A bird eye's view of Hong Kong's stability and prosperity.
For the next time wanderlust strikes: some mesmerizing, even stupefying views of contemporary Hong Kong, by Mariana Bisti (who also makes art with fans and markers).
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The ocean doesn't care about New Yorkers' stress levels.
A designer, a professor, a neuro-oncologist, and an artist explain why they brave congested traffic, thick rubber, and freezing cold water to spend time in the ocean around New York City.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
House Republicans passed their tax overhaul yesterday; the Senate will reconvene after Thanksgiving to vote on its own package. 1/23 Under the new GOP plan, the only clear winners are businesses. While many Americans will receive tax cuts, about 13 million middle-class households will pay more. And by
A podcast producer is crying right now.
More women say Roy Moore made unwanted overtures when they were young. He pulled one of them out of trigonometry class to ask her on a date. 1/17 Republicans who believe the women accusing Moore still won't talk about the women who accuse Mr. Trump. (They just
How to revolutionize health care with four nickels.
Introducing "the Paperfuge," a 20-cent centrifuge that can spin biological samples at thousands of revolutions per minute. Inspired by the design of a millennia-old toy, the Paperfuge is a hand-powered centrifuge made of paper, string, and plastic that can whip biological samples in circles at
The birth of cuttlefish is actually beautiful.
We really didn't expect this to be so lovely: cephalopods (squid and cuttlefish) coming to life with microscopy footage. The short video shows the cephalopods transforming from embryos (when they develop in egg capsules) to hatchlings that emerge with the resplendent, colour-shifting skin they use for communication
Death by taxes.
In an apparent coup, Zimbabwe's military has taken custody of President Robert Mugabe, the country's only leader since its independence in 1980. The takeover seems to be in response to Mugabe's removal of the vice president, a move that elevated his wife, Grace Mugabe,
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Bob Corker convenes a Senate hearing to examine Trump's authority to deploy nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Sessions may investigate his boss's list of "conservative concerns"—what some call "a fog machine." 1/20 The Kremlin turns its disinformation machine to Catalonia's
The man who lives in 1946.
From this BBC Radio 4 segment, we learned about Ben Sansum, who's enjoying life—in his thirties—in as much of the 1940s as he can recreate, Facebook be damned.