Treadmill desks are popular, even aspirational, in many offices today since they can help those of us who are deskbound move more, burn extra calories and generally improve our health. … [Read more...]
SpaceX’s New Hangar Is A Mammoth Gateway To The Stars
To send really big rockets into space, you need equally enormous buildings to construct them in. Enter SpaceX’s new hangar, under construction right next to the pad that used to send Apollo missions to the Moon. … [Read more...]
Wildfire Smoke From Canada Moving Into United States
Smoke from wildfires in western Canada is seeping down into the lower 48, adding an orange glow to sunsets from Minnesota to New Jersey. Dust from wildfires in central and northern Saskatchewan and Alberta is visible for a wide swath of the U.S. (check out our adjacent smoke map from Tuesday night), with sunsets on Tuesday night taking on an added orange tint from Baltimore to … [Read more...]
Survey Points to Challenges NATO Faces Over Russia
WASHINGTON - As NATO faces a resurgent Russian military, a substantial number of Europeans do not believe that their own countries should rush to defend an ally against attack, according to a comprehensive survey to be made public on Wednesday. … [Read more...]
Yankees 6, Nationals 1: Masahiro Tanaka Flashes Form and Substance in Yankees Win
Give or take an inch, a few pounds and two or three miles per hour on their fastballs, Masahiro Tanaka and Max Scherzer are aesthetic equals. Scherzer's career in the majors has been longer and therefore more accomplished - including a 2013 Cy Young award - but Tanaka continues to prove his place among the game's best arms. … [Read more...]
Cavaliers 96, Warriors 91: N.B.A. Finals: LeBron James and Cavaliers Hold Off Warriors
CLEVELAND - About eight hours before Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals, after he had completed his morning workout with the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry sat at the center of 40-some reporters and answered about a dozen questions that were mild variations on the same, well-established theme: his shooting woes. … [Read more...]
Meanwhile in the Future: When Antibiotics Stop Working
This week’s episode of Meanwhile in the Future gets very scary, very quickly. And we’re not going all that far into the future, either. We’re already starting to see the beginnings of an age without antibiotics. So what does a world without these drugs look like? Listen to find out. … [Read more...]
Flooding Continues: Louisiana – Photos & Videos From the Ground
The Red River in Louisiana is far past flood stage swallowing many homes causing mass amounts of damage. Record rainfall fell through portions of the southern plains last month. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an average of 4.36 inches of rain fell across the Lower 48 which is roughly 1.45 inches above average. … [Read more...]
Presidential Hopeful Wants To Switch From Fahrenheit To Celsius
If one presidential hopeful has his way, 30 degrees could soon be bathing suit weather. Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, a Democratic presidential hopeful for next year’s election, wants America to go from Fahrenheit to Celsius as part of his overall plan of switching America to the Metric system – and ultimately, mainstreaming temperature readings from Fahrenheit … [Read more...]
First Words: When You ‘Literally Can’t Even’ Understand Your Teenager
A little paradox of Internet celebrity is that a YouTube personality can amass millions upon millions of young fans by making it seem as if he's chatting with each of them one to one. Tyler Oakley, a 26-year-old man who identifies as a "professional fangirl," is a master of the genre. He has nerd glasses, pinchable cheeks, a quiff he dyes in shades of blue and green and … [Read more...]