Squirrels are all right. They’re better than your average rodent, and they jump around and stuff. But if you have a bird feeder, you might hate them. These animals just don’t get that some food is set aside for birds. They don’t respect boundaries, and they’re not above wrecking your feeder to get the goods.…
This past week, much of the world was treated to a Super Pink Moon and if you were one of many who missed out due to clouds or rain, don’t worry! This gallery of other supermoon shots will make up for it. A supermoon is a full moon that happens when the stony satellite is…
Plastics have a lot of properties that have made them fixtures of modern societies. They can be molded into any shape we’d like, they’re tough yet flexible, and they come in enough variations that we can tune the chemistry to suit different needs. The problem is that they’re tough enough that they don’t break down…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Harry Potter was one of author Veronica Roth’s earliest influences. Photograph: AlamyVeronica Roth is the bestselling author of the Divergent novels, which were adapted into a series of popular films. She says that the story of the series’ hero, Tris Prior, was influenced by some of her…
On Friday, Apple and Google announced a joint collaboration to make a Covid-19 “contact tracing” framework available for legions of Android and iOS smartphones. Slated for release next month, the platform will give public health organizations the ability to track infections and use Bluetooth proximity analysis to warn people if they’ve come into contact with…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Harry Potter was one of author Veronica Roth’s earliest influences. Photograph: AlamyVeronica Roth is the bestselling author of the Divergent novels, which were adapted into a series of popular films. She says that the story of the series’ hero, Tris Prior, was influenced by some of her…
Amber Discko’s descent into a state of emotional turmoil started as a slow trickle. It began around the time Donald Trump won the presidential election in November 2016 and when Discko’s social media and voter registration work for the Hillary Clinton campaign ended. But then, when Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the emotional levee…
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Every day when Carmelita finishes her shift in the strawberry fields of California’s central coast, she sprays herself down with Lysol, takes off the handkerchief she uses to protect her face, and tucks it in a plastic bag before getting in her…
Live streaming is booming. People spent 1.2 billion hours watching Twitch in the first quarter of 2020, according to analytics company StreamHatchet and streaming software company Streamlabs. Time spent viewing the live-streaming service, a unit of Amazon, jumped 23 percent from February to March, and the number of unique Twitch channels increased 33 percent over…
In times of strife, stories are more important than ever. They help make sense of what’s happening right now—there’s a reason everyone seems to be reading Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, chronicling the bubonic plague in London—and document the recent past. Stories can also connect people to shared history, and the lives…