Next May, Airbnb will host two nights of immersive, three-hour gladiator experiences. Airbnb / Daniele Castellaro Next spring, travel company Airbnb will welcome 32 lucky people into the Colosseum—the ancient Roman amphitheater in which enslaved combatants once fought to the […]
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
SHOW NOTES: Sources:A Fine Romance and Knock Wood by Candice Bergen Malle on Malle, edited by Philip French, by Louis Malle Louis Malle: Interviews edited by Christopher Beach Candice Bergen: Happy To Settle Down by Judy Klemesrud, NYTimes, April 13,
The Sixth Amendment. Most of us take it for granted that if we’re ever in court and we can’t afford a lawyer, the court will provide one for us. And in fact, the right to an attorney is written into
Isaac Newton in later life. Painting by James Thornhill. Early Life and Education Newton’s early life was marked by personal hardships. His father died three months before he was born, and when Newton was three, his mother remarried, leaving him
Matt Gaetz has officially withdrawn from being considered for attorney general. Mark Peterson / Redux November 21, 2024, 2:14 PM ET Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app.
In today’s newsletter, new reporting from Rania Abouzeid on the toll in Lebanon of the Israel-Hezbollah war. But, first, the fresh relevance of the fight for legal birth control. Plus: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. Illustration by Chloe Cushman;
This view is just part of a new, high-resolution image of the sun’s full surface captured by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Screenshot. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / PHI & EUI teams; Data
An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the galaxy, and the best way to do that is by steering their binary star system, a researcher proposes in a new paper. Long-lived civilizations may have many motivations for wanting
An extraordinary claim that Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape were betrayed by two of their own side has come to light in files at The National Archives. Seventy-six prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III camp 80
