Soon after a huge container ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing it down, President Biden pledged that the federal government would “pay the entire cost of reconstructing” the bridge. This would clearly be the right thing to do, not just ... More »
Dairy cowsShutterstock / Yuangeng Zhang A person in the US has contracted bird flu from infected dairy cows in Texas. This is the first confirmed case of a subtype of the virus, named H5N1, transmitting between a human and another mammal. The US Centers for Di... More »
Arnel Management Co. has agreed to settle allegations it illegally withheld security deposits, the California attorney general announced Friday. The move came nearly eight years after a Times story detailed reports from tenants who alleged that the major Orang... More »
Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly’s evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris.The choreographer Benjamin Millepied is a protean figure. The founder of the L.A. Dance Project, he has been a p... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGThe United States sold more liquefied natural gas on the global market than any other country in 2023, surpassing yet another milestone in the nation’s transformation into a fossil fuel superpower.Drillers across the U.S. broke records for ... More »
The Republican outrage machine kicked into gear over Easter weekend after President Biden noted that Sunday was being celebrated for more than one reason.International Transgender Day of Visibility is observed every year on March 31. Easter is observed on the ... More »
On clear evenings in Madrid, Alfredo Paniagua sets up his 180-pound telescope in the center of the city. Curious passersby soon begin to line up to peek through the lens.It’s a nightly ritual Mr. Paniagua has performed for two decades. He often stays past midn... More »
Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and greed turned it into ‘a fucking clown show.’By Elizabeth Lopatto, a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as s... More »
The distinction between independent and dependent variables is essential for designing and conducting research studies and experiments effectively. By manipulating the independent variable and measuring its impact on the dependent v... More »
Earlier today I set you the following mini-pub quiz, based on wordplay puzzles from The Cryptic Pub Quiz Book by Frank Paul. Here they are again with answers.Round 1: SynonymsChange one letter of each word to make pairs of synonyms. Thus “paid and dug” could b... More »
Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 ye... More »
LOADINGERROR LOADINGNEW YORK (AP) — The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend.In a Saturday announcement addressing the da... More »