How a Maze of Mysterious Apps Tricked Me Into Saving Money
I don’t really remember how I first heard about the digital robot that would save money for me automatically, but the idea sounded so perfect I signed up immediately. At...
There’s a planet exactly where Star Trek said Vulcan should be
Astrophysicists just found a planet orbiting the star HD 26965, 16 light years away from Earth. Finding exoplanets is always fun, and the fact that this one is in the...
Christie’s Top Lots Flop at Auction, Raising Speculation About Market Bubble
Pablo Picasso’s “La Lampe,” which sold for $29,562,500 (all images courtesy Christie’s) After a surprisingly busy summer in the auction world, experts predicted that the autumn months would bring an...
The Most Extreme Railway in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z34VLW-uroQ At 430 miles long, the formidable Mauritania Railway, nicknamed the “backbone of the Sahara,” boasts some of the longest and heaviest trains in the world. Its journey begins in...
A Mural Reimagines the History of a 19th-Century Tongan Club
Still from Walking Backwards into the Future (courtesy Anna Weinreich) The 19th-century clubs from Tonga now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were created as narrative objects,...
Ron English Plans to Whitewash a $730,000 Banksy, and then Sell It
Banksy’s “Slave Labour (Bunting Boy)” mural as it appeared in May 2012 (via Wikimedia Commons) American street artist Ron English has announced his plans to stage a modern take on Robert Rauschenberg’s...