Five Types of Trees You Can Safely Plant Close to Your HouseIf you would like to plant a tree in your yard but you’re not sure that you have the space because you've heard it's a bad idea to plant a tree too close to your house, you’re in luck.
How were Egypt’s pyramids built? The mystery may finally be solvedPeople have long been fascinated with how the Egyptian pyramids were built, floating theories from the construction of expansive causeways to extraterrestrial assistance.
The beauty of concreteOne of the unifying features of architectural styles before the twentieth century is the presence of ornament. We speak of architectural elements as ornamental inasmuch as they are shaped by aesthetic considerations rather than structural or functional ones.
When the C.I.A. Turned Writers Into OperativesBenjamen Walker, the creator and host of “Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything,” is a pod-maker of the mad-scientist variety: he cooks up projects using his own zeal, research, and audacious notions, then unleashes the results on the world.
Why Do People Hate People?Biases against certain groups of people can escalate into acts of violence if left unchecked.
A Martini Tour of New York CityThree years ago, as the pandemic was loosening its grip on the world, and as I started to recover from the aftereffects of a botched childhood circumcision that had returned to haunt me in middle age, I rediscovered the bottomless pleasure of a cold dry Martini.
Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.This story contains a racial slur. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.
Israel’s other warIsrael and Hezbollah are trying to keep their fighting contained. But the conflict keeps escalating.
Forget pull-ups — you just need a set of dumbbells and 5 exercises to build your back and bicepsTry these five dumbbell exercises as a standalone exercise routine, or add them to your resistance training program. You can build your back and biceps using a medium-heavy set of weights like the best adjustable dumbbells and progressively overload your muscles using weight, volume, or both.
The end is nigh and Labour MPs just want to have fun. At the Tories’ expenseThe end can’t come too soon. Not just for the Tory backbenchers, but for cabinet ministers too. They sit in the Commons with resigned expressions, checking their phones for potentially lucrative job offers. No one can remember the last time Penny Mordaunt was seen with a smile on her face.
Read an Excerpt from Stephen King’s You Like It DarkerMy father—my famous father—died in 2023, at the age of ninety. Two years before he passed, he got an email from a freelance writer named Ruth Crawford asking him for an interview.
How the world wastes hundreds of billions of meals in a year, in three chartsA billion meals are wasted every single day, according to a recent report from the United Nations. And that’s a conservative estimate. It’s not just food down the drain, but money, too.
The View Within Israel Turns BleakIt was the pictures of Palestinians swimming and sunning at a Gaza beach that rubbed Yehuda Shlezinger, an Israeli journalist, the wrong way. Stylish in round red glasses and a faint scruff of beard, Mr.
Looking at Art with Peter SchjeldahlWhen I heard Peter utter this sentence at a dinner party, I knew I was in over my head. Peter, at these dinners, where no one was shy with opinions, would sit tolerantly, head tucked in, allowing us all to blather until our balloon heads had deflated.
Forget sit-ups — I tried this 12-minute standing dumbbell workout to blast my absWhile sit-ups and crunches are an effective way to train your core, you can work your abs just as well with a standing abs workout, and this 12-minute dumbbell workout not only hits the core but also the major muscle groups in your upper and lower body.