Effort to Rescue Endangered Turtles Becomes a Thanksgiving Odyssey
The rescue mission was supposed to be simple: fly 30 endangered turtles to their new home in New Orleans from Cape Cod, Mass.Instead, volunteers encountered...
Watch a Lunar Eclipse, or at Least Try To
This evening as you sneak some late-night Thanksgiving leftovers, take a moment to marvel at the full moon. Do you notice anything different? It’s subtle,...
Make a Poem From Newspaper
Imitation is the best kind of flattery. All creative people, whether they be writers, artists, dancers, singers or actors, know that. Think about the performers...
Making Bar Trivia Virtual
In the spring, just before lockdown hit North Carolina, Steve Bahnaman met some friends at a Cider Brewery, just outside Raleigh, for an evening of...
Ways to Get Your Kids Moving
As any parent overseeing homeschool knows: Zoom P.E. is hardly a hard-driving Peloton class. It’s more like your kid lying on the floor of the...
Listen to Indigenous Podcasts
The Indigenous people of the land now called North America are often only brought up in the past tense in primary school classrooms. The fact...
19th-Century Ship Is Revealed by Storm Erosion in Florida
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Not long after the Caroline Eddy set sail in 1880 from Florida with cargo bound for up the coast, a powerful...
British Doctor Claims Legal Ownership of Mars by Firing Lasers at It
A British doctor is claiming to do what Elon Musk has only dreamed about – and at a cost that the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire...
How Democrats Suffered Crushing Down-Ballot Losses Across America
WEXFORD, Pa. — Just a few seats shy of a majority in the State House of Representatives, Democrats in Pennsylvania this year zeroed in on...
McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses
When Purdue Pharma agreed last month to plead guilty to criminal charges involving OxyContin, the Justice Department noted the role an unidentified consulting company had...