Thatched houses have existed in Japan for at least 5,000 years, but today they’re found only in a handful of villages across the country. As a young man, Haruo Nishio, now 51, moved to rural Miyama in the mountains north of Kyoto to become a thatcher.
The Washington Post examined autopsy and postmortem reports from nearly a hundred victims of mass shootings that involved an AR-15 style rifles.
Today, anti-ageing is often considered a dirty term, with society increasingly telling women to embrace their grey hairs and wrinkles; that age is something to be celebrated and flaunted. At surface level, it would appear we’ve come a long way over the years.
It seems inconceivable — that everything we know, everything we love, everything that ever was and ever will be, banged into being from the singularity, and out of that near-nothingness arose mitochondria and music and “the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness o
When I was growing up in the 1970s, I would not have given much thought to fashion for the over-50s and what I might wear if I had the good fortune to live to see such obscene decrepitude.
When it comes to articles that completely miss the mark, you can’t go past Josh Butler’s piece on the Gospel Coalition website, where he attempts to explain why former Christians walk away from their faith.
The sentence contains the entirety of literature in miniature. Individual words hold their power through context and placement; phrases carry their meaning through juxtaposition. Paragraphs are often too thick to memorize: a mindful, more than the mouth can manage.
On December 18, 1993, Haley Alyse Oliveaux was found facedown in the bathtub of an apartment in West Monroe, Louisiana, while in the care of her mother’s boyfriend.
An investigation by conservationists has found evidence that deep-seabed mining of rare minerals could cause “extensive and irreversible” damage to the planet.
Climate change is a solvable problem. We know what we need to do. Carbon in the atmosphere needs to decline from 417 ppm, which it is today, to 350 ppm, closer to what it was at the dawn of the industrial revolution.
As India overtakes China as the world's most populous nation, there is a crisis of population in parts of the country where fertility has fallen below replacement levels and migration has left behind ghost towns inhabited by the elderly.
By the time life was brought to perfection, old age had arrived. The last costly touch was a small bathtub, installed after a lot of reflection and searching.
To explain how the pandemic placed a rocket booster on luxury-watch sales, the industry has embraced an overarching narrative: Stuck at home, watch-world aficionados and newcomers alike suddenly had nothing but time—and extra cash—to indulge their passion.
The notion of the Big Bang goes back nearly 100 years, when the first evidence for the expanding Universe appeared. If the Universe is expanding and cooling today, that implies a past that was smaller, denser, and hotter.
Unions are protesting low wages and “unfair” working conditions during the three-day strike. Los Angeles public school staff — including bus drivers, custodians, and cafeteria workers — have commenced a three-day strike over wages and labor practices they say are unfair.
Researchers have believed for some time that certain personality types are more closely associated with finding satisfaction in life than others. A recent study explores for the first time whether these associations are linked to particular life phases or if they hold true at all ages.
A bare white room, smelling of nothing. Nervous coughs going around like the wave.
First, the weakness: I can be a little impatient, maybe even a little bit lazy. I'll follow through on my word, but sometimes my more complicated plans wind up abandoned. But, the powerful strength? It's that I've developed radar for simple things you can do in order to improve your life.
Today the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing what may become a pivotal document of human progress—or lack thereof, if we don’t heed its warnings.
Let’s get this part out in front: Yes, translated works are devastatingly underrepresented in the English-language literary and publishing ecosystems, especially works from non-Western and diasporic and Indigenous languages, especially works authored by women and nonbinary writers.
On March 7, Memorial University of Newfoundland president Vianne Timmons published a statement about her ancestry. In it, she wrote, “I am not Mi’kmaq. I am not Indigenous. I did not grow up in an Indigenous community.” But this wasn’t a confession or an apology.
So many of us are unhappy with our current employers that some clever person coined the term “rage applying” to describe the newfound zeal for searching for a new gig.
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California is no stranger to big swings between wet and dry weather.
Talking about pornography is uncomfortable; at times it scarcely seems possible. There are many barriers to having substantive and useful discussions. Sometimes literally so, with spam filters blocking any email that even mentions the word from reaching its destination.