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The eight-day journey was made possible by the careful deconstruction of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo spacecraft. At one point, the spacecraft even completely rearranged itself mid-flight. The final landing on the lunar surface was made possible by a…
Would you look at your phone less if your notifications were available without it, hovering in the air just a few feet away from your face? Would you buy a pair of glasses, even if you don’t actually need glasses…
Amy Winehouse is going on tour, as reported by Reuters last week. A hologram of the artist, who died in July 2011, will tour North America next year. Her father Mitch Winehouse is the primary caretaker of her estate, and…
Those poems that you notice on New York City subways and buses first appeared in 1992, as part of a collaboration between the Poetry Society of America and the M.T.A.’s New York City Transit Authority. This year was one of…
On October 1st, Charles Aznavour, the world’s last and greatest troubadour, was found dead in the bath at his home in the small village of Mouriès, in southern France. He was ninety-four. Aznavour’s career spanned nearly eighty years, at least…
It would be an error to imagine that the weather in London might ever be described as reliably beautiful, but, over the past few weeks, the heat wave that gripped the city during the summer has subsided into what has…
