sciencefriday : > The ancient Wari people of Peru really knew how to throw a party. >
life : > From the March 18, 1946 cover story - “Paris: It belongs also to > Parisians” - A young artist paints Sacré-Coeur from the ancient > Rue Norvins in Mont...
IT’S TIME TO STOP DRINKING CIVET-POOP COFFEE Perhaps you’ve heard of “kopi luwak,” the world’s priciest coffee. And perhaps you know its main claim to notoriety: The drink, which cost...
INSIDE MYANMAR’S ROHINGYA CAMPS: WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO BE A REFUGEE IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY (PHOTOS) Today tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims live in internment camps along Myanmar’s west co...
pritheworld : > You may not recognize their names, but THESE WOMEN ARE MEDICAL > PIONEERS. In 1885, they became the first women from their respective > countries to get...
THE REFUGEE CRISIS IS TURNING MORE GIRLS INTO CHILD BRIDES Just when it seemed like Syria’s civil war couldn’t possibly find new ways to induce human suffering — it’s now leading to a r...
pritheworld : > St. Patrick’s Day is coming up fast, and we’re on the hunt for > new Irish punk music. Can you help us out > ? > > GO HERE AND TELL US ALL...
HOW ‘MAD MAX: FURY ROAD’ CAUSED ACTUAL FURY IN THE WORLD’S OLDEST DESERT The Namibian desert, with its stark, lunar landscape, makes an ideal dramatic backdrop for a post-apocalyptic movi...
THE MYSTERY BEHIND MASS SPERM WHALE DEATHS IN EUROPE Beaches across northern Europe turned into cetacean graveyards this winter, as sperm whale after sperm whale kept stranding itself. Scienti...
pritheworld : > GREENLAND — THE WORLD’S SECOND-LARGEST ICE CAP — IS MELTING > FAST. > > The thing is, no one is really sure why. Here’s what a small team >�...
THE US IS KILLING MORE CIVILIANS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA THAN IT ACKNOWLEDGES ISTANBUL, Turkey — In almost a-year-and-a-half of bombing Iraq and Syria, the United States admits to killing just 22 ...
pritheworld : > Comedian Gad Elmaleh stopped by the studio to school our host on > some French expressions. Is it one kiss? Two? Three?? > > Gad also appeared on o...
pritheworld : > Photos of immigrants on Ellis Island almost 100 years ago vs. Syrian > refugees today. SEE MORE >
BRAZIL’S WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, IN PICTURES When the dams holding waste from a Brazilian iron ore mine collapsed in November, it triggered a huge, harmful mud wave that blanketed villa...
acrosswomenslives : > “We can change Kenya,” Halima told the Across Women’s Lives > > team this week in Nairobi. > > Learn more about this tenacious teen and ...
WITH US HELP, SAUDI ARABIA IS OBLITERATING YEMEN The Saudi-led coalition may be guilty of war crimes in Yemen. And that means the US might be complicit as well. SANABAN, Yemen — The terrify...
AUSTRALIA PLANS TO KILL TWO MILLION FERAL CATS. BEFORE YOU GET MAD, HEAR THEM OUT It’s open season on wild cats Down Under. Over the next five years Australia will slaughter two million fer...
‘SLAVES BY THE WILL OF GOD’: WHY MAURITANIA HAS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD NOAUKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mbarka Mint Essatim wondered why the other girls didn’t have to s...
A NEW US-BACKED ALLIANCE IN SYRIA HAS THE ISLAMIC STATE’S ‘CAPITAL’ IN ITS SIGHTS BEIRUT, Lebanon — A new alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in northern Syria is preparing for an off...
AUSTRIA HELD THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES IN A SQUALID CAMP RUN BY A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY TRAISKIRCHEN, Austria — Just outside Vienna, surrounded by rolling vineyards, lies Austria’s biggest refugee...