"Tutitive Dare & Tactical Drive To Forge Ahead"
The public pool in Astoria, Queens, in 2021. The pool is closed this summer for renovations. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Why America stopped building public pools By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Updated 10:21 AM EDT, Mon July 24, 2023 New York CNN — Growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, Gerome Sutton looked forward all week for his chance Read More…
When we refer to working 40 hours a week, are we really working 40 hours—or are we waiting on colleagues to respond to emails, chatting with coworkers, and wasting away in meetings for a sizable chunk of that time? There are simply some hours that aren’t true work hours, even if they occur during the Read More…
This baby elephant who thought he could face off a buffalo at Addo in South African . The calf had been quenching his thirst his herd when the buffalo decided to join in . This brash elephant made the unwise decision to confront him head on and try forcefully scare him away . African buffalos Read More…
All those services you signed up for but forgot about? They’re a security risk. Here’s how to get rid of them. Brittany Hosea-Small/AFP/Getty Images In these predominantly digital times, it’s all too easy to build up a long trail of unused accounts that are now gathering dust: free trials that you never followed up on, Read More…
Illustration by Karolis Strautniekas My childhood Barbies were always in trouble. I was constantly giving them diagnoses of rare diseases, performing risky surgeries to cure them, or else kidnapping them—jamming them into the deepest reaches of my closet, without plastic food or plastic water, so they could be saved again, returned to their plastic doll-cakes Read More…
The East River, an important watershed for the Colorado River, snakes toward Crested Butte, Colorado.Photograph: Chet Strange/The Washington Post/Getty Images This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. High winds tore at Gothic Mountain as the sleeping giant watched over the cabins nestled in Gothic, Colorado, a Read More…
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