“Ouch! Leg hurts! Need a kiss.”We’ve been in rush-hour traffic for more than an hour now. This is just the latest trick my 2-year-old has employed to try to get me to pull over so she can get out of the car. Others have included “Get sick! Throw up,” “Go under the bridge” and “Get […]

Dogs rule, cats drool — or their owners do, anyway. At least that’s the conclusion we’re drawing from a new data set released by Facebook Research, in honor (or in contempt?) of International Cat Day. Full disclosure: Your author is an unabashed dog person who was bitten by the last cat she tried to pet. That […]

250,000-year-old tool was used to by humanto butcher a rhinoceros The watering hole would have glimmered in the scorching desert heat, drawing parched creatures from miles around. Wild horses and rhinoceros lapped at the pool’s edge; migrating ducks paddled across its surface. Just out of sight, the hunters lay in wait. Scientists can only imagine the […]

When Reginald Smith heard about a bridge club at his school, he thought he and his friends “would be building” — making model bridges or learning about construction. “But then I found out that it was cards,” he said late last month, standing outside a bustling ballroom at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington. […]

Young sunflowers follow the sun, their still-green buds arcing from east to west across the summer sky as dawn turns to noon turns to dusk. Each night they reverse their dance, swinging from west to east in order to be the first to see the sun when it crests over the horizon at daybreak. But […]

Bethel sharpshooter amazes, teaches ‘mere mortals’ the magic. Jerome Holt’s Benelli shotgun is in pieces on a table in his back field. A clay target, meanwhile, floats in the late afternoon sky, losing the battle with gravity. The plan here is preposterous: Jerome proposes to reassemble his shotgun and chamber a round in time to […]

On any hot August afternoon, if you step inside the sleek lobby of Auburn’s Hilton Garden Inn, you’ll be greeted by the friendly front desk staff. But you’re not here for a room; you’re off to the hotel’s cozy restaurant and lounge, which evoke a cool city vibe. In fact, it’s more metropolitan than you […]