Jellyfish 21 Trips of a Lifetimetravelchannel.com The saltwater in Iceland's Blue Lagoon, the world's largest geothermal pool, gets completely renewed every 40 hours and always hovers around 100 …
Airbus A320 How Airbus became Boeing's greatest rivalBusiness Insider - Benjamin ZhangAirbus versus Boeing is one of the great rivalries in business today. On par with the likes of Coke versus Pepsi or Ford versus GM. However, it wasn't always this way. Not that long ago, the world of aviation
Technology Talk to People on the TelephoneThe Atlantic - Amanda MullIn the past year, I’ve been on a mission to pester as many people in my life as possible. The first victim was my editor, whom I abruptly asked one morning to stop messaging me about story ideas on our
Japan Bizarre beauty: Shin Noguchi's everyday Japan – in picturesThe Guardian - Mee-Lai Stone From big-scramble zebra crossings to a man in a hedge, the award-winning street photographer revels in the life that swirls around him
Airbnb What’s it like to own the most-visited Airbnb in the worldVox - Luke WinkieInstead of an alabaster cave in Santorini, or a swank penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, or a Beverly Hills estate dripping with intrigue, the most visited Airbnb in the world is a squat cabin a
Renewable Energy Google Has Bought Enough Renewable Electricity to Power All of UruguayFortune - Eamon Barrett Google has just made the largest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history, or so says CEO Sundar Pichai, announcing in a blog post on the …
World News Germany's health minister visits Mexico in nurse recruitment driveEuronews - By Daniel Bellamy with ReutersGermany is so short of qualified nurses that its health minister has travelled as far as Mexico City in a recruitment drive. Nurses have already been recruited from Kosovo and the Philippines as Germany's
Science The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its CenterThe Atlantic - Marina KorenAstronomers have found radio-emitting structures jutting out from our galaxy’s black hole. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh was observing the center of the Milky Way galaxy in radio waves, looking for the presence faint
Museums The 5 museums in Greece that must be visited - A Luxury Travel Blogaluxurytravelblog.com While planning a trip to Greece, it is impossible not to stubble upon a number of museums and archaeological sites that will catch your eye and will …
World News Spain’s Attempt to Atone for a 500-Year-Old SinThe Atlantic - Kiku AdattoThe country is offering citizenship to Jews whose families it expelled in the 15th century. The clock is ticking down on one of the world’s most unusual immigration proposals—Spain’s offer of citizenship
Mexico City The ancient Aztec ballgame saving Mexicans from life of crime and drugsThe Telegraph - By Isabella Ruffatti and Our Foreign StaffIn a downtrodden neighbourhood in Mexico City, where an old rubbish dump once lay, troubled one-time gangsters are turning their lives around with the help of an obscure sport. Wearing traditional belts
Books The 100 best books of the 21st centuryThe GuardianPerhaps better known for her screenwriting (Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn), Ephron’s brand of smart theatrical humour is on best display in her essays. Confiding and self-deprecating, she a
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation These are Bill Gates' 13 favorite TED talks—and they'll make you feel smarter, wiser and more hopefulCNBC - Tom Popomaronis, Contributor TED Talks are one of the best online resources for anyone who loves learning. I try to dedicate some time every week to watching a few of them. But …
Carbon Carbon Engineering and Occidental will capture 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxideQuartz - Akshat RathiOne of the first companies planning to capture carbon dioxide from the air says it has enough demand from polluters to double its initial plans, a promising sign for the nascent technology. Stemming the
Oil The Saudi oil attacks could be a precursor to widespread cyberwarfare — with collateral damage for companies in the regionCNBC - Kate Fazzini A recent attack against Saudi Aramco damaged the world's largest oil producer and delayed oil production, roiling oil and gas markets. The Saudi …
Conspiracies Why do people believe the Earth is flat?boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow I have an op-ed in today's Globe and Mail, "Why do people believe the Earth is flat?" wherein I connect the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the …
The Arts Netflix’s ‘Abstract: The Art of Design’ Returns to Awe Us With the Inner Workings of Creative Mindsobserver.com - Helen Holmes When considering the concept of design, some of us stop at envisioning what something might look like: if you concentrated all your imaginative powers …
Archaeology Hitting the Books: Searching for ancient cities from spaceEngadget - Andrew TarantolaWelcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking
Opinion When Anti-Immigration Meant Keeping Out Black PioneersThe New York Times - By ANNA-LISA COXWilliam Brown managed to get across the river safely, finding work in a small rural Illinois community close to the state’s border with Indiana. He would have known of the new anti-immigration laws, but
Movies ‘Ad Astra’ Strives To Immerse Audience In Epic Interstellar ExperienceForbes - Tony BradleyAd Astra means simply “the stars” in Latin. The title of this epic space adventure, starring Brad Pitt, is derived from the Latin phrase “Per aspera ad astra”, or “Through hardship to the stars.” The is
Opinion The 19th-Century Troll Who Hated Dirty Postcards and Sex ToysThe New York Times - By ANNALEE NEWITZIn the 1870s, New York City was a haven for artists and radicals. But it was also the nursery for a new kind of moral activism. Led by Anthony Comstock, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
Forests For Sale: America’s Largest Private Grove of Giant SequoiasAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Giant sequoias are no strangers to history. The trees can last thousands of years, and at least one tree was already half a century old at the time …
Rio De Janeiro Police Are Killing with Impunity Inside Rio’s FavelasVICE - Ben FergusonRIO DE JANEIRO — Sheila Machado de Oliveira’s day began like any other. She planned to get her kids ready for school then head to work at the grocery stall in Maré, the favela where the mother of three
Archaeology Greek archaeologists uncover riches overlooked by robbersphys.org Archaeologists in northern Greece have explored more than 200 new graves in a vast ancient cemetery that was plundered in antiquity but still …
ArtHas Bansky Altered His Famed Painting of British Parliamentarians as Chimps? Either Way, It Could Fetch $2.5 Million at Nextartnet.com - Taylor Dafoe It's tempting to believe the artist may be planning another auction stunt. A painting by Banksy of bickering chimpanzees in British Parliament, …
Madonna Madonna at WarThe Atlantic - Spencer KornhaberHer 17-date Brooklyn residency forgoes many of the greatest hits and fleshes out her Madame X secret-agent character to spectacular effect. Madonna has banned cameras and phones from her performances the
Trains 8 most beautiful subway stations in the U.S.Curbed - Megan BarberIf you travel the world using public transit, there will likely come a time when a subway station will stop you in your tracks. In cities from Stockholm to Moscow, the practical subway station is often
Lifestyle Perspective | A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’The Washington Post - By Monica HesseNothing brings me more existential pain than hearing from former students of tyrannical English teachers, the ones who seem to think that knowing how to diagram a sentence is more important than learning
Antibiotics The simple words that save livesBBC Future - William ParkLessons from “expert talkers” could make all the difference when helping a person in crisis. In 1984, Dallas, Texas, a call to the emergency services went catastrophically wrong. An elderly woman had breathing,
United Kingdom The story behind “Billion Dollar Whale”The Economist IT IS A dry name for what may prove the heist of the century. The 1MDB affair, involving the alleged theft of $4.5bn from the Malaysian state …
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macroeMexico City The ancient Aztec ballgame saving Mexicans from life of crime and drugsThe Telegraph - By Isabella Ruffatti and Our Foreign Staff
macroeBill & Melinda Gates Foundation These are Bill Gates' 13 favorite TED talks—and they'll make you feel smarter, wiser and more hopefulCNBC - Tom Popomaronis, Contributor
macroeCarbon Carbon Engineering and Occidental will capture 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxideQuartz - Akshat Rathi
macroeOil The Saudi oil attacks could be a precursor to widespread cyberwarfare — with collateral damage for companies in the regionCNBC - Kate Fazzini
macroeArchaeology Hitting the Books: Searching for ancient cities from spaceEngadget - Andrew Tarantola
macroeThe Arts Netflix’s ‘Abstract: The Art of Design’ Returns to Awe Us With the Inner Workings of Creative Mindsobserver.com - Helen Holmes
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macroeMovies ‘Ad Astra’ Strives To Immerse Audience In Epic Interstellar ExperienceForbes - Tony Bradley
macroeForests For Sale: America’s Largest Private Grove of Giant SequoiasAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz
macroeLifestyle Perspective | A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’The Washington Post - By Monica Hesse
macroeBooks Lessons in Stoicism review – what ancient philosophers teach us about how to liveThe Guardian - John Sellars
macroeLifestyle (UK) My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it awayThe Guardian - Caroline Rothstein with illustrations by Hokyoung Kim for Narratively
macroeSailing Magellan was first to sail around the world, right? Think again.National Geographic - Erin Blakemore
