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The story seems absurd: a British lawyer set out to clean up a polluted river, collected more than 200 bags of trash, and now could face legal action for removing waste without permission
A lawyer who removed 200 bags of trash from a London river now faces legal warnings over environmental damage concerns.
In 1955, she was one of only four African American female employees at the laboratory, and decades later, her work would help pave the way for the Cassini mission to Saturn
It has survived wars, storms, and more than a millennium of history, but Robin Hood’s most famous tree may have finally lost its last battle
Psychology tells us that the loneliest part of growing old isn’t being alone, but realizing that some friendships disappear as soon as you stop nurturing them, and understanding that they were never based on mutual care, but on your willingness to do all the emotional work
Almost 20 years after his death, Elliott Smith, born on August 6, 1969, has just received a very unusual tribute: a minor planet discovered in 2014 will officially bear his name in the solar system
A 6-year-old boy was looking for rocks for a school arts-and-crafts project in Norway when he stumbled upon an iron sword that had been buried for about 1,200 years
A camera captured Mary, a two-year-old Tasmanian devil, roaming the park at 4 a.m. She had escaped with an “unusually large” leap and survived for 15 days amid residential neighborhoods, thickets, cars, and real dangers
A NASA astronaut filmed the southern lights swirling like neon paint, turning orbital night into a free light show
Liam Neeson, 73: “It’s funny, but there comes a point in life when you think you’ve made all the friends you were ever going to make”
- Carl Rogers, a humanistic psychologist: “When a person discovers that they are loved for who they are, and not for who they pretend to be, they will feel that they deserve respect and love”
- Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet: “Once a man has loved a woman, he will do anything for her—except continue to love her…” A timeless lesson on how love and relationships change over time
- Immanuel Kant, philosopher: “If you punish a child for misbehaving and reward him for behaving well, he will do the right thing solely for the reward…” — Why morality should not depend on rewards or fear
- Psychology suggests the generation that ate cereal for dinner and walked home in the dark did not just survive neglect, but built an emotional operating system around self-reliance
- Psychology claims people who always drink their coffee black aren’t just purists, and what’s interesting is how that preference can line up with a need for unfiltered reality far beyond the mug
- The federal agency fighting bed bugs keeps getting infested in its own building, and what is absurd is that workers still are not allowed to telecommute
- Parents in their 70s and their adult kids in their 40s and 50s keep describing the same thing from opposite sides, and what’s unsettling is realizing the adult child has been carrying the parent’s voice for decades
- Architects recommend sticking aluminum foil to the wall for 24 to 48 hours, and the trick can reveal whether your home has a hidden leak or only condensation
- Albert Einstein, scientist: “Don’t try to become a man of success, but rather a man of character”
- Psychology says many adults who keep everyone at a distance aren’t loners by nature, and what’s hard is that they learned early that openness invited harm so they built a life that stays sealed off
- Psychology tells us that the loneliest part of growing old isn’t being alone, but realizing that some friendships disappear as soon as you stop nurturing them, and understanding that they were never based on mutual care, but on your willingness to do all the emotional work
- In São Paulo, a building that looks like an upside-down ship became an icon: the Hotel Unique, about 276 feet tall with round windows and exposed concrete, turned a weird shape into a city symbol
- Albert Einstein, a scientist, speaking to his son in 1900: “Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance, you have to keep moving”
- Psychology asserts that children of the 1960s and 1970s did not become emotionally strong thanks to better parenting, but because they grew up with enough daily neglect to learn to self-regulate, solve problems on their own, and develop a resilience that modern comforts make difficult to build
- They bought a chalet for $164,000 on a 32,300-square feet plot above sea level: Jozef and Jenny’s story seems idyllic… until the fine print about the location emerges
- Two hikers spot a “strange” wall and end up finding gold coins dating from 1808 to 1915… and the hiding place looks like an “emergency plan”
- A group of hedgehogs is called something so fitting that even the name explains the animal: why English calls them a ‘prickle’
- If you see parakeets flying near your home, it is not just a noisy visit: the birds may be telling you something about the local environment
- If you hear birds singing around your home during the day, it may not be background noise but a sign that something healthy is happening around your garden
- From 2028, dogs and cats entering the European Union will need prior identification, and the rule could change how millions of pets cross borders
- Sticking aluminum foil to the wall may look absurd, but contractors use it to reveal whether hidden moisture is coming from your house or from the air
- Do not be fooled by Jurassic Park: a new look at dinosaurs suggests the animals we imagine may be much stranger than the monsters cinema gave us
- Psychology suggests the generation that ate cereal for dinner and walked home in the dark did not just survive neglect, but built an emotional operating system around self-reliance
- Psychology suggests that people who reach the age of 60 without close friends are not necessarily antisocial or cold; in many cases, they have spent so many years supporting others that friendship ceased to feel like a refuge and began to feel like just another obligation
- Architects recommend putting aluminum foil on walls, and the simple method can reveal in days whether a damp patch is a leak or just trapped condensation
- The piece of clothing you should never wear twice is not a shirt or jeans, but the one almost everyone reuses without thinking