How Korea Became a Forgotten War

During the Korean War, the United States inflicted unimaginable horrors on the Korean people. Yet today Americans know almost nothing about their government's role in war crimes and atrocities.
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Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State

Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.
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She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew.

After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.
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News Corp Bargaining Code

Honest Government Ad
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Texas was a warning. Australia needs to rethink the design of its electricity market

During the Texas cold snap prices jumped 30,000%. We can't allow it to happen here.
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Why are Victorian Houses Haunted?

There was a time when the Victorian facade was a prevalent status symbol in the United States.
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Australian News Sites Shocked & Upset To Learn They Don't Need To Rely On Facebook For Traffic!

I am still perplexed and confounded at how many people seem to think that Facebook is the one at fault for blocking links to news in Australia. Again, the law (that was about to be approved by the Australian Parliament despite Facebook warning them...
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Homicide Cases in Texas Are Going Unsolved, Leaving Serial Killers Free to Murder Again

Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them.
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Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?

When a term signifies something that does not exist, we need to examine our use of it.
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Texas is making the case for the Green New Deal

Climate change will make extreme weather more common. We need to get ready.
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Off-road, off-grid: the modern nomads wandering America's back country

Across US public lands thousands of people are taking to van life, as featured in the Oscar-tipped film Nomadland
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How did ancient Egyptians bake? After 54 loaves, scholar finds answers

The technique implies covering the inside of the conical bread moulds with a layer of fine sandy clay, heating the moulds up horizontally and shaping the dough in advance into elongated pieces.
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Google has removed public transport from google maps in Canberra

Canberra map bus directions currently only show Queanbeyan buses.
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Study of partial left femur suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis was not a hominin and thus was not the earliest known human ancestor

A small team of researchers from France, Italy and the U.S., has found evidence that suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis was not a hominin, and thus was not the earliest known human ancestor. In their paper published in Journal of Human Evolution, the group describes their study of the fossilized leg bone and what it showed them.
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What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

Millions of Texans were without heat and electricity Monday as snow, ice and frigid...
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How to protect your IT power from deep-freeze disasters

It may be too late this time but there will always be another major power outage. Be ready with a power disaster recovery setup.
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Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it

Study of ancient Africans suggests dairy consumption predated evolution of lactase persistence genes
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Photos: The 15 Tallest Statues in the World

Images of the 15 tallest statues in the world as of today, plus five bonus photos of some more famous—if smaller—colossal monuments
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Can Ireland return to its former wilderness?

Ireland was once a wilderness of temperate rainforest and pristine bogs, where large carnivores and other beasts roamed. What would it take to restore Ireland to its wild state?
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Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales

Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire
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Prehistoric teeth hint at Stone Age sex with Neanderthals

A new analysis of 11 teeth found in a cave in Jersey, an island in the English Channel, suggests that some of them could have belonged to individuals that had mixed Neanderthal and early modern human ancestry.
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Star Wars Characters as Classical Japanese Art

Digital artist scadarts (also known as mandal0re) uses Photoshop to put Star Wars characters into classic artworks. His latest series uses the classical Japanese style to portray Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul, and Leia Organa.
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Alexei Navalny Grows More Powerful Every Time Putin Talks About Him

One day we may look back on January 2021 as the beginning of the end of Putin’s reign.
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