View photos In this Aug. 7, 2017 photo a girl holds a handful of wild blueberries picked near Sherman, Maine. The state’s blueberry crop is way down this year due to weather and a scale back of farming. Maine is one of the biggest blueberry producers in the country, and […]
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Every year, for the past 26 years, something truly remarkable happens: an entire city appears out of the desert. I’m speaking, of course, of Black Rock City, in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, erected for the quasi-ritualistic celebration of art, radical inclusion, and free-to-be-you-and-me-ness known as Burning Man. Burners will come […]
In 2006, a hunter shot what he thought was a polar bear in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Closer examination, however, revealed brown patches on its white fur, uncharacteristically long claws and a slightly hunched back. The creature was in fact a hybrid, its mother a polar bear, its father […]
That’s one way to settle an argumentMuseum of London By Joshua Rapp Learn And you thought Game of Thrones was rough. Lower-class young men in medieval London were subjected to extreme levels of violence, far worse than other parts of medieval England. “It appears that violence in medieval London may […]
At 6’5″, Aaron Dennis towers over the whiteboard beside him. Blue marker in hand, the 22-year-old hunches slightly to jot down suggestions being shouted by a group of people deep into a brainstorming session. Dressed mostly in nerdy T-shirts (one reads Science! with a test tube in place of the […]
Researchers analysing data of eruptions over hundreds of years found that many of the UK’s most extreme summers and devastating winters were not random events but triggered by volcanic blasts. Scientists from Liverpool University also warned that supervolcanoes could be among the greatest threats to Britain’s climate — even if […]
In the weeks leading up to the Charlottesville, Virginia white nationalist march that left one counterprotestor dead, organizers discussed inserting screws into flagpoles to be used as potential weapons and concealing firearms in the case of a “gunfight,” according to chatroom logs. In the days after the march, participants in […]
View photos In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo, conservationists of Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) prepare a makeshift stretcher to carry a tranquilized male orangutan to be relocated from a swath of destructed forest located too close too a palm oil plantation at Tripa peat swamp in Aceh province, […]