One afternoon not long ago, US artist Kyle Williams was leisurely looking through Google Street view for inspiration, when he came across a sight he’d never seen before: a girl with a leg coming out of her chest. He quickly took a screen shot and began looking for more.
The global sea level rose approximately 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) in the 20th century, a greater fluctuation than in any century since 800 BC, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
What would ancient artistic masterpieces look like if they were updated to reflect the modern imagination? Japanese artist Atsuki Segawa is tweaking traditional Japanese woodblock prints with 21st century tropes like flying saucers and bullet trains, and the results are mesmerizing. In two delightful collections of gifs, he reprises Ukiyo-e prints from the Edo-period (1615-1868) as sci-fi animations.
As it speeds through the ocean, the delicate limacina helicina looks more like a butterfly than a snail. And in fact, it does use the same “flying” motion as terrestrial insects, but according to mechanical engineer David Murphy, the 3mm-long sea snail likely developed the trick entirely separately, in a stunning example of convergent evolution.
Stories of pain, joy, and transformation have flooded the news in the past 12 months, and with them, a overload of images: scenes of tragedy in Paris, of citizens confronting police violence in the US, and of seemingly endless migration flows at Europe’s borders.
At the Feb. 11 Democratic debate, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wholeheartedly acknowledged that women’s rights are under attack in America, and promised to fight for these rights if they are elected into office. Clinton asserted that she would lead the charge, while Sanders pointed to his pro-choice voting record. Yet for all the commitment pledged by both candidates, the word “abortion” was not spoken once. Even Clinton, who brought up endorsements bestowed upon her by pro-choice groups Planned Parenthood and NARAL, could not get up the nerve to call what she referred to obliquely as “women’s healthcare” by its proper name: abortion.
Scientists estimate that at least 3,000 of the 6,900 languages currently spoken around the world will be lost by the end of this century.
In the face of tightening security measures and budget cuts, airlines have tried to maintain a sense of old-world glamour by requiring their employees to follow strict uniform requirements.
Beyoncé’s Midas touch sent Red Lobster’s sales skyrocketing on Super Bowl Sunday this year after she name-dropped the American seafood chain in a surprise single she released the afternoon before. The song, titled “Formation,” is an homage to the singer’s southern roots, and includes quotable lines such as “I got hot sauce in my bag” and “When he f— me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster, ’cause I slay.”
Electric cars and and commercial spaceflight are clearly not enough. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he’s mulling how to provide super-convenient, electric-powered air travel.
All-you-can-fly subscription service OneGo launched on Feb. 1, providing its members with unlimited service on 500 commercial routes around the US for a flat monthly rate of $2,950. Cheaper regional plans include 35 routes in the West, 158 routes in the East, and 35 routes in the central US starting at $1,500 monthly.
Boys who grow up in poverty in the US are less likely to be employed in adulthood than girls from equally disadvantaged backgrounds, according to new research from a team of Harvard and Stanford economists.
A woman’s face on the $10 dollar bill. A female commander-in-chief. The ability to point to an example when we say to young girls, “You can be president of the United States, too.” These are among the things almost all feminists want—voting Hillary Clinton into the White House in 2016, however, is not.
In the month since it became legal in Texas to visibly carry a handgun in public, over 3,000 businesses have posted signs banning the practice on their premises, according to Texas3006.com.
Amnesty International is calling for Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to be investigated for war crimes, for expelling and banishing Arab civilians from their homes.
Dr. Malcolm Potts has spent the past half-decade pioneering the field of family planning, and he’s on the verge of making birth control pills as easy to buy as aspirin.
If it’s good enough for Goya, it’s good enough for you.
Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett-Smith are boycotting this year’s Oscar ceremony, in protest of Academy’s failure to nominate any black actors. This is the second year in a row that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which selects Oscar winners and nominees, has ignored African-American artists.
Members of an anti-immigration group are patrolling public streets in Finland to look for security threats posed by immigrants. Dressed in black hoodies with Viking logos, the group members call themselves ”Soldiers of Odin.”
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits are world-famous, but there’s more to her story than what she chose to show. Now, rare images from the book Frida Kahlo: The Gisèle Freund Photographs capture the iconic painter unguarded, at the end of her short life.
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump may see all press as good press, but a new pro-Trump robocalling campaign with ties to a white supremacist group is putting that strategy to the test.
It’s not every day that the discovery of a headless corpse prompts a friendly land swap between two European nations. Yet that is precisely what has occurred between Belgium and the Netherlands.
The lack of accurate, real-time reporting of police killings in the US is causing what constitutes a public health issue, according to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
For the past 70 years, Korean women once forced to serve the Japanese army as sexual slaves during World War II have demanded justice from the Japanese government. Now Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has finally issued a formal apology, but South Korea’s so-called “comfort women” say that true justice remains out of reach.
