There is a drawing of a bicycle in one of Leonarda DaVinci’s sketchbooks– except it wasn’t drawn by DaVinci, and dates long ...
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Who invented the bicycle and then let it slip away?
This special guest video was produced by Adam Tranter, the Bicycle Mayor for Coventry, in the UK. Coventry holds an important place in the history of the bicycle. It is the city where both the ...
President Donald Trump was asked Monday whose idea it was to deploy ICE agents to 13 airports around the country. The president responded that it was his idea, but he also went on a bizarre tangent ...
Gary Anderson was studying architecture at the University of Southern California when he saw the poster. It was 1970, and environmentalism was in the air, along with a broader antiestablishment vibe. ...
The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...
The thermometer doesn't always tell us how cold it feels outside. An Erie man came up with a formula that does. Wind chill, or how cold it actually feels based on the combined intensity of cold and ...
James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, has passed away. Moylan was a Ford interior trim designer who came up with ...
A Monmouth County man will spend over five years in prison for robbing a bank with a handgun last year, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. A federal judge on Monday sentenced Jeffrey L. Kniffin, ...
In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...
Reader Merrill Whitehead, who has shared sharp Austin memories about the city’s early dining scene and tart mustang grapes, sent me a short note about Zelma “Bicycle Annie” O’Riley. One of Austin’s ...
Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to share ideas or feelings. It can make others think or feel something too. Art can ...
Every chef has their go-to kitchen tool. For Chris Cosentino, the former San Francisco chef behind Incanto and Cockscomb, it’s a stackable stainless-steel bacon press that he swears by. “I have two ...
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