Today, blimps are mostly just PR gimmicks, but for 100 years, lighter-than-air crafts were seriously considered as the perfect design solution for all kinds of problems, at least in theory. In these visions, cargo and passengers traverse the globe in smoothly gliding aircraft, then dock elegantly at the mooring towers on top of Art Deco skyscrapers. ![]() For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public imagination, playing a recurring role in our dreams of alternate realities and futures that might have been. They are hulking, but graceful - human-made whales that float in the air. This episode is a collaboration with The Stoop, a podcast hosted by Leila Day and Hana Baba, which features stories from across the black diaspora. Not everyone thinks the categories are helpful, and some of the criticism has its roots far back in American history. But the chart has gone way beyond his own hair care line and become a way some African-American people talk and think about hair. People could use it to identify their hair type and then buy a complementary product. The chart spans straight, wavy, curly, and kinky hair.įor Walker, the chart was all about selling his products. The system categorizes natural hair types, and it's often referred to simply as "the hair chart." The chart identifies four hair types and within each of those categories there are different sub-types. Last month, Benjamen Walker of Theory of Everything walked 99% Invisible Host Roman Mars around New York city, pointing out real and fake Emeco chairs.Īndre Walker became famous for being Oprah Winfrey’s hair stylist, but he is also known for something else: a system that he created back in the 1990s to market his line of hair care products. Over the decades the Emeco Navy chair became so popular that companies began to copy it. It bounced, but didn't bend or break.Īnd so the Navy gave its inventor the contract, and he, in turn, opened a factory and called new his business the Electrical Machine and Equipment Company, or: Emeco. To show off the durability of his creation, Dinges took it up to the eighth floor of a hotel in Chicago, where the Navy was examining submissions, and threw it out of the window. Dinges designed a chair made out of aluminum, bent and welded to be super strong. They needed a chair that was fireproof, waterproof, lightweight and strong enough to survive a torpedo blast. ![]() war effort ramped up in the early 1940s, the Navy put out a request for chair design submissions. Well, today we bring you a story from Longreads and Oregon Public Broadcasting reported by Leah Sottile- it's the first in series they put together that looks deeply into the fascinating and even sometimes wonky details of how the american west is managed, why the Bundys are so angry about it, and the religious ideology that undergirds their fight against the federal government.īundyville The Bundyville series on LongreadsĪs the U.S. Perhaps you heard about it but never understood exactly what it was all about. They were led by a cattle rancher by the name of Ammon Bundy - the son of Cliven Bundy. In 2016, a group of armed militants occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in western Oregon. Should we allow ranchers to graze cattle, or should the western land be a place where wild animals can roam free and be protected, or is it land we want to reserve for recreation? As you can imagine, there is no consensus on the answers to these questions but there are a LOT of strong feelings, and over the years, those strong feelings have sometimes bubbled up to the surface and manifested in protests and even violence. ![]() ![]() And there have always been questions about how this immense swath of land should be used. About 85 percent of Nevada, 61 percent of Alaska, 53 percent of Oregon, the list goes on. Most of the American west is owned by the Federal Government.
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