Here’s Bhutan: It’s near Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, China and India. It’s extremely insular, and tourism only even began in 1974. To this day, you need to enter with some type of group; just booking a flight to Bhutan isn’t something one… Continue Reading
This is probably one of the more f’ed up stories of the year. You can read about all over the Internet, although the basic story is as follows: 14 year-old student murders 24 year-old teacher, presumably with a box cutter.… Continue Reading
I looked at the CBS Bowl Projections this morning, as I tend to do every Sunday morning. Everything seemed pretty logical in the wake of Baylor’s loss — Alabama vs. FSU was still the BCS Championship, and you had Oklahoma… Continue Reading
This story about the oldest wine cellar ever discovered has been making the rounds: essentially, it was discovered in a palace dating back to 1700 BC, and it once held 500 gallons of wine, which is enough to fill a seven-person… Continue Reading
Esquire did a timeline of the top-selling Christmas toys by year. If you click through it, you’ll notice three main themes: first, Elmo toys have won the entire market about three or four times; that’s probably best explained in this article. Second,… Continue Reading
The trailer for Season 3 of Girls (which comes back January 12th) is on YouTube today / embedded above, and cultural responses have rolled in from all corners of the Internet: for example, The Wire — which used to be called The Atlantic Wire, but… Continue Reading
Chess can be a confusing sport in terms of the logistics of (a) how to play it and (b) how it’s internationally organized. Magnus Carlsen, for example, has seemingly been on the scene forever. He became a grandmaster at 13, he’s… Continue Reading
Above, that is Denise Link; she’s the Board Chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and at the end of last month, she won the Urban Educator of the Year award from the Council of Great City Schools. When this was… Continue Reading