Iconic "Sesame Street" puppets Bert and Ernie are a couple, according to a former writer for the show. In an exclusive interview with with blog "Queerty," Mark Saltzman said he felt that when he was w
omg.lol’s People Principles When you sign up for and use a service, especially a paid service like omg.lol, you should know what you’re supporting. Companies shouldn’t try to hide who they are or what
When I wrote about how it’s sometimes hard to be undecided or hold a complex view on the internet, I also noted: Shame is a powerful social and cultural tool to shape behavior. Norms are powerful. I t
The InclusiveWeb Tantek Çelik, a few months ago: The IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants independence from organizations, independence of agency to associate, and who embraces the web of huma
Heading into the 2024 season, most oddsmakers pegged the Red Sox to be about, or just below a .500 team. Given that they finished 78-84 in both 2022 and 2023 and didn’t make any big offseason splashes
Elías López had always sensed an invisible gulf separating him from other people. He spent most of his childhood in Mexico City alone, writing long science-fiction stories or rearranging his toys by c
As a scholar of urban governance and data policy, I viewed the responses to protests on U.S. campuses as about more than threats to academic freedom and freedom of speech. They are also threats to the
Enlarge / An MMR and VAR vaccine ready for a pediatric vaccination at Kaiser Permanente East Medical offices in Denver in 2015. Getty | Joe Amon For years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Preve
; BOSTON -- After placing trusted reliever Chris Martin on the 15-day injured list due to anxiety on Wednesday, the Red Sox put their support behind the veteran right-hander and applauded him for bein
Ever since Angel Reese's LSU team defeated Caitlin Clark's Iowa squad in the 2023 National Championship game, Reese has faced a double standard that she is well aware of. "It all started from the nati
A southern Oregon lawmaker’s comments on a podcast suggesting non-Christians aren’t qualified to hold elected office didn’t violate legislative rules around a safe and respectful workplace, a House pa
The world's first human trial of a drug that can regenerate teeth will begin in a few months, less than a year on from news of its success in animals. This paves the way for the medicine to be commerc
There’s an opportunity to reclaim, rediscover and restore North Portland’s neglected Willamette riverfront. But without a guiding vision, it will be left to happenstance, piecemeal and inappropriate d
Explore Federica Gigante says an accident of lighting helped her to uncover the surprising history of an ancient astronomical device called an astrolabe, which some have described as the original smar
Palestinians carry salvaged belongings as they leave the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip after they returned briefly to check on their homes on May 30, amid the conflict between Israel
A longstanding relationship between the Oregon Food Bank and several local Jewish organizations has seemingly fractured after the former released a statement on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaz
Around 2,500 years ago humankind began to recognize that our planet is round—although a few “flat Earth” supporters still deny this today. The shape of our universe is not clear, however. Previous stu
E360 Digest May 31, 2024 Tmesipteris oblanceolata. Pol Fernandez A rare fork fern found in the island nation of New Caledonia has become a world record holder. Scientists have discovered that the tiny
This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. Whether a child has ADHD, a learning disability or is autistic, parents of kids with special needs yearn
This month the most powerful solar storm in at least 20 years sent dazzling auroras dancing across the skies over the U.S., Europe and Asia. These spectacular displays, also called the northern lights
Amid April’s litany of bad news—war in Gaza, protests on American campuses, an impasse in Ukraine—a little uplift came for science buffs. NASA has reestablished touch with Voyager 1, the most distant
DAILY SCIENCE A. It depends on the electricity source. There’s always more to a new material that meets the eye. May 30, 2024 Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Buildings account for 40 percent
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Around 8% of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient
If you plug your ears, the voices around you become muffled—while yours becomes annoyingly amplified. “It’s like talking with your head in a barrel. Your own voice sounds booming,” says Kévin Carillo,
May 28, 2024 Last summer, I agreed to serve on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction—a group of five writers tasked with selecting the best nonfiction books of 2023 (excluding biograph
Kohei Saito knows he sounds like a madman. That’s kind of the point, the Japanese philosopher told me during a recent visit to New York City. “Maybe, then, people get shocked,” he said. “What’s this c
News May 23, 2024, 10:05 a.m. 6-year-old Berry is settling into her new habitat in the rainforest area Good news doesn’t always travel fast. Berry, a Linne’s two-toed sloth, slowly made her debut at t
Explore Science has been missing something. Something central to its very existence, and yet somehow just out of view. It is written out of papers, shooed away, shoved into laboratory closets. And yet
May 28, 2024 "There's No Way You Can Talk Back to a Gun": On Psychological Warfare For the past few years, my partner Annalee Newitz has been learning all about the history and theory of psychological
Scientists are studying the dreamlike states produced by anaesthesia – and their potential benefits for people with PTSD After her son’s death, 59-year-old Mare Lucas often woke up screaming. In her d
Just after 10:00 a.m. on January 6, 2023, in the Southern Ocean some 1,100 kilometers south of Argentina, Matthew Mulrennan’s underwater camera captured a one-of-a-kind sighting: there, 176 meters ben
The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pre
Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. This is a relatively brief post taking a recent Apple ad as a point of departure. I won’t rehash the criticisms that have a
Welcome to the Convivial Society. This is a newsletter about technology and culture, or, to borrow the title of my friend Lee Vinsel’s excellent podcast, peoples and things. The general idea is to thi
05.27.2024 WORDS BY JASON P. DINH photographs by lyndon french As the cicada dual emergence approaches, climate editor Jason P. Dinh muses on the insects as nature’s great equalizers, bringing one of
When I first read Annie Dillard’s essay “Total Eclipse,” I had been living in lockdown for several months, and I was in the middle of unenthusiastically writing a PhD about light pollution. In the eve
Explore Yes, you can get bad coffee in Vienna. Vienna is known for its beautiful cafés, where philosophers, poets, and scientists have found inspiration over endless cups of fantastic coffee for hundr
Explore Some years ago, when he was still living in southern California, neuroscientist Christof Koch drank a bottle of Barolo wine while watching The Highlander, and then, at midnight, ran up to the
ON A DARK NIGHT LAST SPRING, I followed my thirteen-year-old son quietly around our house, climbed a wooden stepladder that straddled our trash barrels, and struggled up behind him through our kitchen
The media can’t get enough of Malcolm and Simone Collins, the couple who’ve made themselves the face of the tech-aligned pronatalist movement that advocates having more kids using genetic screening te