Saint Tomas church above Praprotno village in Slovenia

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NOAA Ocean Explorer: Battle of the Atlantic: Archaeology of an Underwater WWII Battlefield:

NOAA and its research partners are surveying, for the first time since they sank more than 70 years ago, the remains of two ships that were involved in a convoy battle off North Carolina during World War II. The “Battle of the Atlantic: Archaeology of an Underwater WWII Battlefield” expedition is part of an ongoing research project to document and highlight a little-known, but important, chapter in the nation’s maritime history.
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Smack in the Suburbs

Avon Lake,Ohio is an upmarket suburb of a US city - but opiate addiction is tearing apart the fabric of the neighborhood.
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Water Odyssey

Morgan Maassen
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SIT - Short Documentary Film

A film about purpose in life, seen through the eyes of a Buddhist monk and his son.
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TD9 Development up to 2016-08-31, then +5 Day Forecast.

This animation models surface winds of the development of TD9 up to the current day, 2016-08-31, then seamlessly shows the +5 day potential path of the storm, up to 2016-09-01. The entire sequence is then repeated showing wind power density. Data from the GFS 2016-08-31T06:00Z run. Hurricane Gaston makes an appearance then spins out of the frame harmlessly.
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Closer

Frida Amundsen
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Creepy Pokemon Go-Like App Lets You Receive Visual Messages from Beyond the Grave

Ryoshin Sekizai, a tombstone company in Japan, has created an augmented reality app similar to Pokemon Go that lets user catch video messages from deceased loved ones.
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Celebrate 100 years of National Parks by exploring them with these apps and gear

It’s been 100 years since the founding of the National Park Service, and we’ve round up the gear to bring along for discovering the beautiful landscapes and to safely get out of them.
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Andersonville Prison Commemoration

Andersonville Prison Commemoration A “Funeral for 13,000” was held at the Andersonville National Cemetery to remember the Union soldiers who died in captivity there during the Civil War. Keynote speakers included Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey and University of Akron history professor Lesley Gordon. The ceremony included a ceremonial casket on a horse-drawn limber and caisson, the Pledge of Allegiance, an invocation, poetry, the Maneuver School of Excellence Brass Quintet, wreath presentations, rendering of honors by the Georgia Army National Guard, taps, and a benediction.
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Seljalandsfoss, Iceland

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Drone Captures Stunning View of Uluru

One of Australia's best-known landmarks, Uluru, has been filmed from a new perspective.
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How the Upright Citizens Brigade Improvised a Comedy Empire

T thought that I had reached an age at which I could opt out of embarrassing myself in public, but last year, of my own free will, I did something mortifying. I took a series of eight improvisational-comedy classes with the Upright Citizens Brigade, which has, in the past two decades, developed into an empire with a cultural reach rivalling that of Deepak Chopra, say, or Kanye West. One Sunday morning, dressed to aerobicize (“You should be prepared to move around, lay on the ground and stretch in various positions,”...
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Archaeologists are fuming over a new study about how early hominin Lucy died

It’s not every day that researchers crack a case this cold. Lucy, the iconic hominin found in present-day Ethiopia, died 3.18 million years ago. Her cause of death has remained a mystery since her remains were first discovered in 1974.
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Influence of the Reconstruction Amendments

Historians and legal scholars discuss the influence of the 13th and 14th Amendments on modern American society. These were ratified during the Reconstruction era and dealt with rights for freed…
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Going to Pot

Humboldt County's marijuana boom is destroying a unique redwood forest ecosystem and killing some of California's rarest wildlife. Now veteran pot farmers are fighting the ‘green rush’ to make cannabis cultivation truly sustainable. By Todd Woody. (Apr. 18, 2016)
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A Tale of Two Standoffs

The federal response to Lakota protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline couldn't be more different than their reaction to this year's Bundy occupation. By Michael McLean.
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Three Years of Nights

Violence convulses the city after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars. By Peter Nickeas.
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A decade on, vaccine has halved cervical cancer rate

The world's first cancer vaccine has halved the number of new cervical cancers ten years after it was first administered in Australia.
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‘It feels like a gift’: mobile phone co-op transforms rural Mexican community

In indigenous communities like Nuyoó [Oaxaca], where almost every family has members who have migrated for work, low-cost phone calls are seen as an essential service. By Nina Lakhani.
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25 Photos that Reveal a Century of the National Park Service

From California to Alaska, this breathtaking gallery celebrations the natural wonders of the United States' National Parks
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Battle Over Reconstruction

Author and historian Mark Summers looks at the political battles surrounding Reconstruction and how the era has been understood through history.
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Ancient Zen Advice On How Not To 'Be A Jerk'

While author Brad Warner's approach to 13th-century Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen may be unorthodox, its freshness might be exactly what the doctor ordered, says Adam Frank.
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Why Growth Will Fall

William D. Nordhaus reviews "The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War" by Robert J. Gordon.
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Reconstruction and Southern Women

Scholars talk about perceptions of women, both white and black, at the end of the Civil War and during the Reconstruction era.
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Civil War's Influence on Medicine

Author and professor Shauna Devine talks about Civil War medicine and how it influenced the future of American medical science.
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Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other's skulls

For a large part of human prehistory, people around the world practised trepanation: a crude surgical procedure that involves forming a hole in the skull of a living person by either drilling, cutting or scraping away layers of bone with a sharp implement. To date, thousands of skulls bearing signs of trepanation have been unearthed at archaeological sites across the world. But despite its apparent importance, scientists are still not completely agreed on why our ancestors performed trepanation.
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Tropical Depression 8 forms off North Carolina Coast Sunday

The system could become Tropical Storm Hermine on Monday and pass just offshore of the Outer Banks, N.C., on Tuesday.
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Naming America’s Own Genocide

In a commanding new book, Benjamin Madley calls California’s 19th-century elected officials “the primary architects of annihilation” against Native Americans in the state. Reading it is like watching bodies being piled on a pyre. By Richard White.
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A Year Ago Someone Set Fire to a Black Church in Georgia. What Now?

The spate of all-black church burnings after Charleston did not curb old anxieties of racial hatred in the south. It amplified them. By Collier Meyerson. (June 30, 2016)
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Altamont, The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day

I could feel it before I got there. Several miles out and the dark vibes curled through the air like a toxic vapor. Serpentine streams of people twisted through the hills, uncertain of exactly where they were going. There were no maps. No trails. No signs. Nothing pointing toward our destination: Altamont." By Marc Campbell.
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Danuta Siedzikówna - Polish National Heroine, executed August 28, 1946

Danuta Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz;Polish national heroine. Born 3 September 1928, Guszczewina – died 28 August 1946, Gdańsk) was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron (created in the Białystok area) of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army.[1] In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomorze (Pomerania) region.
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Autumn Park Photo by Ian McGregor

A park in Regina, Saskatchewan in the Autumn.
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Cairo,Egypt Sunset

The sun sets over the pyramids and the River Nile in Egypt's capital, Cairo.
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And The No. 1 Scrabble Nation In The World Is ...

Wellington Jighere of Nigeria was crowned world champ last year. He's one of many Nigerians who excel at the game. What's their secret?
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The drink that costs more than gold

China’s ancient bushes of Da Hong Pao produce one of the most expensive teas in the world, astonishingly costing more than 30 times its weight in gold.
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An 80 Million-Year-Old Secret

Before 2000, few people in China – or the rest of the world – had heard of the Rainbow Mountains. Now they are catching the eye of photographers and filmmakers.
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Moody’s Warns Polish Investment Spending at Risk From Politics

Poland’s escalating political crisis threatens to impair investment spending and economic development, Moody’s Investors Service said two weeks before its scheduled review of the sovereign rating for the eastern European nation.
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The man who hopes to unseat Poland’s new government

Telegenic economist leads resistance to the new Law and Justice government.
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Double Tropical Threat Looms for Hawaii Next Week

Hawaii is facing not one, but two tropical threats next week as Madeline and Lester churn westward.
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Chatham Manor

Historian Donald Pfanz talks about Chatham Manor, the only known house in the U.S. visited by both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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Typhoon Lionrock to Barrel into Japan's Northern Honshu Island on Tuesday

Typhoon Lionrock is poised to make landfall in Japan early next week with heavy rainfall, damaging winds and an inundating storm surge.
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Finland's Relaxed Approach to the First Day of School

The global education pioneer eases students into the classroom.
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Fear Unveiled: Why Banning the Burqa Makes No Sense

Calls in Germany to ban the burqa are misguided and the move would do little to liberate Muslim women. The fight for emancipation must come from inside the religion.
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The National Park Service just turned 100. We visited one of its filthiest, most forgotten sites

Dead Horse Bay, the National Park Service site where the waves clink with broken glass, is a reminder of New York City's brutal past.
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The Mammoth Pirates

In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush is under way.
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Hallstatt, Austria

located near the Hallstätter lake
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California may become a marijuana 'epicenter,' with pot a $6.5 billion market

If Californians legalize marijuana under Proposition 64 in November, legal cannabis sales in the state likely will climb by $1.6 billion within the first year of implementation, according to a report released Tuesday.
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EU Copyright Law Undermines Innovation and Creativity on the Internet. Mozilla is Fighting for Reform

The internet is an unprecedented platform for innovation, opportunity and creativity. It’s where artists create; where coders and entrepreneurs build game-changing technology; where educators and researchers unlock progress; and where everyday people live their lives.
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Immigration: Brexit an opportunity to fix 'broken' system

Leaving the EU is an opportunity to fix the UK's "broken" immigration system and restore public confidence in controlled migration, a report says.
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