Plus, S.F. live animal market violations; marking anniversaries of Partition and the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan
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Over the past few years, form has followed function for face masks—the stronger the better to fight a crippling pandemic. But centuries before N-95s, black velvet and more exotic materials shielded upper-class faces from prying eyes and opened the doors to baroque social rituals.
And yes, face masks had their critics, even then. Self-appointed moralists called the masks scandalous, saying wearers lived “in all kinds of voluptuousness and pleasure.” Nat Geo History looks at Europe’s mask subculture of the 1500s—and safety-minded people today might chuckle while they hook the strings of their plain white masks around their ears.
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 | | COURTESY OF RAHUL MISHRA | | | Pictured at top, masked women depicted in a pilgrimage in a 1601 painting; above, “Butterfly People,” by Indian designer Rahul Mishra, is among a virtual exhibition of more than 100 contemporary face masks from around the world, Nat Geo reports. | | | |
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 | | This new legislation is expected to speed the transition to clean technology so much that non-polluting energy—solar, wind, nuclear power, geothermal energy, hydropower—could supply up to 81 percent of the country’s electricity by the end of this decade. | | | | Craig Welch | National Geographic reporter
From: How the historic climate bill will transform the U.S. energy landscape | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY SAUMYA KHANDELWAL | | An enduring divide: When a fence went up after 1947’s sudden demarcation of India and Pakistan, many border towns were cut off. In these aging hamlets, roads are still unpaved, and there are no high schools nor hospitals. “We are the forgotten people,” says 70-year-old farmer Jodh Singh, from Mammi Chak Ranga village (pictured above). He spoke with Nat Geo ahead of today’s 75th anniversary of Partition, the separation of India and Pakistan.
Related: Map shows how India was split
Hear a survivor talk about Partition’s toll
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | With the reindeer herders: The Nenets, from Russia’s Arctic, migrate 800 miles a year with their antlered herds. That’s gotten harder, with climate change and a giant natural gas field. In recent years, one herder told Nat Geo, “our reindeer were too weak for the long journey.” Nat Geo Explorer Evgenia Arbugaeva, herself a native of Russia’s North, took this image of a family at play on the Yamal Peninsula. It was recently featured in our Photo of the Day archival collection.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ELIZABETH CECIL, THE NEW YORK TIMES VIA REDUX | | The power behind a shower: Science has an explanation why you may get some of your best ideas while taking a shower—and has tips on how to ignite creativity elsewhere during the day (like while walking the dog). One cognitive neurologist tells Nat Geo that, in a shower, “ideas bounce around, and different thoughts can collide and connect.”
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| Today's newsletter was curated and edited by David Beard, Jen Tse, Heather Kim, Allie Yang, and Anne Kim-Dannibale. Do you get better ideas in the shower or while walking the dog? Let us know at david.beard@natgeo.com. Happy trails! | | | |
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