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ift.tt/2hhtUBH No delays this week, let’s get into the episode… Overall: As with last week, this episode felt super-uneven to me. There were some scenes that I liked quite a bit and others that were infuriating. But even more so…

ift.tt/2vXUSS4 Japanese photographer Izumi Miyazaki, like each of her pictures, is a bit of a mystery. She photographs herself, but the self-portraits aren’t actually about her. “I don’t think my pictures show my personality,” she told CNN in the summer…

ift.tt/2uN3WL0 Homer used two adjectives to describe aspects of the colour blue: kuaneos, to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black; and glaukos, to describe a sort of ‘blue-grey’, notably used in Athena’s epithet glaukopis, her ‘grey-gleaming eyes’.…

ift.tt/2uMTLpX From egg to the air: 21 days of bee development condensed into one mesmerising minute After just three weeks of development, worker bees emerge from their brood cells fully formed, flying out to begin supporting their hive. In a…

ift.tt/2w8h8bk The former secretary of labor dissects the president’s bizarre wrestling tweet. On Sunday morning Trump seemed to promote violence against CNN.  He tweeted an old video clip of him performing in a WWE professional wrestling match, with a CNN…

ift.tt/2uJtdmx Laughing at others’ misfortune is fine for ‘fail’ videos. It’s poison for politics The German word schadenfreude describes taking pleasure in another’s misfortune – a combination of joy and amusement that’s omnipresent in everything from William Shakespeare’s comedies to…

ift.tt/2v1qCrN We’re going to take the scenic route to breakfast.   Don’t worry, I do this often in life… usually it’s because I’m stubborn and I don’t like to use the navigation app on my phone.   By way of…

ift.tt/2v7fJ7K The renowned science communicator and astronomer Carl Sagan coined the phrase "we are made of starstuff" to highlight the extraordinary origins of the atoms within our bodies. "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron…

I already miss Anthony Scaramucci. Of course, he hasn’t officially been fired yet (checks Twitter), or committed suicide by jumping into boiling steak fat at his Gotti-esque Hunt and Fish Club restaurant in Manhattan (checks Twitter again). But it sure…

ift.tt/2tJDU8x A man on an Alaskan cruise killed his wife and tried to throw her body over the balcony, FBI documents released Thursday state. The man, 39-year-old Kenneth Manzanares of Santa Clara, Utah, was found Tuesday night with blood all…

New photos from “The Queen’s Justice” tease a momentous meeting via ift.tt/2vd8b4g ift.tt/RzzR49

What’s the matter with these people? The Trumpsters in the White House and Congress, I mean. Start with The Donald himself. What’s wrong with him that he would require the top officials of his government to humiliate themselves publicly, making…

You don’t have to be in “Who’s Who” to know what’s what. For example, if a tiny group of Wall Street bankers, billionaires, and their political puppets are allowed to write the rules that govern our economy and elections, guess…

How can journalism help people make sense of our turbulent world if it can’t make sense of itself? In addition to “news” (which involves reporting on real stuff), there’s now “fake news” (stuff that’s completely made up). But wait, the…

ift.tt/2vbv206 Have a few hundred bucks lying around? Here’s something neat you can do: Send some of your junk to the friggin’ Moon. This is the pitch from Astrobotic Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based spaceflight company that offers cargo space on its…

Welcome to a column from The Financial Diet, one of our very favorite sites, dedicated to money and everything it touches. One of the best ways to take charge of your financial life is through food and cooking. This column…

In this section of the site we bring you curated collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. With a leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and…

ift.tt/2tAA3eb by Joe Sexton Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations for yet another provocative missile test. The Supreme Court, in its latest ruling in the controversial travel…

ift.tt/2uUVSJ7 “In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity.” What an astrophysicist might have the perspective to eulogize as “the incredibly improbable trip that…

Often, when world powers pick fights with seemingly powerless countries, they learn that even small dogs have sharp teeth – as President Trump is finding out in his ill-fated war with Mexico. His scheme to wall off Mexico is collapsing…