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Shane, The Classic Western, Goes Woke
I was looking forward to the Guthrie Theater’s last performance of the season, a theatrical adaption of the novel Shane. I read and studied Jack Schaefer’s...
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Dennis Prager: The Quintessential American Holiday
Thanksgiving is not a Christian holiday. It's not a Jewish holiday. It's the quintessential American holiday where people of every race, creed, color, and…
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Russia Is Arming MiG-31 Fighters with R-37M Hypersonic Missiles for War in Ukraine
The MiG-31 might be an old fighter of the Cold War. But now armed with long-range R-37M missiles, Ukraine is being tested by this old jet.
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Queen Elizabeth II: A life in Land Rovers - BBC News
The iconic cars were "part of the royal family's DNA" according to motoring journalist Quentin Willson.
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Watch What Happens Inside a Transparent Jet Engine While It Runs
"I was surprised this whole thing worked," the jet engine's creator said.
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Just 50 People Live on Pitcairn Island, One of the Remotest Places on Earth
In a tale so crazy it's true, remote Pitcairn Island is home to just 50 people, descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, who hid there more than 200 years ago.
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A Russia-Ukraine War: A Missile and Artillery Battle Like No Other?
Does Ukraine Have Stand-off Strike Capabilities to Counter Russia’s Missiles and Artillery?: There is a significant possibility that the buildup of Russian forces around Ukraine may herald a new invasion in the coming days and weeks. One especially notabl
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44 Facts about the Concorde You Might Not Know
The Concorde was a marvel of British and French engineering. The closest comparison to this commercial airplane today would be the modern aerospace companies that are preparing for a commercial flight to Mars. At the
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How Crime Scene Analysts Collect and Preserve Fingerprints | WIRED
A veteran analyst explains the work of gathering fingerprints that can link a suspect to a crime—even after it rains.
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Life in Alaska in the Round-the-Clock Darkness of Polar Night | The New Yorker
Coralie Kraft writes on the photo series “Polar Night,” by the photographer Mark Mahaney, which chronicles a two-month winter period of uninterrupted darkness in Utqiagvik, Alaska.
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The 18 Best City Parks in America
From well-known emerald gems like LA’s Griffith Park in Los Angeles, to underrated spots like Forest Park in St. Louis or Falls Park in...
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This video series teaches you all the Photoshop basics for free
Popular YouTube channel TastyTuts has put together this 33-video Beginner's Guide to Adobe Photoshop—a godsend for anybody who wants to learn Photoshop from scratch.
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What Makes a Genius?
Some minds are so exceptional they change the world. We don’t know exactly why these people soar above the rest of us, but science offers us clues.
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The Weird Ways Americans Try to Make the Wilderness Comfy | WIRED
To be able to unplug and enjoy nature, you need outhouses and food trucks.
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How a Ragtag Gang of Retirees Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in British History
The police and public gasped at the audacity of the Great Hatton Garden heist of 2015, where millions in cash and jewels were taken from an underground vault in London’s diamond district. Mark Seal investigates the unorthodox daring of the perpetrators�
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A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets
It's a simple bot that helps with court appeals — but could it replace the need for human lawyers?
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6 Things Great Leaders Do Differently - Forbes
Too many people succumb to the mistaken belief that leadership skills are natural traits that belong only to a lucky few. Great leadership is a matter of choice, and you can improve your leadership skills today.
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Inside NASA’s Plan To Radically Redesign How We Fly
A new wave of aircraft design is emergingand NASA is helping.
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7 countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free) - The Washington Post
Finland will finance your free education, but not your coffee break.
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BBC News - 100 things we didn't know last year
Interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from daily news stories and the Magazine picks out such snippets for its weekly feature, 10 things we didn't know last week. Here's an almanac of the best of 2014.
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Holiday Gift Guide:
The Outdoor Enthusiast
Awesome gift ideas for outdoorsy folk. You know who they are! We hope this awesome gift guide gives you some good ideas!
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New Clock May End Time As We Know It : NPR
Scientists working to create the perfect atomic clock have a fundamental problem: Right now, on the ceiling, time is passing just a bit faster than it is on the floor.
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Nik Wallenda says Chicago wind kept him from dawdling on wire walk - Chicago Tribune
Nik Wallenda successfully completed his controversial Chicago skywalk Sunday, breaking two world records and defying critics who claimed the stunt was too dangerous to perform without a harness.
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UNC students likely will keep degrees despite fraud - CNN.com
The accrediting group that covers UNC can't take away degrees due to academic fraud, its president says.
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A Guy Recorded His Phone Call When He Tried To Cancel Cable, And It's A Total Nightmare
Calling your cable provider is always a headache, but this case is much worse than your average support phone call.
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Hurricane Arthur puts a damper on July 4 celebrations
Residents and vacationers in North Carolina’s outer banks are preparing for the storm.
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New sensors will scoop up 'big data' on Chicago
The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture, but researchers say they'll provide a big step forward in the way Chicago understands itself by observing the
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Pre-Game Fenway Park: 13 Spots in the New Kenmore Square
Despite being the site of major trolley and subway lines, Kenmore Square has never really been a destination. Unless you count the punk scene it attracted in the 1980s, or the methadone hub it became in the '90s....
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The Best Illusion of the Year Contest
The Best illusion of the Year Contest announced its winners this past weekend in a ceremony at St. Pete Beach, Florida. The winners are:1st prize The Dynamic EbbinghausChristopher Blair, Gideon Caplovitz, and Ryan Mruczek(University of Nevada Reno, USA, U
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O'Hare CTA station closed 'for the foreseeable future' because of crash
The CTA train that jumped the platform and scaled an escalator at O'Hare International Airport, injuring more than 30 people,
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11 Remarkable Ways Detroit Changed The World For The Better
This post is part of HuffPost's Good News USA series, which showcases both past and present ways cities across the country have created a positive impact worldwide and within their own communities. The 2013 version of Detroit may be bankrupt and b...
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Sochi plans mass killing of stray dogs ahead of Winter Olympics
A pest control company which has been killing stray dogs in Sochi for years told The Associated Press on Monday that it has a contract to exterminate more of the animals throughout the Olympics.
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Does Your Car Need a Privacy Policy? The AAA Says, Yes
Amid a Driver Privacy Act and more interest by the FTC in auto data tracking, AAA suggested best practices to protect driving data.
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Man crashes into gas station: steals banana.
Call it the case of the banana-eating bandit. Police in Connecticut say they're looking for a man who smashed his vehicle into a gas station in Newington, swiped a banana from a shelf and ate it before leaving early Wednesday morning. Nothing else w
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Why the Best Conspiracy Theories About JFK’s Assassination Are Bunk
Fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 59 percent of Americans still believe it was the work of a conspiracy. I was once among them. Back in the early 1970s, as a high school senior and college freshman, I read Mark Lane’s
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Newsweek: Los Angeles’s Endangered Modernist Homes
Los Angeles’s architectural gems are being endangered by a hot real estate market—and a decidedly Beverly Hills aesthetic.
