Vanguard says the chances of a recession by late 2020 have risen to between 30 and 40 percent. 1/29 White House aides often tell President Trump not to call foreign leaders at odd hours due to time zone differences. 2/29 Donald Trump hires the worst people, according to
Gardening lessons from the late 1920s, centering on the cultivation of beans, "including some wonderful time-lapse footage and inter-titles to match."
A robot, "There's Waldo," can find a Waldo in about four and a half seconds. From the Verge: Matt Reed, a Creative Technologist at Redpepper who led the project, got 62 Waldo heads and 45 full-body Waldos from Google image search, then fed the data
Horror at Charlottesville did not temper the president’s enthusiasm for demonizing religious and ethnic minorities that characterized his 2016 campaign, and has not dampened his administration’s efforts to turn those convictions into policy. Charlottesville proved that white nationalists are winning within the Republican Party. 1/20 Twitter suspends
Washington, D.C., prepares for a rally tomorrow of Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other alt-right-ers. 1/22 American and Confederate flags are permitted at the rally. Nazi flags, unlike last year, are not. 2/22 John Bolton and other senior US national-security officials worked behind Trump’
Coming soon from E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin: Free Solo, in which Alex Honnold becomes the first person to climb Yosemite's El Capitan without a rope. From a National Geographic story about the achievement: It’s hard to overstate the physical and mental difficulties of a free
In a 38-31 vote, Argentina's senate rejects a bill to legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. 1/20 Behind the scenes on Rep. Chris Collins and Innate Immunotherapeutics, and how he roped in his family and colleagues to invest and, according to prosecutors, engage
The Silence Project records time-lapse videos of stunning natural sights, accompanied only by nature's ambient sounds.
It's the final month in the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge. Novelist Emma Straub and our own Nozlee Samadzadeh wrap up their discussion of Kudos by Rachel Cusk.
Tuesday night ended with Republican Troy Balderson narrowly ahead in an Ohio district that Trump previously won by 11 points. 1/23 CNN says it’s time for Republicans to panic about the House. 2/23 The Democrats’ most liberal candidates fared poorly in almost every closely watched race across
