What makes a good red-carpet host?
On the red carpet before the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, YouTube star and former late-night host Lilly Singh dutifully performed the...
Why is Nike betting big on fashionista Kim Kardashian?
NikeSkims will focus on women’s apparel, with plans to add footwear and accessories in the future
Anti-immigrant: South Africa is a warning
Despite the panic in rich countries over the arrival of people fleeing poor, war-tossed nations, most people from the global south who migrate don’t...
Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak
Now, an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists has found that the intricate songs of humpback whales, which can spread rapidly from one...
Making Amends: China’s Leader Embraces Business, even Jack Ma. But...
While the leader's outreach was filled with hopeful symbolism, it was not clear that it would result in substantive change for companies or help...
Alarming Patterns: Not Quite a Unified Theory of Trumpism
Strongmen seek power political power but also other currencies, including wealth and a glittering place in history through a pattern of behavior...
Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.
In the meantime, a group of chisel-toothed mammals — renowned for their engineering skills and work ethic, and unencumbered by bureaucracy — decided...
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same
Wolfe-Simon had, unfortunately, not found aliens, nor had she ever said she did. But she had found a terrestrial organism that was behaving unlike any...