Dylan Thuras @dylanthuras
Founder of Atlas Obscura. Father of two maniacs. Up for adventures, but with an earlier bedtime than previously... atlasobscura.com Rosendale, NY Joined August 2010-
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Lots of travel coming up lately! All events are on my website. First up: @atlasobscura Ecliptic Festival in Hot Springs, AR, for totality!! Get tickets, it’s going to be huge and there are v cool bands coming too 🌞🤝🌚 ecliptic.atlasobscura.com
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Just realized the last speaker of all languages will be LLMs. There will be a museum of dead languages where AI’s carry on endless conversations in languages no one alive can still speak.
Sex is good but have you ever gone to a conference and realized your top 5 competitors are all on a the brink of failure for numerous reasons and all of their customers are in your booth curious on if you can replace them
We’re excited to collaborate with our friends at the podcast Freakonomics Radio to discuss marriage and the concept of parenting as it’s evolved. Listen now: bit.ly/3PN9crG
On Saturday, join #allamericanruins, HUDSY, and Atlas Obscura at the Hudson House & Distillery in West Park, NY to celebrate the season 2 launch of @PodcastFellows alum Blake Pfeil’s abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast with All-American Ruins: Live. allamericanruins.com
The Atlas Obscura Podcast is now in 2nd place @signalawards Listener’s Choice #signalawards. RT + VOTE: vote.signalaward.com/publicvoting#/…
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Just announced! The full line-up for Through the Looking Glass is here, featuring headliner SPELLLING, Sun Ra Arkestra, Laraaji, and more! Check the lineup below, and grab your tix before it’s too late! bit.ly/3KMoCK3
Thank you @atlasobscura Podcast for sharing the story of the Bone Records, a collection of X-rays that bootleggers used to record banned Western music. Hear more about the bone records and the unique partnership between Forté and the @SongbookFdn at bit.ly/3ODh52j.
Join us September 16 for an immersive after-hours festival with SPELLLING, where you’ll get to explore a historic 10-acre amusement park that’s said to have inspired Walt Disney himself. atlasobscura.com/experiences/th…
Do you like @atlasobscura? Do you like eel history? Do you ever wish that those two things could come together? Well...I recently had a great conversation with @covfefebb about medieval eel-rents, and you can read about it here! atlasobscura.com/articles/medie…
Perfect Gift! Flamethrowers, poison gases, unquenchable incendiary bombs, spreading of disease Terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. Riveting history of the ancient origins of unconventional weapons & tactics amazon.com/Greek-Poison-A…
A DIY copter made in Yemen from sticks and a simple motor. Talk about drone proliferation - this is about as simple as it gets. t.me/droneswar/4521
Jessica has loved sewers as long as I’ve known her! Get this book!
Jessica has loved sewers as long as I’ve known her! Get this book!
I finally had a chance to watch @Ehmee's latest, and it's delightful and funny as always. Emily has such a skill for summarizing big topics into soundbites that give you a new perspective on things. youtu.be/dWOk4vMV4SY
I asked @nbashaw AI writing tool Lex (GPT-3) to "Write a haiku about butts"... Round and firm These buttocks I do laud For they are quite nice I'm afraid. But also, I agree.
It’s been the most incredible week. I am so proud of our team for pulling off the best ever #BrandUSATravelWeek yet! Thank you to our destination partners as well as our U.K. and European travel trade and media friends for celebrating the wealth of stories across the #USA with us
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I have just had a great chat with @dylanthuras from @atlasobscura talking about everything that encompasses, including podcasts, books, the online atlas, and so much more. It was great to hear about his experiences of searching out all the wonder in the world. Thank you, Dylan.
@RickSteves @dylanthuras Listening to Dylan Thuras interview Rick Steves about his life and travels. I admit that I'm envious of their travels. But an early spring night in West Virginia isn't too shabby.
@EmmaTolkin European Vacation...what's makes additionally awesome is that it was painted by Boris Vallejo
Lots of travel coming up lately! All events are on my website. First up: @atlasobscura Ecliptic Festival in Hot Springs, AR, for totality!! Get tickets, it’s going to be huge and there are v cool bands coming too 🌞🤝🌚 ecliptic.atlasobscura.com
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In 1972, while on vacation, Stefano Mariottini, an engineer from Rome, snorkeling off the coast of Monasterace near Riace, noticed a human hand sticking out of the sand. Deciding that it was a corpse, he called the police. From the bottom of the Ionian Sea, two statues of…
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Most people go to the Library of Congress to see the books and artifacts in the world’s largest library. But did you know that it also contains a collection of famous people's hair? @dylanthuras pays it a visit on @atlasobscura. share.harkaudio.com/jCc1CM2PLifk8g…
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