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When Sophia Mittman was 10 years old, she wanted to be an artist. But instead of using paint, she preferred the mud in her backyard. She sculpted it into pots and bowls like the ones she had seen at the archaeological museums, transforming the earthly material into something beautiful. Now an MIT senior studying materials science and engineering, Mittman seeks modern applications for sustainable materials in ways that benefit the community around her. Growing up in San Diego, California,……
Chiyo Shibata stands in a small concert venue, her signature white towel tied around her head. Behind her is a group of taiko drummers and in front of her is a small table with a burner, milk, and salt. As the drumming begins, she takes a deep breath and begins to make cheese. This is not her usual workshop. “One of my goals is to introduce Japan through cheese,” Shibata says, as we settle at the counter of the……
When Nintendo debuted the Game Boy in 1989, it revolutionized the gaming industry. Gamers were no longer restricted to staying home or visiting an arcade to play video games. They now had the freedom to take their favorite game anywhere they wanted. This new level of portability meant that the handheld system needed to be durable to survive whatever damage it may encounter. While the manufacturers in Japan may have prided themselves on how tough the Game Boy was,……
Nick Benson, Dave Honan, and Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren all grew up under flight paths. For some, living under a frequent parade of planes is a noisy, house-shaking, sleep-depriving nuisance. But for these three, it’s always been an endless source of fascination. Benson, a web developer from the Twin Cities, says that as a kid he stood in his backyard and watched the planes, leaning back for a longer glimpse—and sometimes just falling over. Honan lives in western Washington today but……
Life on Antarctica’s Cuverville Island can be harsh. Colonies of orange-billed gentoo penguins scale its often windy, snow-covered slopes, building nests for their young with small stones and pebbles they gather from the island’s rocky outcrops. Patches of moss and lichen grow sparingly, some of the few signs of flora on an otherwise barren land. But on one day in February, an unusually out-of-place sight appeared: a man sitting in a chair. “I’d never come across someone wanting to……
Almudena Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Cusco and over the years has expanded up to seven acres. Now more than 23,000 people are buried here, most in stacked crypts with shadowbox window displays created by the deceased’s families. Families pay annual rental fees to keep the bodies entombed. Each shadowbox is uniquely decorated, with toys, flowers, photos, mementos, and figurines displayed behind glass. Local schoolboys are paid by families to clean the metal surfaces of the tombs with lemon……
BERLIN — Germany’s president says his Polish counterpart suggested that they travel to Ukraine together with other leaders to show solidarity, but “that apparently wasn’t wanted in Kyiv.” President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s comments Tuesday, during a visit to Poland, came after German newspaper Bild quoted an unidentified Ukrainian diplomat as saying that he’s not welcome in Kyiv at the moment because he had close relations with Russia in the past. Steinmeier said Polish President Andrzej Duda had suggested that they…
The D-Day landings went down in history, but without a sufficient port to offload all the supplies for the entire Western Front onto, the invasion of Normandy would be short-lived. The answer to this problem was to build a temporary, but giant floating harbour of concrete and steel, named Mulberry Harbour. The United Kingdom got to work constructing the Mulberry Harbours before floating them across to France secretly just before D-Day. Two Mulberry Harbours (the first at Omaha Beach……
As she was looking for a camp last summer, Yabesra Ewnetu, who’d just finished eighth grade, found a reference to MIT’s FutureMakers Create-a-thon. Ewnetu had heard that it’s hard to detect bias in artificial intelligence because AI algorithms are so complex, but this didn’t make sense to her. “I was like, well, we’re the ones coding it, shouldn’t we be able to see what it’s doing and explain why?” She signed up for the six-week virtual FutureMakers program so……
Near the bustling center of Framingham, tucked away behind Route 9 in a small residential neighborhood, lies a small but important cemetery. Established in 1698, the Old Burying Ground Cemetery is older than the city itself which was incorporated in 1700. What makes this cemetery notable is that it’s the burying ground of 89 Revolutionary War veterans and one grave in particular is the resting place of an individual who made a distinguished impact on history. Peter Salem was……
This obscure monument records the capture of Mary Queen of Scots after the Battle of Carberry Hill. The location marks both a pivotal event in Scottish history and the moment Mary sacrificed her liberty for the love of her husband. Mary Stuart, better known as Mary, Queen of Scots, had become queen as an infant after her father, James V of Scotland, died. In 1565, she married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and had a son with him. But just two years……
Built by Antoni Gaudí for his patron Eusebi Güell, this singular building was Gaudí’s first major work and the beginning of a long-running collaboration between the two men, which resulted in some of the most noteworthy buildings in Barcelona. Güell, who made a great fortune during the industrial revolution in the late 19th century, wanted to build a large stately mansion in the heart of Barcelona. He acquired the houses adjacent to the one he had inherited from his……
Stephan Mantel was on a quest. As he disembarked from the third flight since leaving Amsterdam, the tropical heat enveloped him. He had arrived in Putussibau, in the heart of Borneo, Asia’s largest island. A local guide and two hired helpers joined him for an hour-long journey along tributaries of the Kapuas River. Their boat, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, sat so low that Mantel could trail his hand in the water. They docked and trekked deeper into……
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury was selected Monday to hear a long-anticipated libel lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accuses of falsely portraying him as a domestic abuser. Depp sued Heard over an op-ed piece she wrote in The Washington Post in 2018 in which Heard refers to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The article doesn’t mention Depp by name, but he says it clearly refers to allegations Heard…
