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“Trophy Wives” Are Rare in Real Life
Most people marry someone who has a similar degree of attractiveness and success as they do
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Redskins’ Trademark Cancelled by U.S. Patent Office and This Time, It May Hold up in Court
The agency ruled against the NFL team, saying the name was “disparaging to Native Americans,” but an appeal is likely in the offing
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Londoners Are Fighting Back Against “Hostile Architecture”
From spikes in the ground to benches designed to be uncomfortable, hostile architecture is pushing already fringe groups further away from the public eye
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This Ten Year Old Has Already Graduated From High School in California
Words like “prodigy” and “genius” are often used to describe pre-teen Tanishq Abraham
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Pittsburgh Is Struggling to Maintain Its 45,454 Public Steps
The city budget isn’t enough to keep up with costly and logistically difficult repairs, so some stairways might come down
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See Samuel Beckett’s Doodles of James Joyce And Charlie Chaplin
The six-notebook handwritten manuscript has been in private hands since the 1960s
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Thousands of Lovers’ Locks Collapsed Part of an Overloaded Bridge in Paris
The trend affects bridges throughout Europe and in some places in the U.S., too
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Google Is Documenting the World’s Street Art
The Street Art Project already includes some 4,000 images of street art, some of which no longer exist
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Ikea’s trying to find out how we live, and started by telling us about our mornings
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In Maya Lin’s New Exhibition, a Singing Ring Contains the Sounds of Endangered Worlds
The Sound Ring represents places as diverse as California forests and the Indian Ocean
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Statistics Say That Brazil Will Probably Win the World Cup
Analyzing players’ transfer values to calculate a team’s overall market value, however, predicts that Spain will win
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Katniss Everdeen’s Three-Fingered Salute Has Become a Real-Life Symbol of Resistance in Thailand
In “The Hunger Games,” a three-fingered salute indicated resistance. Now it does in Thailand, too.
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Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson Is Going to Live Underwater for 31 Days
Fabien Cousteau will honor his grandfather’s legacy for over a month
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Daughters Who See Their Dad Doing Chores Aspire to Less Stereotypically Female Careers
Seeing a man do the household chores seems to reassure girls that it’s no longer 1950
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The National Spelling Bee Ended With a Tie For the First Time in Half a Century
One champion later said he and his co-winner were competing against the dictionary, not each other
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Visit a Glass Labyrinth in Kansas City
The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., has a new interactive sculpture in the sculpture garden
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Maya Angelou Was One of the Most Influential Voices of Our Time
Maya Angelou was poet, novelist, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker, dancer and civil rights activist
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NASA’s Art Contest Reveals How Kids See the Future
NASA’s Langley Research Center asked students from Virginia to participate in an art contest
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Take a Look at How Disney Got Investors for Disneyland
Boing Boing was given the original Disneyland prospectus, and now you can see it
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Larry Kramer Waited 30 Years for His Play About the Early Years of AIDS to Be a Film
Kramer hopes “The Normal Heart” inspires a new generation of activists
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