FLIGHT FRIGHT
An ongoing multibillion-dollar overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system is designed to make commercial aviation more efficient, more environmentally friendly and safer by 2025. But some white-hat hackers are questioning the safety part.
LOOKING AT THINGS IN NORTH KOREA
The biggest surprise, however, was simply being there with Google. I wouldn’t have imagined that people from Google would go, nor would I have thought they’d be terribly welcome.
ZIPLOC BAGS WON'T PROTECT YOU
What is the flu? Has it hit your neighborhood? How worried should you be? How can you avoid getting it? What should you do if you do get sick?
APPS WE LIKE (SPONSORED)
Here's how to keep track of all those books, bands, and everything else that your friends/coworkers/social media cohorts tell you about.
MIND IF I SMOKE?
At a time when smoking marijuana is increasingly mainstream, legal and socially acceptable, when and where to inhale is a question flummoxing regular smokers, part-time partakers and nonsmokers alike.
WHEN TIME DOESN'T HEAL ALL WOUNDS
The pictures were graphic — four stills from the video filmed almost a year prior, with my face, among other things, in full view. Next to the stills was a screenshot of my Facebook page, with my name, location, and profile picture.
JESUS, AKA DAITENKU TARO JURAI
A mountain hamlet in northern Japan claims Jesus Christ was buried there.
ONLY IF YOU'VE GOT SUPER NOSTRILS
Half of the world's food is wasted, a new report says. Consumers typically use the "best-before" or "use-by" dates to decide when to throw food away. But should the "sniff test" be used instead?
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE
After researching nearly 20 different car smartphone mounting systems that were either recommended by publications, forum posts, or user reviews, the RAM X-Grip emerged by a landslide as the best of the bunch thanks to its military-grade construction and versatility.
FOUR MORE BEERS
The Champagne Bureau, a Washington lobby for the French Champagne industry, has a gripe with the wine listed on the menu.
THE PRISON BUSINESS
When the for-profit prison industry places the iron fist of criminal justice in the invisible hands of the market and sells it as a cost-cutting measure, it is hard not to interpret as anything but the predatory capitalism of a self-perpetuating slave state.
MOSTLY CONVINCES YOU NOT TO WEAR SPANDEX
Watch as these shining, smiling pieces of salmon, avocado and shrimp get cut down by enemy chopsticks and curl into the fetal position to await their inevitable transportation from the table to your mouth.
MOSTLY GOLD AND RED
Take a trip around the world in our gallery, where we’ve selected 15 of the most stunning spaces for opera aficionados and architecture/design lovers.
THE QUIET GIANT
How the biggest tech company in the world got that way.
YOU'D DIE BEFORE YOU GOT TO COFFEE
Do not try this at home.
10 CENTS A PIECE
I’m not sure I would say LEGO blocks are that expensive, but the statement is that they are expensive because they are so well made.
STEP UP YOUR GAME
Because the internet isn’t done talking about the ‘friend zone,’ Vsauce decided to look into the…uh…’science’ behind it.
SILLY GUN CONTROL ARGUMENTS
Of course, attempts to equate gun control with fascism are bogus. But the "Hitler took the guns" argument has long had a prominent and fairly effective role in America's gun control debate despite its obvious reductionism.
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW?
Use it to find out if your apps are spying on you, storing your personal information, and sending it anywhere you might not want them to. Essential for the paranoid; interesting for the curious.
NATURAL PROGRESSIONS
Mr. T has a long history of dabbling in various fields: wrestling, acting, music, etc. Now, he’s taking on a new arena — tea time.
ANCIENT SEX STORIES
When and how did humankind figure out that sex is what causes babies? It’s not exactly the most obvious correlation: Sex doesn’t always lead to babies, and there’s a long lead time between the act and the consequences—weeks before there are even symptoms, usually. So roughly where do we think we were as a species when it clicked?
HERO
A 94-year-old pensioner broke out of hospital in Munich so he could belatedly celebrate his birthday in one of the German city's famous beer halls, police said Thursday.
ARMY OF ONE
They were known as China’s “little emperors” – the offspring of one-child families born after the country’s draconian family planning policy was introduced in 1979. But now, scientists have produced the first convincing evidence to suggest that the one-child generation of China has indeed become a rather maladjusted lot.
BOMB-MAKING 101
On July 4, 1914, anarchists from the Modern School in New York set off a bomb in a Lexington Avenue apartment building. Stories varied. Official sources reported that the bomb had been meant for John D. Rockefeller. Instead, four students had killed themselves accidentally.
BUT IS IT BULLETPROOF?
Blogger Amanda Kooser answers the siren call of the power tools and gets medieval on the Amzer ShatterProof screen protector.
SAYS HE NEEDS MORE 'ME TIME'
The dread Somali pirate Mohamed Abdi Hassan — also known as “Afweyne,” or “Big Mouth” — is retiring from the hijacking life. Big Mouth has picked a good time to get out of the game: Piracy is way, way down.
THE NEW GAK
A super weird, rubbery non-Newtonian fluid that could be the next great material to protect your gadgets.
LEAST OFFENSIVE SECRETION
While there is good evidence that crying makes people feel better, there is little evidence showing any cathartic effect of crying.
FLU YORK CITY
The director of the National Institutes of Health says this year's season is a "classic" flu epidemic that is "still on the uptick."
PLOT TO GET YOU TO EAT MORE DONUTS
The next time you get the gift of an extra doughnut added to your dozen, thank crooked 13th-century bakers for the bonus treat.
FORCING RATINGS
ABC entertainment president Paul Lee says he’s going to take a look at the long-gestating "Star Wars" live-action TV series now that the Disney deal to acquire Lucasfilm is complete.
CRAFT BEER 101
There’s nothing to fear. Despite having names such as the Worthy Adversary, Alimony Ale and Nippletop Milk Stout, craft beers aren’t as intimidating as they appear.
DEATH OF ARTISAN COFFEE
Even if in some ways a mass-produced object is superior in its physical properties, we have good reasons for preferring a less perfect, handcrafted one.
NRA'S NEXT FRONTIER
The idea of firing objects into space from a cannon was first hinted at by Newton, and has been seized upon by many a sci-fi writer since. But what's the science behind the idea like—and could we ever launch payloads into space using the technique?