At a wide desk in a bedroom somewhere sits a figure, her back facing the camera, supported by an ergonomic white office chair. Her head is bracketed by puffy, white noise-cancelling headphones. Her wrists rest on a foam cloud as […]
Some modern Japanese people may have a higher body mass index, or BMI, thanks to DNA they inherited from prehistoric hunter-gatherers. In a new study, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 170,000 people living across Japan, from Hokkaido in
The National Archives is delighted to announce the launch of our free family exhibition Spirit of Invention in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It opens to the public at the Discovery Museum on Saturday 16 March. It’s the first time a National Archives exhibition
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
In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after another about homes and workplaces invaded and threatened by sexy outsiders. Today we’ll talk about five of these films: Presumed Innocent (1990), The
Marc Piscotty/Getty Images Marc Piscotty/Getty Images The Second Amendment. In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun across state lines. The robber, Jack Miller, put forward a novel defense: that a law banning
A depiction of an early balloon flight in Annonay, France in 1783. The Origins of Hot Air Balloons The idea of flying is something that humans have fantasized about for centuries. Many have theorized about how this could happen. English
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. For a few hours, Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense was the most disturbing act of Donald Trump’s presidential transition. Surely the
If you remember anything about this painting, may it be that the dog’s name is Noble. The black poodle in the bottom left greets us as a silhouette with a few shiny parts: teeth, eye, damp nose, pink tongue. The
Two newly discovered stone circles, built about 5,000 years ago in what is now the southwest of England, are the latest to show that Stonehenge was not the only Stone Age circle built in the region. The new finds, according
