Looks like there’s more than just the unreleased collab Mark Ronson and Kevin Parker played during their joint DJ set at Govenor’s Ball this year.

Walking through Huánuco Pampa, an old Inca settlement in the mountains of Peru, is like stepping back in time. Though it was abandoned long ago, the city is remarkably well preserved.

Huánuco Pampa (aka Huánuco Viejo and Huánuco Marka) was built along the main Inca highway that stretched nearly 25,000 miles from Quito to Cusco. It was an administrative center built on a plateau conveniently defended by the steep slopes demarcating its perimeter. 

In addition to its administrative functions, Huánuco Pampa was also an important place to store foodstuffs. Its nearly 500 storehouses and numerous food processing centers showcase the massive planning and organizational skills the Incas needed to sustain a their sprawling empire.

Apart from the strategic, mountainous location, this site was probably quite unremarkable. Its lack of grandeur may have been its saving grace. The conquistadores by-and-large neglected Huánuco Pampa, which helped it to survive and become the prime archaeological site it is today.

Dating Huánuco Pampa is no straightforward feat. It’s believed it was constructed after 1460 and then abandoned around 1539, when the conquistadores arrived in the region. Its construction was motivated less by the need to control natural resources than by bureaucratic motives.

Today, on a stroll through Huánuco Pampa you’ll come across the remains of the baths and main palace. You’ll also see the enormous plaza where the Incas built a pyramid, which, from the top, is where dignitaries would oversee festivals and celebrations. Despite centuries of neglect and harsh weather, the finely cut and accurately set stones still showcase the refined and rare craftsmanship of the Inca.

cryptocurrency mining is growing more and more popular, but, as they do, the risk of malicious actors grows as well. One Russian developer has turned his Android games into mining software, but says there’s nothing wrong with that.

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Classic cocktail enthusiasts might want to look away. This is my take on the Dark n’ Stormy cocktail from the Bermuda (which is a trademarked mix of Gosling’s rum, and spicy ginger beer). I like a Dark n’ Stormy – they’re invigorating, easy drinking, simple to make, and equally tasty on a beach or in an urban bar. I like them in summer, and I like them right now. Some while back I stopped using ginger beer, and switched to kombucha. And not just any kombucha, I now make them with the spiciest ginger kombucha I can find, bonus points if I can find the ginger-cayenne variety. So incredibly tasty. To make the drink, you take a splash of dark, flavorful rum, and top it off with kombucha (or ginger beer if you want to play it straight). At any rate, I thought it’d be a great Halloween cocktail for you to try – because, well, the name. But also, because it’s a cocktail everyone loves!

I’ll throw one optional wildcard in here, only because we have a prolific makrut lime tree. You can infuse the rum with a couple of lime leaves (for five minutes or so), and it perfumes the rum subtly. A lot of bartenders serve Dark n’ Stormy cocktails with a brightening splash of fresh lime juice. This add another layer. So, infuse the rum and then proceed with the recipe.

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Japanese wonder – Tokujin Yoshioka is famous for sculpting glass like magic. However, it’s worth noticing how he…

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Its fall and collegians from coast to cost are rushing fraternities and sororities hoping to make friends and social connections that will hopefully last their entire lives.

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This past April a massive 80-foot steel kraken was purposefully sunk into the Caribbean Sea on top of a decorated WW2 ship. The former Navy fuel barge and its monstrous passenger were placed underwater in order to jumpstart a new coral ecosystem, while also serving as a cutting-edge education center for marine researchers and local students from the surrounding British Virgin Islands. The project is titled the BVI Art Reef, and aims to use sculptures like the porous kraken as a base to grow transplanted coral. More

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Beth Cavener (previously here and here) creates large animals that each appear to wrestle against their implied captivity. The works can be viewed as animals in the throes of domestication, however beneath the surface lies a peek into our own human psychology. Cavener projects these emotions onto her sculpted clay figures, showcasing the primitive animal instincts that lie beneath our own exteriors.
“Both human and animal interactions show patterns of intricate, subliminal gestures that betray intent and motivation,” said Cavener in an artist statement. More