How to Navigate the French Cheese Course

The duo behind The Cook's Atelier helps you make the most of that giant board of stinky fromage.
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As Hawaii Aims for 100% Renewable Energy, Other States Watching Closely

How to incorporate solar and wind while keeping the electricity grid stable is a key question
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In Hawaii, being nice is the law

‘Aloha’ is a legal concept that grew out of the necessity for Hawaiians to live in peace and work together, in harmony with the land and their spiritual beliefs.
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Wooden Shigir idol found to be over twice as old as Egyptian pyramids

A team of researchers in Germany has found evidence suggesting that the famous wooden Shirgir Idol is actually 11,500 years old. The team has documented their efforts and findings in a paper published on the Cambridge University Press site Antiquity.
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What's An 'Incel'? The Online Community Behind The Toronto Van Attack

Reporter Arshy Mann breaks down the ideology of violent misogyny linked to the Toronto suspect: "It's quite a disturbing part of the Internet."
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Western bombing won’t save Syria. Non-western diplomacy might

Interventionist policies from the west have failed in the Middle East. It’s time for the rest of the world to step up, says Chandran Nair, chief executive and founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow, a Hong Kong based thinktank
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'I run for the family I'm not allowed to see'

Runner Salah Ameidan takes part in the Sahara Marathon every year - it's the closest he can get to his family, who live in territory governed by Morocco.
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Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest

More than 140 children were ritually killed in a single event in Peru more than 500 years ago. What could possibly have been the reason?
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Finland’s Basic Income Pilot Was Never Really A Universal Basic Income

Much has been made of the end of the Nordic country’s experiment with giving some of its residents cash, but the program was actually a conservative welfare program that doesn’t say anything about the true UBI experiments in the works around the world.
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‘My Generation Is Never Going to Have That’

In Seattle’s red-hot housing market, a group of millennial techies is using data skills to alter the look, and affordability, of their adopted city.
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Death by Instagram

The inside story of Detroit’s gang wars, a battle prosecutors say was fueled by Instagram hit lists and the Seven Mile Bloods, the social-media savvy gang that had a death grip on both the opioid drug trade and one of the deadliest parts of America’s most violent big city.
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The room inside Pine Gap no Australian could enter, bar one

Declassified US cables confirm the existence of a "national communication and cypher room" at the spy base in the Northern Territory. By Nick Miller.
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Marxists Look Back on the Russian Revolution

Two new books find committed leftists wrangling with the grisly legacy of October 1917. By J.P. O'Malley.
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Watch: Buckingham Palace Transformed by Rainforest Projection

A rainforest design was projected on the facade of Buckingham Palace on Sunday as part of a global conservation initiative led by Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Harrowing Floods of Bangladesh, in Photos

A rickshawala, with the help of his daughter, tried to cross a flooded road in Ramu. “I am documenting what’s around me not only as a photojournalist, but also as a victim,” Jashim Salam says. In Chittagong, Bangladesh, where he lives and works, rising water levels during monsoon season have left houses and places of business..
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Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, British Veterinary Association warns after ‘anti-vaxx’ movement spread to pets

Dogs cannot get ‘autism’, the British Veterinary Association has warned, after the ‘anti-vaccine’ movement spread to pets.
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Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People’s Cars

How a uniquely punitive impound program combined with the drug war and asset forfeiture to deprive people of their vehicles for years at a time.
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How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream

The global wind turbine industry has transformed from a collection of small companies in Denmark to corporations pulling off enormous feats of engineering.
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This luxurious hotel room is also a crazy paradise for gamers — take a look inside

This room puts your at-home gaming rig to shame.
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Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911

Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911. Plenty of living historians and enthusiasts of the city have paid intensive attention to that booming time period when the city's population fast approached five million, but none experienced it first-hand.
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Connecting our homeless neighbors with their loved ones

San Francisco’s housing crisis is painfully obvious with a homeless population of 7,499 people, according to a 2017 homeless census and survey. People lose their homes for a variety of reasons — job losses, wrongful evictions, excessive rent hikes and so forth.
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Yes, Syria's Assad regime is brutal. But the retaliatory air strikes are illegal and partisan

If states are permitted to determine when force is warranted, outside the existing legal framework, the legitimacy of that framework may be fatally undermined.
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The Great Chinese Dinosaur Boom

A gold rush of fossil-finding is turning China into the new epicenter of paleontology
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What lies behind the simplistic image of the happy Buddhist?

Behind the beatific image of Tibetan Buddhism lies a dark, complicated reality. But is it one the Western gaze wants to see?
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Where the Mega-Rich Hide Away on Hawai'i

A peek behind the curtain at the ultra-luxe Kohanaiki private club, where your every wish can be fulfilled.
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Waterfall drive

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“There’s too many men”: What happens when women are outnumbered on a massive scale

China and India have 70 million more men than women. The consequences are far-reaching.
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North Korea Is Not De-Nuclearizing

The Trump administration shouldn’t get too excited about Kim Jong Un’s pledge to limit his weapons program.
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Olga Tokarczuk: ‘I was very naive. I thought Poland would be able to discuss the dark areas of our history’

The books interview: A literary star in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk is hotly tipped to win the Man Booker international prize. She talks about facing controversy at home and the armed bodyguards hired to protect her
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The Unlikely Upside of Cape Town's Drought

What are human beings capable of when it feels as if the world is about to end?
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Fiery siege at Branch Davidian compound reverberates 25 years later

On the 25th anniversary since the religious compound became a fiery charnel house, the plot east of Waco remains a symbol of tragic consequences.
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Tuktoyaktuk: Canada’s last Arctic village?

Canada’s 137km Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway is a vital new lifeline across unremittingly spartan tundra, but also a window on an almost-forgotten way of indigenous life.
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North Korea wants total denuclearisation, says Seoul

South Korean president says Pyongyang has not attached conditions such as US troop withdrawal
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China Viewed From Above

Simply a collection of some amazing recent aerial images showing the vast diversity of landscapes across China.
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The lesson from Hither Green – no one can be forced to share another’s grief

The floral tributes to slain intruder Henry Vincent have caused anger and resentment, but shrines are rarely places of peace, says religion writer Andrew Brown.
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Louisiana's Jury System Is a Monument to White Supremacy

It should be torn down like the Confederate monuments. By Charles P. Pierce.
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Russia’s Telegram ban is a big, convoluted mess

Brute enforcement has taken major banks, online stores, and Viber calls offline.
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1 in 4 New York City mice carry drug-resistant bacteria, study finds

More than a third of mice examined in a new report contained potentially harmful bacteria.
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San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble

The city’s building code does not protect its people from earthquakes nearly as much as you might think.
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Reuters Wins Pulitzer for Photography of Rohingya Crisis

(Warning: graphic content) An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September,2017
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How the FTC’s 1998 Case Against GeoCities Laid the Groundwork for Facebook Debates Today

It seems that internet privacy protections are still “under construction.”
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Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break

An undercover author and an anonymous survey found that workers believed taking a long break could lead to warnings at an Amazon warehouse.
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Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site

As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert plateau above the Columbia River.
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This is how airline food is changing to become tastier and smarter

Data and modern cooking techniques are helping airline food to improve. And at 30,000 feet, sous-vide is helping to keep food fresh and flavoursome
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Judge's comment from ranked-choice hearing underscores legal concern

A comment during supreme court arguments on ranked-choice voting offers a window into where many fear that things are headed - more legal challenges.
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | American Experience | PBS

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.
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As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind

Demographic shifts rippling across the nation are fueling fears that their culture and standing are under threat.
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A Tale of American Hubris

Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat. By Tom Engelhardt.
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The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font

Just you try designing 13,000-plus intricate character shapes that all have to balance one another.
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South Korea's 'yogurt ladies' ride motorized fridges to bring your dairy fix

The fleet of delivery ladies used to have to drag along heavy carts all day.
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