New Scientist2h
Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
Who Invented Pizza? The Delicious History of Pizza Pies
G rowing up 90 minutes north of Chicago, I first discovered deep dish pizza as a teenager. It was thick, rich, ooey gooey, ...
Philadelphia Tribune1d
Did You Know: National Inventors Day (Feb. 11)
Sarah Boone is one of the first Black women in U.S. history to receive a patent; she expanded on the original ironing board, ...
The Glass You Should Really Be Drinking Gin And Tonic Out Of
According to an expert, gin and tonic is best enjoyed when you're drinking from a specific type of glass. What glass is this, ...
Opinion
Anti-social climber – Frank McNally on the pioneering cat burglar Robert Augustus Delaney
By the time he was jailed again, in 1927, a judge at the Derby Assizes was upgrading him to be “the original cat burglar”. Which may not have been strictly true, since the Oxford Dictionary says the ...
The New Yorker9d
The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel
A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...
The Northern Echo15d
Girl, 14, who stabbed teachers previously took knife to school, court hears
A schoolgirl who stabbed two teachers had previously been expelled after taking a knife into school, a court has heard. Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, and a student, were injured in the attack at ...
the Westmorland Gazette15d
Girl, 14, who stabbed teachers previously took knife to school, court hears
A schoolgirl who stabbed two teachers had previously been expelled after taking a knife into school, a court has heard. Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, and a student, were injured in the attack at Ysgol ...