Usually when you’re booking a stay through Airbnb or Vrbo, you’re just looking for a home base to rest and plot out some local adventures. But sometimes, there’s a listing so unique, like a house in the shape of a Dali-esque seashell, it becomes the destination itself. Staying at one of these listings is a…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
If you are one of the millions of people who saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opening weekend, then you probably noticed that certain members of the Dora Milaje appeared in upgraded blue-plumed amphibious gear. In the Black Panther sequel, Shuri built “Midnight Angel” armor for “the new army,” and events in the film allowed Okoye…
Americans watched their country’s first moonwalk from small, fuzzy black-and-white television sets. For the generations that followed, it might come as a surprise that, even with all of the modern advancements in technology, the United States lost its lunar-landing capability half a century ago. NASA actually hasn’t had a rocket powerful enough to send astronauts…
Nvidia has released a fix for problems with its new RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards experiencing a black (or blank) screen on bootup in some unfortunate cases. This isn’t quite as bad as it first sounds, as the operating system will still load okay and produce the desktop on your display as normal,…
As we roll into the Black Friday deals season, one of the most sought after items year after year is the Apple MacBook Air. It’s not hard to see why, obviously. It’s a gorgeous computer with excellent performance, it’s lightweight and ultraportable, and for most consumers, it’s the kind of device that “just works.” It…
The LATAM Airlines plane collided with a firetruck while taking off from Lima airport. Christian Sierra/Getty Images Two firefighters were killed after a plane crashed into their truck during take-off at Peru airport. All passengers and crew survived the crash on Friday. The local prosecutor’s office is investigating the crash as potential manslaughter. A LATAM…
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on November 5, 2022. Win McNamee/Getty Images Evangelical Christians who supported former President Donald Trump appear to be turning on him. “He does not have the support of the evangelicals that he did,” said Christian commentator Mike Evans. Robert Jeffress, who was on Trump’s…
Renters are finally getting some relief in 11 cities across the country. saulgranda/Getty Images Rents dropped nationally by 0.9% from September to October, according to a Redfin report. Milwaukee saw rents plunge by double-digit percentages from last year. While there isn’t relief for renters everywhere, the data is a good sign. For weary renters across…
Screenshot from Caroline Ellison’s Twitter, @carolinecapital Caroline Ellison was the CEO of Alameda Research, a trading firm launched by Sam Bankman-Fried. She oversaw many of the risky bets Alameda took with FTX customers’ crypto tokens. Here is her background story. Over the past few weeks, a mushroom of secrets about the inner workings of Sam…
Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon Doka Nason/American Bird Conservancy Scientists from the American Bird Conservancy have rediscovered a rare bird not documented since 1882. Researchers installed camera traps and said getting images of the bird was like “finding a unicorn.” The bird only lives on Ferguson Island, off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Scientists from the American…