Why some chefs are still loyal to gas stoves — and some aren’t
Last year, I needed to replace the 75-year-old gas stove in my Victorian row house in Philadelphia. It wasn’t easy. Not just because the old stove was adorable — among its many quirky features was a...
View ArticleThink your breakup was bad? Check out the Museum of Broken Relationships
Over 19 years, the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia, has amassed more than 4,000 items: watches, stiletto shoes, espresso machines, self-empowering books, wedding gowns, angry dolls,...
View ArticleCan AI perfect the IPA?
Beer is about as low-tech as it gets. The oldest surviving beer recipe was unearthed in Mesopotamia, from 1800 B.C., when the Sumerians made a divine drink from fermented barley bread soaked in water...
View ArticleIs that a bowling lane, or a piano?
It’s smoky in my memory, and it smells like beer. My dad stands slightly hunched, holding his bowling ball near his hip, the sausage fingers of his left hand crammed into the holes. He stares at the...
View ArticleHow water power is electrifying remote Himalayan villages
Along India’s border with Myanmar, an obscure Himalayan village called Kingjung is connected to the rest of India by a narrow, cliff-hugging road. From above, Kingjung looks like many remote villages...
View ArticleThis blind Slovenian salamander could hold the key to longevity
There is something comforting about burrowing deep into the Earth. It’s like renouncing the modern world’s stimulations to return to a dark, simple past. As I go deeper into Planina Cave, Slovenia’s...
View ArticleBaseball is speeding up. So are other sports. But is the clock lying to us?
Eric Gerber loves baseball. But too many of the countless hours he has spent watching baseball didn’t actually contain any baseball. The pitcher gets the ball, walks around the mound, toes the rubber,...
View ArticleOnline clothing returns take a strange trip around the world
Chances are, you’ve never been to Kantamanto, a two-acre maze of stalls, shops, and hawkers in downtown Accra, the capital of Ghana. More likely, something you’ve worn has. On a recent morning at the...
View ArticleClimate change is hitting national parks hard. Here’s how the park service is...
The road to Mariposa Grove — one of the most iconic spots in Yosemite National Park — climbed gradually, 100 feet in half a mile. Giant sequoias dotted both sides of the road as it snaked deep into...
View ArticleSomeday, you’ll move robots with your mind
The Fantasy Remember when Yoda used the Force to lift Luke’s entire X-wing fighter out of the swamp in The Empire Strikes Back? How about when Stranger Things’ Eleven levitated Mike, or when Stephen...
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