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The ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse You Might See Sunday
For the first time in 18 years, a solar eclipse will be visible in the continental United States
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Free Beer in the Dordogne Valley: Come and Find It!
These beers should last for several hot summers and cold winters. Where exactly are they hidden? Here are the directions
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Curious about the middle ground between fresh and rotten? These four books tell you how to preserve the fleeting tastes of spring
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The key take-home lesson: Never anger anyone with a thagomizer
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There’s No Place Like Naples for Pizza
Forget Chicago deep-dish, Roman pizza bianca and Domino’s. For the best, most authentic pizza, go to Napoli
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Chickens Dressed Like Napoleon, Einstein and Other Historical Figures
They came, they clucked and they conquered. Get the story behind these absurd portraits and how they came to be
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Events May 18-20: Identities in Motion, Metro Mambo, Surfboard Carving
Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, do the Mambo at the National Museum of African Art and witness Tom Stone carve a traditional Hawiian surfboard
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A More Efficient Airline Meal Tray
A recent innovation in the design of the airline meal tray has resulted in massive savings. Maybe the next innovation should focus on the actual food
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Mark Kurlansky on the Cultural Importance of Salt
Salt, it may be useful to know, cures a zombie
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New technology is allowing the paralyzed to walk and the blind to see. And it’s becoming a smaller leap from repairing bodies to enhancing them
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A new study indicates that a surprisingly high number of us are prone to sleepwalking. Should you wake a sleepwalker?
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Fragmentary Clue Reveals Australia’s First Ceratosaur
An isolated bone shows that Cretaceous Australia had an even richer mix of predatory dinosaurs
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Help the Homeless? There’s an App for That
Two doctors in Boston may have found a way to identify which homeless people are most in need of urgent medical care
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For the Love of Film Blogathon III: The White Shadow and Streaming Restored Films Online
Casablanca streaming live on Facebook tonight and read about the opportunity to view a recently restored version of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s first films
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What a Physics Student Can Teach Us About How Visitors Walk Through a Museum
By sketching the movements of people at the Cleveland Art Museum, Andrew Oriani laid the groundwork for some deep insights into how art is appreciated
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Past and Present Clash in Ai WeiWei’s “Fragments”
“Fragments,” the second of three Ai WeiWei exhibitions this year, opens at the Sackler Gallery
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Sacrifice Amid the Ice: Facing Facts on the Scott Expedition
Captain Lawrence Oates wrote that if Robert Scott’s team didn’t win the race to the South Pole, “we shall come home with our tails between our legs”
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