Jose Andres is the winner of two James Beard awards. He’s also the founder of World Central Kitchen. His organization provides meals to people in emergency situations. In September 2019 he and his team worked in the Bahamas during Hurricane…
On October 13, 2019, Simone Biles won her 25th World Championship medal. That’s the most of any gymnast, ever. She took home five gold medals from the most recent championship in Germany. Biles performs some very difficult moves. She even has…
Takashi Murakami creates colorful art. In 2019 he created sneakers. His design influence came from the series Mobile Suit Gundam. Murakami has worked with designers before. But this time he handled the entire process. The sneakers are dark green with…
Charlotte Perriand worked with famous architect Le Corbusier in the early 1900s. She was one of few female architects and considered ahead of her time. She died in 1999. Perriand is being honored 20 years later. An entire building is…
Hurricane Michael ripped through the Florida Panhandle in October 2018, uprooting trees on the site of a nineteenth-century fort south of Tallahassee. Tangled in the roots of the trees were dozens of buried treasures: gun flints, ammunition, pipe fragments, and…
An exhaustive U.N. report outlines the massive impact human activity has had on the natural world, suggesting that one million plant and animal species could face extinction within decades without major changes. What’s behind the crisis? A number of factors,…
Kick after kick after kick. For 18 years, NFL player Shane Lechler dominated the punting game, demonstrating excellent technique, mental toughness, and incredible consistency. His 47.6 yards-per-kick average over 18 seasons is the best in NFL history. Lechler, who officially…
A recent study revealed that a 160,000-year-old human jawbone discovered in 1980 in a Tibetan cave came from the Denisovans, a human species related to the Neanderthals. This find on the Tibetan Plateau—also known as the “roof of the world”—suggests…
Marine scientists who studied crustaceans from three Pacific Ocean trenches, including the Mariana Trench, have discovered the depth of the influence of human activity on ocean ecosystems. Shrimp-like amphipods feeding at the bottom of the trenches were found to have…
From April 26 through May 5, 2019, Cyclone Fani pummeled coastal areas of the Indian state of Odisha, lingering longer than any tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. For 11 days, the storm raged—even as it made landfall—bringing battering…