Science & Nature

2+ hour, 47+ min ago   (176+ words) Deep within my heart,there is a black hole. Is it the final, withered remnantof shattered dreams? Or a graveyard of light,collapsing in on itself,unable to bear the weightof expectations I placed upon myself? Trapped in its colossal…...

3+ hour, 46+ min ago   (106+ words) The forest has forgotten its clocks. Snow settles on branches that have learned the art of waiting. Somewhere beneath the white, and the earth keeps its promises without saying a word. A narrow path disappears not to arrive anywhere, what…...

12+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1913+ words) This battle was old school human-wave. How do I know? I’ve read one too many War novels. I was not one for the Army. I was one of the “Torchy” types, as my squadron seniors in Academy called me. Torchy:…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (390+ words) So why is the celebrated Minneapolis author so hopeful? 8:59 AM CDT on October 7, 2026 On an overcast, mid-70s morning in August, one monarch butterfly flits through an incongruous floral fusion of crimson roses and sunny black-eyed Susans on the boulevard in front…...

1+ day, 9+ min ago   (561+ words) When Disney announced at D23 that the Yeti inside Expedition Everest was finally getting fixed, it was news Disney fans had been waiting about 20 years to hear. Now Disney Legend Joe Rohde, the Imagineer who led the creation of Disney’s Animal…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (711+ words) Covering the Cold War to the present, Stephanie Slade’s new book is a fascinating historical tour through the ideological alliance between conservatives, libertarians and other right-center movements. She also argues this “fusionism” has been steadily fading away since President Reagan…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (489+ words) As Queen Camilla joins the tributes to Jeffrey Archer, why his sudden death at 86 has robbed us of a larger-than-life figure whose extraordinary story was well suited to his bestselling novels IT IS somehow fitting that the great literary and…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (107+ words) Written by Iris Murdoch Buying books using the ‘Buy the book’ links helps support our charitable work. Iris Murdoch turns her microscopic gaze on vanity and obsession in her 19th novel, which won the Booker Prize in 1978 Listen to Iris Murch…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (227+ words) This new trend is a big question mark–enter the plastic bag. Yes, the kind you may need to pay a small fee to acquire when you’re out grocery shopping. It’s popping up across genres and age ranges. Bagging it…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (219+ words) The Local Girl Fall for the Book: Beck Environmental Lecture: Elizabeth Rusch at George Mason University Center for the Arts in Fairfax Elizabeth Rusch tells the compelling story of an ongoing landmark legal case that maintains all citizens have a…...