My Saga, Part 2
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s passage through America.
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s passage through America.
It was about half past midnight on July 5, 1943. The heat of the day had given way to the usual cooling that occurs during the summer at Boise City, located in the far western end of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Most of its 1,400 residents had gone to bed when an airplane began dropping bombs on the sleepy town.
Archaeologists have started excavating about 3,000 skeletons from the Bedlam burial ground in London, used from 1569 to at least 1738.
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If you haven't been watching "Broad City," maybe Jon's unfettered enthusiasm will convince you that it's totally worth your time.
Seven Marines and four soldiers were missing Wednesday after a helicopter crashed over the water on the Florida Panhandle during a routine night training exercise.
The gallery says it has placed them in the same category as tripods, which are banned "in order to protect paintings, individual privacy and the overall visitor experience."
"I've had women come up to me after [the speech] and say, 'Hey, my boss came up to me and gave me a raise after hearing your speech.'"
Utah — the only state in the past 40 years to carry out a death sentence by firing squad — is poised to bring back the Old West-style executions if the state cannot track down drugs used in lethal injections.
Amnesty International says bills to reverse progressive family planning laws would reduce Iranian women to "baby-making machines."
The Ferguson City Council on Tuesday evening unanimously approved a resolution to part ways with City Manager John Shaw following a scathing Justice Department report that alleged racial bias in the city police department and court system.
In nine years, the Oscar winner helped transform the South Sydney Rabbitohs from perpetual losers into the best rugby league team in the world
Helping find answers to hereditary diseases, training surgeons or wanting to leave an educational legacy are the reasons. But what sort of people donate bodies to science?
During World War II, the boiler room under Harvard's Memorial Hall was turned into a secretive wartime research lab. Here, volunteers were subjected to hours of noise as scientists tested military communications systems. Out of this came the Harvard sentences, a set of standardized phrases still widely used to test everything from cellphones to VoIP.
Podcasting is the talk (and talk, and talk, and talk) of the town, and the phenomenon is more than just a “Serial” afterglow.
In a surgery worthy of the most convoluted Grey’s Anatomy plot, surgeons at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco completed two-day, six-way kidney transplant late last week.
Surprisingly, in 2014 the U.S. space transportation picture took shape in the sense that a viable way forward became clearer, although with no guarantee of ultimate success. NASA is not going to directly replace the Space Shuttle. That horse left the barn in 2009. The earlier demise of the Ares launch system as part of the cancellation of the Constellation program made that reality clear. Therefore, the question becomes, what now?
Paradox Interactive creates elaborate strategy games that are unusually popular with women. Susana Meza-Graham and Sara Wendel-Örtqvist explain why.
The teenager turned around. He was face-to-face with a teacher of an online course. Well, sort of. The teacher’s face was encased in a small video screen. His body was a four-foot-tall plastic tower on wheels.
People have an “equality bias” when it comes to competence or expertise, such that even when it’s very clear that one person in a group is more skilled, expert, or competent (and the other less), they are nonetheless inclined to seek out a middle ground in determining how correct different viewpoints are.
We know what rocket science looks like in the movies: a windowless bunker filled with blinking consoles, swivel chairs, and shirt-sleeved men in headsets nonchalantly relaying updates from “Houston” to outer space. Lately, that vision of Mission Control has taken over City Hall.
So rather than rehash the same tired conversation about which films feature the most truthful scenes of combat (the answer, by the way, is "Band of Brothers"), let's look at movies that best capture different individual facets of military life and deployment, of the people and experiences that make up that parallel universe. No movie gets all of it right, but some of them get little parts of it perfect.
It’s my first time at AVN. I’ve wanted to go forever. My lifelong fascination with the adult film industry sprang from my accidental proximity to it; I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, the cradle of filmic pornography since the early ’70s. It’s also my first time in Las Vegas as an adult.
Why does hunger shape so much behavior that has so little to do with food?
The world of online hate, long dominated by website forums like Stormfront and its smaller neo-Nazi rival Vanguard News Network (VNN), has found a new — and wildly popular — home on the Internet.
On the verge of retirement, Egil Ellis, the greatest sprint musher of all time, takes one last stab at the World Championships.
This is what it must be like to be eaten by an amoeba.
"It's a commonsense idea that Republicans and Democrats can both agree on: members of Congress shouldn't be able to charge taxpayers for first-class airfare or long-term personal car leases," said Rep. Gwen Graham, who will likely be one of the most vulnerable House Democrats in the next election cycle.
What does micro-video fame look like in real life?
One of the current aims of AI research is to design machines that can mimic human thinking as much as possible. We want to better understand what goes on in human thinking, especially when it comes to decisions that cannot be justified other than by drawing on our “intuition” and “gut-feelings” — the decisions we can only make after learning from experience.
Over 30 million Africans live in the diaspora. They sent almost $40bn home in 2014, a figure that is likely to grow significantly in the coming years. And the cost of sending this money is high.
If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando.
The Hummer is possibly the most unreliable piece of crap I've ever owned.
A ring-like filament of stars wrapping around the Milky Way may actually belong to the galaxy itself, rippling above and below the relatively flat galactic plane. If so, that would expand the size of the known galaxy by 50 percent and raise intriguing questions about what caused the waves of stars.
In 1963, the young manager of the Beatles secured a deal for his group to headline the "Ed Sullivan Show" — the world hasn't been the same since.
The harsh reality is that America's internet is still fundamentally broken, and there's no easy fix.
It's just like famous song Frank Sinatra used to sing: If you can make it here, you'll find a hell of a lot of Starbucks.
We all know that camouflage is an important tool in the evolutionary toolbox. But it's only one of the ways that butterflies and caterpillars use color to keep themselves safe.
Women predisposed to ovarian cancer can reduce their risk with surgery, but with it comes early menopause. To avoid this, some doctors propose delaying part of the procedure. But is this safe?
How our leaders learned to escape the flip-flop.
An unwrapped moist towelette branded with the Malaysia Airlines logo has been found on a beach in West Australia — and it's now being tested to see if it is the first confirmed piece of evidence from the airline's missing plane.
In the popular imagination the Silk Road is still, if not a metonym for the Dark Web, the entire thing itself. That’s far from the truth.
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday defended her exclusive use of a private email address during her time as secretary of state, saying that she did so as a matter of “convenience,” to make life simpler by using one device and one email account.
Every year, tens of thousands of untraceable Thai fishing boats ply the sea. Captains buy slave crew and force them to work for years on end to put fish on American plates. This is the story of how a few men — a farmer, a motorcycle mechanic, a construction worker — escaped.
When it comes to statutes prohibiting minors from getting married, the U.S. is more like Latin America than Europe.
The extraordinary life of Janet Vaughan, who changed our relationship with blood.
There are many good and proper ways to eat dates; they are a versatile food.
A federal jury on Tuesday found that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams lifted "Blurred Lines" from Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" — but they didn't do it on purpose — and awarded more than $7.4 million to Gaye’s children Nona, Frankie and Marvin III.
It's not that hard to score bud with the right amount of finesse. Come with me as I guide you on a keef-paved road to sparking up.
"If I could give them no stars, I would."
If you came of high-school age in Southern California in or after the nineties and spent any time in shopping malls, chances are you celebrated a birthday or driver’s license over barbecue-chicken pizza from California Pizza Kitchen.
The fact that Yellow Tail has only been on the market for about 14 years is probably very surprising to anyone who came of drinking age in the early 2000s.
The Warburg is Britain’s most eccentric and original library. Can it survive?
HBO’s wildly popular fantasy show will air, as usual, on Sundays at 9pm in New York — which is also Mondays at 2am in London, 9am in Hong Kong, and noon in Auckland. Unusual times to watch a television drama, to be sure, but it will please some fans who can’t wait.
The easiest way to magically* be a total dick to your friends, and then probably pocket their money.
There's a little Lewis Black inside all of us. He's tiny and red and constantly screaming.
"Top Gear" host Jeremy Clarkson suspended by the BBC "following a fracas" with a producer.
Today we saw an aging pop singer do unspeakable things to a printer, and it was glorious.