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Saab Reinvents Air Traffic Control With a Digital Panorama
With Saab’s new digital panorama, the local air traffic controller may soon go the way of the technical support specialist
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Home of the heart-shaped tub, the Pennsylvania mountains once rivaled Niagara Falls as a honeymoon destination
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The Fantastic Gliding Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus was as aerodynamic as a brick, but one writer thought the prickly dinosaur used its huge plates for gliding
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The Birth of Non-Alcoholic Ketchup
One of the first recipes for ketchup published in the United States called for “love apples”
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What Sunken Sandwiches Tell Us About the Future of Food Storage
The sinking of the Alvin was an accident that demonstrated the promise of a novel food preservation method
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Five Quintessential Cajun Foods
If you’ve only had the pleasure of eating a bowl of gumbo, queue up some Beausoleil and prepare some of these specialties
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The 86-Year-Old Company that Still Designs Your In-Flight Experience
Seattle-based design firm Teague has designed every Boeing aircraft interior since the 1940s, from the post-WWII Stratocruiser to the 2009 Dreamliner
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An almost certainly poached tyrannosaur skeleton kicks off a legal dispute over Mongolia’s fossil heritage
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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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Clarence Birdseye, the Man Behind Modern Frozen Food
I spoke with author Mark Kurlansky about the quirky inventor who changed the way we eat
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Edible Dictionary: Microbial Mothers
Why are the lees at the bottom of a wine or cider barrel named for your female parent?
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Danger and Romance from HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn”
A new made-for-television movie airing May 28 recounts the stormy love affair between the writer and the war correspondent
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The Demise of a Wooden Dinosaur
A Victorian-era naturalist thought he’d found a new kind of dinosaur, and he threw a fit when other naturalists disagreed
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Was America Named for a Pickle Dealer?
Amerigo Vespucci wasn’t entirely heroic—just ask Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Could the design of a Brita filter help us with controlling how much water we waste?
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Grueling Travel through Beautiful Places: the Madness of Extreme Races
The Crocodile Trophy mountain biking race is off-road, meaning gravel, rocks, ruts, puddles, dust and lots of crashing
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All Aboard the Beijing-Lhasa Express
The writer casts aside concerns about comfort and political correctness to take the rail trip of a lifetime
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The Legumes of War: How Peanuts Fed the Confederacy
Food shortages were a problem for both military and civilians. But even in these hard times, people could find relief in peanuts
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Design for a Water-Scarce Future
Design strategies for arid regions go back centuries, but in the face of climate change, drylands design is a whole new ballgame
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