When the Nautilus exploration vessel’s research team went probing around Channel Islands National Park a couple weeks ago, they didn’t expect to find a glowing, violet blob resting inconspicuously on the sea floor like a misplaced alien egg. Just an hour outside of Los Angeles, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to the Channel Islands…
I can remember watching Michael Jordan’s last game as a member of the Chicago Bulls. Although I was only two weeks shy of my 11th birthday, Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals felt like the biggest moment of my young life. Every Bulls possession felt personal. When Jordan crossed up—and maybe, slightly pushed—Bryon Russell…
In many ways, it was a typical Mike Piazza home run. The power-hitting catcher caught up with a fastball on the outer half of the plate and launched a mammoth blast into the New York night. The crowd erupted. This partly was because the home run gave the Mets a 3-2 lead in their eventual…
As Peru’s culinary star continues to rise and its capital, Lima, emerges as a world-class food-lover’s destination, many Peruvians still struggle with food shortages and malnutrition. Peruvian Chef Palmiro Ocampo is using his considerable talent to try to close the gap between haute cuisine and the thousands of Peruvians who don’t have enough to eat….
What’s a Lepo? No, this isn’t the beginning of some weeks old Gary Johnson joke. It turns out a ton of Americans are even less up-to-speed on the Syrian civil war than the oft-ridiculed Libertarian presidential candidate. That’s because according to the dictionary divas at Merriam-Webster, “lepo” was the most searched for word on their…
If you’ve ever wondered what the Olympic medal for cooking is called, it’s known as a Michelin star. Instead of bronze, silver, and gold medals, it consists of one, two, or three playful looking red asterisks that resemble appliqués on a child’s hair clip more than symbols of culinary excellence. Doled out in plaques to…
Amariyanna Copeny has gotten a lot of attention lately for two pictures that perfectly exemplify every left-leaning citizen’s feelings about this election season. As Little Miss Flint, Copeny had the chance to meet both Barack Obama and Donald Trump when they came on separate occasions to speak on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. After…
If you’re looking for an edifying and sobering way to disappear into a big data set, The Guardian has you covered. Its interactive database of people killed by police in the United States covers this year and last with information you can filter according to variables like state, race or ethnicity, and whether or not…
It’d be a good time to relearn how to do the dishes because France just became the first country in the world to ban all plastic plates, cups, and silverware. Passed in August, the bill won’t officially take effect until 2020, the Associated Press reports, giving business owners plenty of time to adapt their methods….
Food might be the best part of our daily routine, but it can also be a tedious chore; we want to savor each bite, but worry how it impacts our health, the environment, and the people who produce it. So we obsessively count calories, check labels, and research health claims. And though we’ve come to…