John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities.
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Photos
Sugar-Based Graffiti That Confronts the Legacy of Slavery
These cake-frosting murals may look sweet, but their message is bitter. Also, beware of wasps!
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Photos
Hurricane Sandy Likely Caused Alabama's Incredible Light Show
Every kind of solar-light phenomena there is seemed to occur all at once over Huntsville.
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This London Traffic Light Has 75 Signals
Stop? Go? Don't walk? Gaaaaah!
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Sandy Was So Big At One Point She Stretched From Chicago to New England
A satellite capture from Tuesday showed the true scale of the massive weather system.
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Toilet Tuesday
This Could Be the World's Most Awkward Bathroom
Pop a squat for this week's uncomfortable edition of Toilet Tuesday.
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Videos
Hurricane Sandy: The Idiot Awards
The worst of this prolonged wind-whipping from Sandy is hopefully behind us, so it's time to start choosing candidates for 2012's Biggest Hurricane Idiot.
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Maps
Superstorm Sandy Seen In a Beautiful Map of Pure Wind
Follow Sandy's track across the East Coast with this mesmerizing, real-time map of wind speeds. (Yes, that's the eye below Philadelphia.)
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Hurricane Sandy Is a Category 1 Cyclone, But It Has the Eyewall Of a Category 3
Shiver in fear of this 3-D model of Sandy's eye as the storm nears New Jersey.
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It's Not Just the East Coast: Chicago Could See Waves as High as 23 Feet
Hurricane Sandy's impact won't spare the Midwest.
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Hurricane Sandy's Track: 10 Million People Could Lose Power
And that's the "conservative estimate," according to a Johns Hopkins engineer.
