Let’s put some numbers behind a trend you might have already observed for yourself: There are simply a mind-boggling number of new hotels opening all around the world. In your hometown, the next town ...

For many years, physics studies focused on two main types of magnetism, namely ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The ...

Earth Day is held on April 22 with this year’s being the 55th anniversary of the first in 1970. It began during a time of great public protest in this country due to the Vietnam War, the Nixon ...

Played with life-of-the-party aplomb by D.C. native Edwina Findley, White House butler Sheila Cannon has a penchant for vodka shots, red lipstick and a perfectly deployed four-letter-word. Sure, her ...

Back just now from an Irish economic blarney weblog. GreaterO’Toole, run by one Gareth Tarner and his Blarg Dowgs. On this note not so far are we from the Irish situation of many decades? 1. A ...

Best Dance Songs of All Time: 100 classic dance music songs, from house to techno to electronic to dubstep to disco to ...

I found myself at The Plettenberg, the late Liz McGrath’s beloved hotel in the famous Garden Route town, for the first time in more than 10 years. Being there took me back, and I decided to drop her a ...

Black don’t crack.” “It is not that racist ideas and largely fake data are present in the literature,” Newman would later ...

Black don’t crack.” “It is not that racist ideas and largely fake data are present in the literature,” Newman would later write, “although these are extremely serious problems, but that such issues ...

Dots and boxes is a 2-player combinatorial strategy game. The game starts with an empty grid of dots. Players take turns joining two horizontally or vertically adjacent dots by a line. A player who ...

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force is enormous — it makes up nearly 70 ...