Photo by Bertram Nudelbach via Flicker (CC BY-SA 2.0) Article by Lorin Fries, via Forbes There’s a moment during my grocery shopping that I’ll call supermarket aisle paralysis. I hold two jars next to each other in the florescent light, scanning their minuscule print for clues. Or...
Graphic by Matt Withers/The Economist Article via Economist.com The first great surge of foreign interest in Africa, dubbed the “scramble”, was when 19th-century European colonists carved up the continent and seized Africans’ land. The second was during the cold war, when East and West vied for the allegiance of...
Photo by Axel Heimken (AFP Photo) Article viaYahoo! News Greta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl climate campaigner who has inspired worldwide protests, should be awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian lawmakers said Thursday. "We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change it will...
Photo by Gareth Cattermole (Getty Images for Disney) Article by Constance Grady and Alex Abad-Santos, via Vox After 11 years of Marvel moviemaking, Captain Marvel has made history simply by existing. The film, about a fighter pilot turned alien soldier turned cosmic superhero, is the first in Marvel Studios cinematic history...
Illustration by Rachel Suggs Article via Quanta Magazine No human, or team of humans, could possibly keep up with the avalanche of information produced by many of today’s physics and astronomy experiments. Some of them record terabytes of data every day — and the torrent is only increasing....
Photo by David Iliff (Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0) Article by Darlene Superville, via Associated Press President Donald Trump signed a wide-ranging public lands bill Tuesday that creates five new national monuments and expands several national parks. The new law also adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness and permanently...
Photo by Dana Jacobs Photo/Elena Strawn Article by Lauren Alvarez, via Forbes Capitol Music Group partnered with tech company Muzik to host an inspiring female-centric event in honor of International Women’s Day (3/8) on Wednesday, March 6. Hosted by CMG’s SVP, Global Creative Amber Grimes, the empowering...
Photo by Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Article by Michael Duarte, via NBC Los Angeles The man known for his skyhook might now be known for his philanthropy. Los Angeles Lakers' legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be walking around a lot lighter after he auctioned off four of his six...
Photo by Jeff Kravitz (FilmMagic) Article by Carly Mallenbaum, via USA Today Maroon 5 is joining in a donation to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America ahead of their Super Bowl halftime show. On Tuesday, "People" was first to report that the band, in conjunction with the NFL and Interscope...
Photo by Patrick Pleul (AP) Article by Erik Kirschbaum, via LA Times Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change,...