barnacles could be his last.
Read more: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hunting-for-gooseneck-barnacles?source=Snapzu

NYC’s best new architecture of 2016, from Governors Island to the Oculus

From epic public works to affordable developments in the outer boroughs, 2016 was a banner year for New York City architecture. By Amy Plitt.
Read more: http://ny.curbed.com/2016/12/20/14020634/new-york-city-best-new-architecture-of-2016?source=Snapzu

The Meat and Three Is the Ultimate Southern Food Experience

Meat and threes are foundational to Southern cuisine.
Read more: http://www.eater.com/2016/12/27/13990844/meat-and-three-north-carolina-alabama-georgia?source=Snapzu

The Wintry Elegance of Hasui Kawase’s Woodblock Prints

Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) was a prominent landscape artist in 20th century Japan who travelled extensively throughout the Western regions of the country. Known for his poetic renderings of snow, rains and moonlight, he created elegant prints of Kyoto temples covered in snow, as well as dark and quiet landscapes.
Read more: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2016/12/23/the-wintry-elegance-of-hasui-kawases-woodblock-prints/?source=Snapzu

What's It Like To Be Rich? Ask The People Who Manage Billionaires' Money

Several years ago, sociologist Brooke Harrington decided to explore the secret lives of billionaires. What she found, she said, shocked her.
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U.S. inequality keeps getting uglier

The gap between the "haves" and "have nots" is widening, according to the latest data out this week. The rich are money-making machines. Today, the top mega wealthy -- the top 1% -- earn an average of $1.3 million a year. It's more than three times as much as the 1980s, when the rich "only" made $428,000, on average, according to economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/22/news/economy/us-inequality-worse/?source=Snapzu

Before photoshop, there was the disturbing art of spirit photography.

Ever since technology has allowed people to capture pictures, photographers have been using photo-editing techniques to trick people. One of the most fascinating early examples is spirit photography. Customers believed that the spirits of lost loved ones were communicating with them through these photographs. The first spirit photographer was William Mumler, who discovered a double exposure technique in the 1860s that made ghostlike figures appear in photographs. He would take pictures of people and then alter the negatives using other pictures to make “spirits” appear with the living subjects.
Read more: http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/12/21/before-photoshop-there-was-the-disturbing-art-of-spirit-photography/?source=Snapzu