Credits

This site is made of other people’s work. Here is whose.

Photographs

Several of these have been cropped and colour-graded for the page. Where a licence requires it, the change is noted and the same terms are passed on.

The moon — Buzz Aldrin carrying the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package to its deployment site, 20 July 1969. Photographed by Neil Armstrong on a 70mm lunar surface camera. NASA, frame AS11-40-5942. Public domain. Cropped and colour-graded.

The human genome in print — Ben Gilbert for Wellcome Collection, licensed CC BY 4.0. Cropped and colour-graded.

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko — photographed by Rosetta’s NAVCAM on 20 November 2014. ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and colour-graded; this version is published under the same CC BY-SA 2.0 licence.

The first image of a black hole — the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, licensed CC BY 4.0. Colour-graded.

Smallpox vaccine — a vial of freeze-dried Dryvax vaccine with diluent and a bifurcated needle. Photographed in 2002 by James Gathany for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Image Library ID 2674. Public domain. Cropped and colour-graded.

The driverless vehicle — Victor Svistunov on Unsplash.

The newspaper — Elias Derksen on Unsplash.

The bedroom — Jakob Owens on Unsplash.

Stories

Every story in the archive belongs to the person who lived it and wrote it down. We link to each account and never reproduce it unless authorized.

Contributors choose whether to be named.

Everything else

The writing, the design, the census and the code belong to the recruitment still sucks community — the people who send in what happened to them, argue with the manifesto, and fill in the census every year. It is their evidence. We just keep it somewhere findable.