NASA Is Crashing a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid. Here’s How to Watch the Launch.
NASA is about to launch a spacecraft with one simple mission: Smash into an asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour. The mission, the Double Asteroid …
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In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured
“White on White” is a painting by the avant-garde Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, who died in 1935, and it is un-Googleable. You can look it up …
Thanksgiving in a Town Built on Lederhosen and Limitless Meals
FRANKENMUTH, Mich. — No matter the season, every all-you-can-eat dinner here draws from the palette of Thanksgiving: creamy drifts of mashed …
Why an NPR Quiz Show Panelist Loves Her ‘Messy Apartment’
Faith Salie — a panelist on the NPR quiz show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!,” a contributor to “CBS News Sunday Morning,” a podcast host (her …
‘Tinderbox,’ an Oral History of HBO From Modest Beginnings to TV Revolution
There’s enough animosity, jealousy, score-settling and killing gossip in “Tinderbox,” James Andrew Miller’s mountainous new oral history of HBO …
‘The Private Life of William Shakespeare’
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREBy Lena Cowen Orlin Much of the evidence documenting Shakespeare’s life wasn’t discovered until the late …
Italy Frees Convicted Killer of U.K. Student Meredith Kercher
ROME — An Italian judge on Tuesday released the only person definitively convicted of the 2007 murder of the 21-year-old British student Meredith …
The Hubble Telescope Checks In With the Most Distant Planets
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows on Jupiter. All you need is the keen eyesight of the Hubble Space Telescope for a …
It’s Never Too Late to Pick Up Your Life and Move to Italy
It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. In 1978, when Holly …
Bulgaria Bus Crash Kills at Least 45
At least 45 people died when a bus caught fire and crashed on a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials and local news outlets said …