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It’s the age-old question… Pop, soda or Coke?
WDAF via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoKANSAS CITY, Mo. — We are all aware that geographical regions can play a major role in crafting ideas, beliefs and perspectives. But how large of an...
Namibia overturns law criminalizing same-sex relationships
Semafor via Yahoo News· 1 day ago“The British exported their legal systems… imposing them on societies where often consensual...
Archaeologists find 18th-century ring at historic Michigan fort
CBS News· 2 days agoArchaeologists at Colonial Michilimackinac found a brass trade ring. These rings are commonly known...
The best supermarket own-label wines for summer
Daily Telegraph· 1 day agoSupermarket own-label wines have been around for more than half a century. Sainsbury’s is thought to be the British pioneer, launching a range in the 1960s ...
The History Behind Pic Allegedly Showing a Palestinian Beach Before Israel Was Founded
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn sum, the photograph is a snapshot of the early days of Tel Aviv. Though founded under Ottoman...
The legend of the lost ship of the desert
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoIn 1870, Philadelphia’s Evening Telegraph called it “a marvellous story” about “a ship high and dry on a Colorado Desert – billows of sand beating about...
UK’s Nigel Farage sparks outrage from opponents after saying West ‘provoked’ Ukraine war
WKBT La Crosse· 8 hours agoFarage – who heads the fast-growing Reform UK political party and was a pivotal figure in in Brexit...
A Long Exposure | Martin Filler
New York Review of Books· 9 hours agoIt’s called multiple discovery—also known as simultaneous invention—and supports the hypothesis that new concepts can arise concurrently among independent researchers. Famous instances of this ...
The Best Audiobooks for Roadtrips of Any Length
Time via AOL· 1 day agoSeriously, give her all the awards for this. Length: 5 hours, 31 minutes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams British comedian Stephen Fry...
How women runners debunked myths about the sport and made running their own
NPR· 9 hours agoSo when British runner Diane Leather broke the five-minute mile in 1954, she didn’t bag the official world record because it wasn...Gibb’s rejected application. “To me, that ...