Published1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Andrew RogersBBC NewsbeatWorld of Warcraft is celebrating its 20th birthday this year, but it's just cancelled its biggest party. Fans of the online game have gathe... More »
A cicada in sync with its brood is a cicada with a chance.The insects’ synchronized emergence is an evolutionary strategy, scientists say. Birds, raccoons and other predators can eat only so many of them. So the more cicadas emerge together, the better the odd... More »
Martin Freeman isn’t apologizing for the huge age gap between himself and onscreen love interest Jenna Ortega … even though the internet collectively found it pretty gross. Martin and Jenna’s recent flick, “Miller’s Girl,” faced backlash after it was revealed ... More »
Published1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Global China UnitBBC NewsEarlier this year, Ai Qing was woken up in the middle of the night by angry chants outside her dormitory in northern Argentina. She peered o... More »
More than 30 years ago, the economists Rudiger Dornbusch (one of my mentors) and Sebastian Edwards wrote a classic paper on what they called “macroeconomic populism.” Their motivating examples were inflationary outbreaks under left-wing regimes in Latin Americ... More »
Haley Pullos got thrown into jail this week over her DUI case — and from the way she looked going into court … it’s almost as if she knew what was coming. The “General Hospital” star was photographed walking into court Monday — and she definitely didn’t look t... More »
All About Parsley As a kid, I was allergic to parsley. At least, that's what I told my mother. I'm unsure if I was allergic or just made that up. Today, I'm a huge fan and enjoy it as a seasoning or garnish on many of my meals. Parsley, with its vibrant green ... More »
In recent years, H5N1 bird flu has become widespread among wild birds around the world and has spread to mammals like seals and squirrels. It can be fatal and has resulted in the deaths or cullings of tens of millions of chickens in the United States alone. Th... More »
/ The United Nations created a panel to oversee critical minerals mining, but it’s still limited in what it can do.Trucks haul away ore from a pit in one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on J... More »
Economists are divided over whether the growing amount of federal borrowing is fueling demand and driving up prices.A crucial question is hanging over the American economy and the fall presidential election: Why are consumer prices still growing uncomfortably ... More »
Earlier today I set you this puzzle, about the tiling of a 4x4 grid. It requires a swift preamble, so here we go again.Consider the image below, which highlights adjacent rows in the grid.View image in fullscreenFor each cell in a top row, there are two choice... More »
In “Message in a Bottle,” a dance show opening at City Center, Sting’s songbook helps tell the story of a family fleeing conflict.When the choreographer Kate Prince set out several years ago to create a dance show based on the music of Sting, she was unsure wh... More »