For sheer drama and resonance, few tech breakthroughs can match the invention of the neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet in the early 1980s. It’s one of the great stories of corporate intrigue: General Motors in the US and Sumitomo in Japan independently con... More »
You bought too many eggplants. Or, you have an extra one that you have no idea what to do with. Or, your family always makes the same dish and you want to switch it up. That’s where these 35 recipes come in handy. From yogurt-y dips (hello, Saturday picnic) to... More »
Engineers designing communications products need access to information—the latest research, lists of parts and components, and technical standards to help ensure that their design will work seamlessly with others. But tracking down resources across multiple we... More »
In the township of Hume in rural eastern Michigan, an unassuming barn stands sentry in a wide-open field, partially covered in wild vines and grasses. Like many Midwestern farm structures, it’s weathered and has seen years of use and repairs, but one recent al... More »
I used to enjoy dressing up for him as part of our sexual repertoire. Suddenly, after eight years, there’s no chance of intimacy without itI am a 50-year-old woman and deeply in love with my partner, who is 65. We have been together for around eight years. Whe... More »
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Japanese artist Tomohiro Suzuki is behind the minimal wooden menagerie of Kyoto-based workshop Kokemusu Mokkou. From hunks of walnut, Suzuki carves miniature sculptures of wildlife like antelope, elephants, and bears, with innumerable divots and gouges forming... More »
From rival spotted redshanks to combatting spoonbills, quite a few finalists from the 2022 Bird Photographer of the Year contest center on avians as they fight for territory, food, and mates. The seventh-annual competition garnered more than 20,000 entries fro... More »
Look under the hood of a car and you’ll see an efficient modular design with each component performing specific actions: The fuel injectors squirt fuel into the cylinders (or intake manifold); the coil packs send high-voltage pulses to the spark plugs, the cat... More »
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Far Too Much Backbone... More »
If your family is anything like ours, then you'll be fighting over the last spoonful of this rich, gooey chocolate pudding cake. More »
We tax cigarettes and sodas because they’re bad for you. We should tax companies that put carcinogens in the environmentAmericans don’t agree on much of anything lately. Except taxes – who doesn’t hate taxes? And also cancer: everyone hates cancer.Maybe hati... More »