Women’s Day in South Africa turns 70 with equality still out of reach — The 1956 march transformed women’s rights and political power, but millions still cannot fully enjoy those gains.
Judiciary Share New Song "Death Knell": Listen — In a few short weeks, Texan metallic hardcore heavyweights Judiciary will return with their new EP Stalagmite Angels. We’ve already posted the extremely fucking sick lead single “Wall Of Skulls,” and now they’ve got a new banger…
Weak Jobs Data Masked by Falling Unemployment — The US unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July while unemployment fell to 4.1%, a decline driven by fewer people participating in the labor force rather than stronger employment. Bloomberg News Economics Chief US Economist Anna Wong…
Which Cars Redeemed Themselves as Classics? — Caterpillars turn into butterflies. As humans mature, they tend to grow into the best version of themselves. Or so I’d like to think, because we see examples of “aging with grace” all around us. This even happens wit
This ’64 LeSabre Is a Burst of Buick Sunshine — I wasn’t looking for a car as I walked through the Syracuse Nationals in July 2022. But then I spotted a Camelot Rose 1962 Buick Skylark with an Arctic White hard top for sale. I was in love, but my mechanic husband wasn’t…
Toyota Adds Trailhunter Packages to 2027 Tundra and Sequoia — Toyota has announced a mid-cycle refresh for the 2027 Tundra pickup and the 2027 Sequoia full-size SUV. Alongside an updated exterior and more standard tech on the inside, both body-on-frame ‘Yotas get a…
Kuwaki wins tense play-off to lift Women's Open title — Watch Japan's Shiho Kuwaki beat beat Esther Henseleit in a two-hole play-off to win the 2026 Women's Open, her first major title.
Landmark Money for a Landshark Porsche — Last month in California, Broad Arrow held its third annual Porsche Air|Water Auction, where 84% of the 60 automotive lots on offer sold, for a $20 million afternoon. Approximately zero dollars of that total came from 928s, because the sle
Judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps — xAI filed a lawsuit a few days ago to prevent Minnesota's law banning 'nudify' apps from taking effect.
watched someone diagnose their car's check engine light by just listening to the engine tick.. turned out to be a fifty cent bolt loose in the heat shield. the pump when you realize you paid 120 bucks last month for the same thing 🔧
Inside the New Charger Super Bee’s 600-HP H.O. Inline-Six Engine — We’re always excited when an automaker announces an interesting new engine, such as the Hurricane inline-six unveiled last spring by Stellantis, the corporate owner of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram. We…
4 AI learning tools I'd use if I went back to college today — College taught me to waste time on study materials—these 4 AI tools would've fixed that.
Hailey Bieber's High-Protein Italian Dinner Will Never Leave My Weekly Rotation — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/edit/recipes/2026/2026-08/hailey-bieber-chicken-meatballs/meatballs-2"> Simple, but so delicious. <a…
Electric Cars? Nah, It’ll Never Happen! — In July 1995, a small group of motoring journalists flew to the French port city of La Rochelle, to “Drive the Future.” The trip was organized by Peugeot and Citroën, which were about to launch electrically driven…
NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission - NASA — NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will embark on her first mission to the International Space Station, serving as an Expedition 76 flight engineer.
How Setomaa Keeps Its Culture Alive on Estonia's Russian Border — Writer Ash Bhardwaj rolls Easter eggs with the Seto people and discovers how ritual, memory, and community outlast political borders.
Cab Forward: The Eagle Vision and the Story of Chrysler’s LH Cars — As soon as I saw John McIntosh’s mint-condition 1993 Eagle Vision roll into my local cars and coffee, I felt acutely aware of how long it’d been since I’d seen one so nice. Like many old sedans and family cars,…
Starved Chrysler Is Hoping for Some Airflow — Chrysler’s future has been in limbo for years. The brand’s range is down to two models, the Voyager and the Pacifica, which are pretty much the same thing. The futuristic-looking concepts we’ve seen over the past few
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner — I've been taking extremely wide photos by pointing an industrial linear camera out the window of a moving train and stitching together th...
Homepage - European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards — The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards were launched in 2002 by the European Commission and have been run by Europa Nostra ever since. This…
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The used luxury sedan that feels like a six-figure bargain — The 2023 Genesis G90 delivers flagship luxury for a fraction of its original price.
Sciver-Brunt feels 'mum guilt' as coaching career begins — Former fast bowler Katherine Sciver-Brunt and wife of England captain Nat discusses the difficulties of balancing her coaching ambitions with being a mum.
‘The wealthy poor’: Soaring food prices hurt Iranian families — Iranians from all walks of life struggle under the weight of rising inflation and war pressure.
"The Storm" Dallas Arts District Mural in Dallas, Texas — <p><img alt="View from across parking lot" data-width="3060" data-height="4080" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/nXAJkx_BW2kZCWMisyxQrynGuz7j0dBlrbR5ihDOzCE/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1…
Can Belonging Change a Life? | Col. Mickie Uberoi | TEDxDY Patil World School Youth — NOTE FROM TED: This talk contains a discussion of child abuse and related traumatic experiences. Contents only represent the speaker’s personal views and approach. Some viewers may find…
Kanjo Honda Civic Culture Was Born Out of Rebellion and Belonging — Remember when Vin Diesel and his crew used to steal Panasonic DVD players from tractor trailers? Now, the street racers of the Fast and the Furious franchise are basically Marvel superheroes, with cars instead…
Another 5 “Bad” Cars I Want Anyway — At this point, now 15 cars and three installments into this exercise in aspirational automotive masochism, it might seem like cars with bad reputations are my real passion. That’s not strictly true, but my interest in the…
MagSafe Monday: The TESSAN AERO 5000 brings a titanium finish to an ultra thin battery - 9to5Mac — The TESSAN AERO 5000 is a highly compact power bank with a premium titanium unibody and a safe semi solid state battery core.
5 Old Favorites Losing Value in a Cooling Market — We’re well into the driving season, and another update to Hagerty Valuation Tools is here. Last week we discussed cars that saw remarkable increases in value. Unsurprisingly, supercars were the clear winners… again.…
The Hopped-Up Sixes That Built BMW’s M Brand — There is a particular clarity to a great naturally aspirated straight-six at full stretch. Not just noise, not just speed, but a sense of mechanical alignment, as though every moving part has agreed on a single purpose. Few…
One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about a AI. Does he also hold the remedy? | Alan Finkel — What might a modern day equivalent of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics look like? Guided by the author, I propose the three laws of AI
Go 1.27 interactive tour — An interactive tour of what’s new in Go 1.27: every notable language, runtime, and standard library change, with short runnable examples you can edit and run in the browser.
Sander seating island encourages reclining from all angles — <p>Promotion: Berlin furniture brand Objekte Unserer Tage has released the Sander seating island, the flexible younger sibling of its marshmallowy sofa model, which was designed with a central backrest that can be…
Lexus ES 350h AWD Premium + First Drive: Change to Survive — Sedans are on the way out at Lexus, but not completely. Toyota’s luxury arm used to make four: the flagship LS, which upset the luxury-car establishment in 1989; the front-wheel-drive ES, born as stablemate to the LS; t
The Art of Living Together in Today's Nigeria | Lynda Binos | TEDxBingham University — 'The Art of Living Together in Today's Nigeria' is a thought provoking talk on understanding and navigating Nigerian Culture in today's society. It explores how culture shapes the way people…
Wandering the Oregon Woods in a Tired, Good Truck — I seem to have a particularly drug-resistant strain of terrier-chihuahua, so as July 4th approached and I considered my options to remove little Bowie from the endless whiz-bang-booms that are his greatest terror, I broached…
The Drin Announce New Album I Lost My Way For Centuries: Hear “Haven’t Lived It Yet” — Of the many great underground rock bands currently populating Cincinnati, the Drin may be the toughest to pin down. The group came on our radar playing a fried, bleary, extremely confident…
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work — Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical…
Apple's Manufacturing in India Gets Boost From New Tariff Exemptions — Apple stands to gain from India's decision to eliminate import duties on a range of components used in smartphone manufacturing, in a move that could further lower costs for the company's rapidly growing…
Flintoff leaves England Lions head coach role — Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff steps down as head coach of England Lions.
Littler's nan shocked by seeing mural from bus — A mural in Warrington honouring two-time world darts champion Luke Littler surprises his grandmother after she spots it while on a local bus.
The Ferry Boat Children - Longreads — "For the children of south Mull, secondary school means leaving home age eleven. Their parents' silence was never consent."
Fabian Giesen (@rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place) — As of a recent update, my phone has started detecting me going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off". This insta-locks the screen and kicks me out of the app I use to pace my runs. gaaaaah
2027 Dodge Charger Super Bee Argues There’s a Replacement for Displacement — Enthusiasts have been asking Dodge for more power ever since the current-generation Charger made its debut for 2025. The brand has finally delivered: The 2027 Dodge Charger Super Bee packs more power…
7 Cars That Aged Better Than We Expected — When you live and breathe vintage machines, it’s easy to neglect a car’s original context. The 1934 Chrysler Airflow, for instance, was one of the first cars designed with aerodynamics in mind, but it looked so foreign that…
Ode to a Volkswagen Maestro — Ken Jansen is one of those guys in the trades without whom the world would simply come to a stop. And in fact, as they retire and die off, the world kind of is coming to a stop. Have you ever found yourself wailing into the void, “Why does nothing…
This, Too, Shall Pass - Longreads — "Our guts have never been more optimized—but have the scat chats gone too far?"
The Atlas Obscura Guide to Seeing the Northern Lights — <h2>Choose a place worth the trip even if the sky does nothing.</h2> <p>Here is the failure mode nobody warns you about.</p> <p>You book a week in a country you chose because it appeared on a list of the best places to see…
ANZ, NAB Among Banks Funding Blackstone HSBC Book Buy, AFR Says — ANZ Group Holdings Ltd. and National Australia Bank Ltd. are among lenders bankrolling Blackstone Inc.’s A$36 billion ($25.3 billion) purchase of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Australian retail loan portfolio, the…
Priced out of an Acura NSX? Here Are 4 Mid-Engine Alternatives — When the Honda/Acura NSX debuted in 1990, it represented a major change in the market for mid-engine sports cars. It brought exotic looks and precision handling matched with an easily serviceable Honda drivetrain an
Goldman Sachs to Acquire ETF Provider Neos in $2.3 Billion Deal — Goldman Sachs Group will pay as much as $2.25 billion to buy Neos Investments, expanding its asset manager’s reach in the actively managed exchange-traded fund market. Bloomberg's Neil Sipes joins to discuss.…
Four Histories of Race in America — The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.”
Survey Says: Muscle Cars Are More American Than Apple Pie — Back in May, Hagerty surveyed 2000 American adults about their automotive preferences, their driving habits, and their feelings about car culture in general. We now have the results, and they’re full of both…
Bugatti Bids Farewell to the Man Who Helped It Return Home — Bugatti hasn’t always called Molsheim home; It was briefly based in Italy’s Motor Valley, where it built the EB110 in the now-abandoned Blue Factory. It returned to its historic French headquarters after joi
'I pay £580 a month to live in a disused care home': Property guardians show us around — Could you live communally in a disused building in exchange for a heavily discounted rent? Property guardians show us around.
My ’69 Corvette Was a Dream Fulfilled — I saw my first Corvette in 1953, when I was 10 years old. It was on display at the end-of-summer fair in Hookstown, Pennsylvania, parked in a tent alongside some sewing machines and refrigerators. What a beauty it was—I couldn’t take my…
Aston Martin Brings Back Five Classic Colors for Heritage Edition One-Offs — Aston Martin took a trip to the heritage well and came back with five eye-catching paint colors from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Its Q by Aston Martin division has applied each paint…
4 Vintage Off-Roaders That Embody Slow Baja — Michael Emery realized his “a job driving around Baja” dream. After he launched a podcast about the Slow Baja lifestyle—off-roading by taking it easy, using paper maps, stopping to smell the desert flowers and eat the local…
Justin Bieber's Coachella Set Now A Surprise Live Album: Stream — As you are probably aware, Justin Bieber headlined Coachella in April. It was a big deal. It had been years since Bieber mounted a large-scale live performance, and his two Coachella sets came in the wake of Swag…