US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama announced yesterday (May 1) that their daughter Malia will attend Harvard University. That wasn’t particularly surprising: Many top universities wooed the famous teenager, and both her parents attended Harvard Law School.
Mirko Nahmijas has lived in Belgrade his whole life, but looking through the lens of his Canon 6D has helped him see the futuristic buildings looming over his city with new eyes.
Each winter, Shinto monks living in the mountains of central Japan wait for ice ridges to appear on the frozen surface of Lake Suwa. The ridges, known as omiwatari, are believed to be the footsteps of a male Shinto god crossing the lake to visit a female god who resides on the other side, and their date of appearance is used to predict the weather that will be brought by the spring.
“How did you sleep?” I’ve asked countless friends this question after they’ve spent a night on my (surprisingly comfortable) couch. Turns out, most of them probably lied when they said, “Great!”
This is no ordinary metal. Created by melting aluminum around hollow metal spheres, composite metal foam is 70% lighter than sheet metal and can absorb 80 times more energy than steel. It is fireproof, radiation-resistant, and even bulletproof.
Imagine going to a networking event where no one is faking interest in one other. That’s essentially what socialization was like for our primitive ancestors, for whom laughter was both a sign of familiarity and an involuntary gesture.
As the sun sank behind Grand Central Station on April 14, thousands of New Yorkers lined up with picket signs across the street from the Grand Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan. They were there to tell Donald Trump he is not welcome in their city—the city the Republican primary frontrunner was born and raised in.
The House heard a bill on April 14 that could make it harder for Asian women in America to exercise their right to an abortion. The bill is called the Prenatal Discrimination Act and is commonly referred to as PRENDA. If passed, PRENDA would force doctors to deny service to any woman they suspect is seeking an abortion because of the sex of her fetus and to report that woman to the police.
Netflix’s 75 million subscribers watched 42.5 billion hours of programming last year. That’s 1 hour and 33 minutes of streaming per day, per subscriber. Now, Netflix users, imagine you instead spent that hour and a half each day talking to friends, no matter where they happen to be.
For anyone who has ever wanted to be an animal biologist, it’s a dream come true: Scientists have asked the public to help conduct the largest penguin census of all time. The project, called Penguin Watch, involves tagging adult and baby penguins in hundreds of thousands of images taken by cameras installed around Antarctica.
Door-to-door canvassing can combat transphobia, according to a new study published in Science by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Results from the study show that a 10-to-15 minute conversation with a volunteer canvasser had a lasting effect on the opinion of one-out-of-10 voters who did not support equal rights for transgender people before the encounter.
Go to the home page of Cosmopolitan.com, and you’ll find plenty of its signature man-pleasing sex tricks and lifestyle tips. There are photos of Miley Cyrus’s engagement ring, a list of sex positions for when you’re feeling lazy, and a quiz about baby showers.
When Thomas Heinser showed his pictures of California’s parched landscape in a gallery last month, people couldn’t tell what they were looking at.
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The horizon line in Finnmark, Norway, is invisible when it snows. A pale grey haze extends in all directions, obscuring the difference between land and sky.
The fourth edition of the World Happiness Report found Denmark is once again home to the happiest people on earth, while people in Burundi are the least happy.
For more than a decade, photographer Lucy Gray followed three professional ballerinas through motherhood and back to work for her 2015 book, Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers.
Someone started an Instagram account with the handle @hotmigrants last week, and it’s exactly what it sounds like.
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Studies consistently find that large numbers of transgender adults suffer from high levels of depression and suicide due to social stigmatization. But a new study shows this may not be the case for children who undergo a gender identity transition with familial support.
International tennis star Maria Sharapova announced Monday that she tested positive for a drug called Meldonium that was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned drugs on January 1, 2016.
Maurice Mikkers invites strangers into his home in the Hague and makes them cry.
Every year, the best photos taken in rivers and oceans around the world are honored in the UK’s Underwater Photographer of the Year contest. Awards span eight categories that reward photographers’ ability to capture everything from intimate portraits of marine wildlife to vast seascapes.
Facebook’s signature wall, which serves as a dry-erase message board at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters, has become the site of a racially-charged graffiti war in recent weeks. Employees of the company have been crossing out ”Black Lives Matter” on the wall and writing “All Lives Matter,” instead, Gizmodo reported.
