Illustrations by Chrissie Abbott My induction into conspiracy thinking came in the fall of my first year of high school, when my seventh-period journalism teacher devoted a lecture to the Illuminati. A nefarious group of global elites controlled our politics and our economy, he told us. They met in…

A Reporter at Large Six ordinary lives intersect at the instant of the atomic blast—and through terror, illness, and ruin, reveal what survival costs. This summary is AI-generated. Learn More » August 24, 1946 A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived…

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Dieses Audio ist derzeit nicht verfügbar. Mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit von 72 Prozent finden Sie in Ihrer Wohnung eine Erklärung dafür, dass immer mehr Menschen glauben, es gäbe eine Elite, die Kinder frisst. Gut, dieser Satz ist einigermaßen erklärungsbedürftig, und dazu muss man etwas ausholen. Am…

Judging by the amount of media coverage Mastodon is getting, you might conclude that it's already dead. Of course, plenty of folks have predicted long ago that Mastodon won't survive or is dead in the water. Wait, then why are there more than a million active accounts on Mastodon and other fediverse…

New Research For decades, physicists have debated whether the phenomenon exists and how to study it Theresa Machemer - Correspondent Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter! Physicist Avinash Kumar of Simon Fraser University stands beside the Mpemba effect apparatus. Photo by Prithviraj Basak The…

Matt De Neef Published July 28, 2020 01:28AM Here’s a thought experiment for you. Say you went out and rode every street in your suburb. What would the distance of that ride be? What if you did it again, but tried to keep the distance as short as possible? How would you go about finding the optimal…

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Updated May 12, 2022 12:00AM We were two or three weeks into building a cabin when the first two-by-four became the target of a sudden, white-hot flash of anger. It was the summer of 2018, in the middle of Washington’s emerald-soaked Cascade Range, and I was on the phone with my father, seeking…

What happens when anaesthesia fails 13 March 2019 David RobsonFeatures correspondent Getty One in 20 patients remain aware but paralysed during major medical procedures - though the vast majority will not remember it afterwards. Why? It can be the smallest event that triggers Donna Penner’s…

In the 1989 US blockbuster “Back to the Future II,” time traveler Marty McFly orders a Pepsi Perfect at Hill Valley’s futuristic Cafe 80s. It was an iconic moment of product placement. But if you look very closely at a different scene showing future McFly as he video-conferences a co-worker in 2015,…

I recently took a drive-through COVID-19 test at the University of North Carolina. Everything was well organized and efficient: I was swabbed for 15 uncomfortable seconds and sent home with two pages of instructions on what to do if I were to test positive, and what precautions people living with or…

Photo by Aleks Dahlberg on Unsplash Ah, yes, Vim, the powerful text-editor that is everywhere and a place where even the wisest can’t quit. You had to hear about it at least once. Or you might have considered learning or trying it. But why do it now? It’s 2020, doesn’t everyone use VSCode already?…

Members of Heaven’s Gate, a religious cult, believed that as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth in 1997, a spaceship would be traveling in its wake—ready to take true believers aboard. Several members of the group bought an expensive, high-powered telescope so that they might get a clearer view of…

Fifty metres under Tokyo lies a subterranean world — 6.4 kilometres of tunnels, water tanks and massive pillars constructed to withstand 200 tonnes of water per second. This engineering marvel built to protect the ever-present threat of Tokyo flooding. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube 👉…

Die Gemeinde Bettmeralp sucht mit der Unterstützung der Bevölkerung einen neuen 🥼Bergdoktor. Auch ihr könnt der Gemeinde bei der Suche helfen! Teilt dieses Video und markiert jede Ärztin und jeden Arzt, der als Bergdoktor geeignet ist. Vergält’s Gott! 🙏 #bergdoktorgesucht Kontakt der Gemeinde…

When was the first time you heard about antifa? Maybe it was in the viral footage in which a black-clad, masked figure delivered a flying punch to neo-Nazi Richard Spencer’s jaw on the afternoon of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. Or, perhaps, it was after the Unite The Right rally in…

Friedrich Schmitt ist Jurist und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Öffentliches Recht der Universität Freiburg. Dieser Artikel basiert auf einer im Jahrbuch Informationsfreiheit und Informationsrecht 2019 erschienen Untersuchung zur polizeilichen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit auf Twitter.…

As a COVID-19 summer surge sweeps the country, deep cleans are all the rage. National restaurants such as Applebee’s are deputizing sanitation czars to oversee the constant scrubbing of window ledges, menus, and high chairs. The gym chain Planet Fitness is boasting in ads that “there’s no surface we…

I love Joe Sacco’s “Bitumen or Bust” partly because the last time I drove through Alberta, Canada, I too nearly ran out of gas in the middle of a highway, just as Sacco and his friends nearly did. But the cartoonist and journalist’s account of his trip through Alberta’s tar sands — excuse me: oil…

S ucht er nach Frauen, die seine Kinder austragen möchten, gibt er sich Decknamen wie „Fabian“ oder „James“. In Kontaktanzeigen schreibt er: „Intelligenter, gesunder Mann (40/185/85) sucht Frau zur Erfüllung ihres Kinderwunsches. Melde dich!“ An einem Junimorgen sitzt dieser Mann in einer…

SLEDHEAD Sledding Athletes Are Taking Their Lives. Did Brain-Rattling Rides and High-Speed Crashes Damage Their Brains? Mark Wood By On May 3, Pavle Jovanovic, a former bobsledder, rigged a chain to a crane he and his brother kept in the shop of their family’s metal works in Toms River, N.J. He tied…

A long time ago, about a decade after the end of the war in Beirut, I lived in a huge, crumbling house by the sea. Every foray into the heart of the city—to work, to the supermarket, to the cafés on Hamra Street—meant a trudge up a steepish hill. Not so steep a climb as in, say, Lisbon or Istanbul,…

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Folge 4 Christian Bogner war schon einmal nach einem Ausbruch in der Identität eines anderen festgenommen worden. Von diesem Mann fehlt bis heute jede Spur und Bogner wurde freigesprochen. Zu Recht? 06.06.2020 08.06.2020, 17:29 Uhr Bückeburg-Einen steilen Berg geht es hinauf, an den Ortsrand einer…

Folge 3 Christian Bogner beteuert seit seiner Verhaftung vor 15 Jahren seine Unschuld. Entscheidende Fragen konnten nicht geklärt werden. Trotzdem befindet er sich seither in Isolation, damit er kein Anstaltspersonal manipulieren kann. 06.06.2020 08.06.2020, 17:29 Uhr Berlin-Im September 2019…

Folge 2 Nach der Verhaftung von Christian Bogner verfolgen die Ermittler eine ungeheuerliche Spur: Wieso konnte Bogner direkt nach dem Ausbruch eine neue Identität annehmen? 06.06.2020 08.06.2020, 17:30 Uhr Sehnde-In der Justizvollzugsanstalt Sehnde sitzt Christian Bogner beim ersten Treffen im…

Lübeck-Am 28. Oktober 2019 wartet Christian Bogner morgens um 6 Uhr mit seiner Habe im Hochsicherheitstrakt der JVA Celle. Drei SEK-Beamte mit Sturmhauben treten ein und belehren ihn, dass er nun unter polizeilicher Hoheit steht, so berichtet es Bogner. Im Falle der Flucht drohe ein…

Joe Morrison 7 min read· Jun 22, 2020 -- Disclaimer: the views I express in my personal blog are just that: personal. They aren’t endorsed by my employer, my mother, my lawyer, or anyone else for that matter. Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Joe Green on Unsplash The big news…

Published June 17, 2020 12:00AM The cave’s entrance was a rusting, three-foot-tall, red casing pipe rising out of the ground behind a Minnesota farmhouse, surrounded by a quiet, flat stretch of prairie grass. Just 2.5 feet across, it was topped with a green, diamond-plated steel cover and might…

Image above: Izidor Ruckel near his home outside Denver Updated at 3:22 p.m. ET on June 23, 2020. For his first three years of life, Izidor lived at the hospital. The dark-eyed, black-haired boy, born June 20, 1980, had been abandoned when he was a few weeks old. The reason was obvious to anyone who…

Nach einer Stunde steht der Höhenmesser still. Er zeigt 3.050 Meter, wie festgefroren. Links und rechts von uns pressen Granitwände Eis und Schnee ins Tal. Um uns eiskalte Luft. Vor uns erhebt sich eine Wand in der Landschaft. Das Ende des Ruth-Gletschers, eine Bergscharte: Da müssen wir rüber.…