New York City, NY

PARIS.- Stephen Fleg has been training much of his life for his Olympic moment. Except he hasn’t. Well, not really. Like many Olympic athletes, Fleg, known as DJ Fleg, has devoted years to perfecting his craft. But he is not an athlete in pursuit of a medal. Fleg has been tasked with creating the soundtrack for the Games’ newest and most hyped event: breaking. And that role comes with more power than you think.

Breaking's key player is a DJ from New York City

Chicago, IL

A handout photo shows, from left: “Intuitive Magic and the Body,” “The Healer,” and “Heart-Opener (Pyramid)” by the artist vanessa german. Her residency and exhibition at the University of Chicago highlights german’s determination to tap into the power of love and art to heal traumas — including her own. (vanessa german/Robert Chase Heishman/Robert Salazar/Kasmin, New York/ Logan Center Exhibitions/The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago via The New York Times)

For a 'citizen artist,' creativity is a matter of survival

Washington State

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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Olympic Games in Paris, American diver Alison Gibson faced an unfortunate incident that led to a score of 0.0. Competing to secure a place in the semi-finals, the 25-year-old Texas-born athlete experienced a collision with the diving board that significantly impacted her performance.

Heart-Stopping Moment: Alison Gibson’s Dive Ends in Disaster at the 2024 Olympics

Kansas City, MO

Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, known for his prowess on the football field, made a personal announcement during a press conference on Tuesday. The three-time Super Bowl champion revealed that he and his wife, Brittany Mahomes, are expecting their third child and that this will be their last.

Patrick Mahomes Reveals He's 'Done' Having Kids with Wife Brittany Mahomes After Baby No. 3

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Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world.It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex.Researchers are constantly encountering lost landmasses that constitute important pieces in the puzzle of our planet’s geological past.Now, a whole new continent has been found lurking beneath the icy waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean.The discovery was made around the Davis Strait, a large stretch of water located between Canada’s Baffin Island and Greenland.The strait was formed millions of years ago when the tectonic plates between the two islands shifted, reconfiguring the...

Scientists have just discovered a brand new continent

NEW YORK, NY.- We must begin with the jingle. It represents everything you probably know about Ross M. Cellino Jr. and Stephen E. Barnes: They were two New York personal injury lawyers reachable for years at 800-888-8888. You may also recall hearing about trouble in paradise. The pair went to...

A jingle put Cellino & Barnes on the map. Their split inspired a play.

NEW YORK, NY.- Hector Berlioz did not have the twilight of a great composer. In his memoirs, he described himself in his 60s as “past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions.” His extraordinary but unusual music was unloved and unplayed; a widower two times over, he was lonely, and hated people more than ever. He wrote, with a shake of his fist at the sky: “I say hourly to Death, ‘When you will.’ Why does he delay?”

The world is still catching up to the music of Hector Berlioz

Dallas, TX

DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary skeleton of an extinct carnivoran often referred to as a “false saber-toothed cat” will be on the prowl for a new home when it heads to the auction block August 28 in Heritage’s Nature & Science Signature® Auction. The event is bursting with must-have treasures for natural history collectors of all kinds, with an array of fossils, meteorites, gemstones, lapidary art, Gold and historically significant scientific items.

Rare Pogonodon skeleton stalks bids in Heritage's Nature & Science auction

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the 2024–25 cohort of the MoMA Scholars in Residence program, supported by the Ford Foundation: Nathalie Joachim, Saloni Mathur, and Joseph M. Pierce. The program invites three acclaimed, inspiring thinkers to join the Museum for a one-year term to pursue projects and research initiatives that contribute to new understandings of modern and contemporary art. This is the third class of MoMA Scholars, following the 2023–24 cohort, which included C. Ondine Chavoya, Anne Anlin Cheng, and Sherrilyn Ifill. Along with work on independent projects, Chavoya, Cheng, and Ifill have hosted conversations, collaborated on displays, and incubated new projects and publications while at the Museum.

Nathalie Joachim, Saloni Mathur, and Joseph M. Pierce join MoMA for a one-year residency

Palm Springs, CA

NEW YORK, NY.- Three tourists from Germany who were accused of firing paintballs at signs, bathrooms and dumpsters in Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California were cited for defacing property, according to park officials. The damage was discovered Sunday on a patrol of a campground after a park ranger...

Tourists accused of defacing Joshua Tree National Park with paintballs

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New info has been discovered about the oldest of Egypt’s iconic pyramids.
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Ancient engineering marvel? New details about how Egypt’s oldest pyramid was built

South Carolina State

Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

PARIS.- Some think it’s a cross between the Eiffel Tower and a beret. Others see it as a goofy, red French Smurf. Most people can’t even pronounce its name. It’s Phryge (pronounced freej), the official mascot of the Paris Olympics. Mocked by the French when it was unveiled, it has become the hottest-selling item in town — and a symbol of the transformation of France’s perception of the Games from an unwanted nuisance to an unqualified triumph.

How the Olympics mascot went from bizarre to beloved

Tupelo, MS

NEW YORK, NY.- Ann Abadie, a scholar of the South who helped found one of the country’s leading Southern studies institutes, died July 30 in Tupelo, Mississippi. She was 84. Her daughter, Leslie Abadie, said she died in a hospice after having a stroke. Abadie spent her entire half-century...

Ann Abadie, champion of Southern studies, is dead at 84

Brooklyn, NY

BROOKLYN, NY.- Jewelry, jewelry and more jewelry will be on the menu in SJ Auctioneers’ online-only Designer Jewelry Estate Collection & More auction scheduled for Sunday, August 25th, starting promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. The 598-lot catalog represents SJ Auctioneers’ finest selections to date of fine jewelry collectibles from famous-name artists and designers.

SJ Auctioneers announces online-only Designer Jewelry Estate Collection auction

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia was constructed as far back as 25,000 BC – though there has since been doubts as to whether the structure was ever man-made at all.In research led by Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, the academics write that “the pyramid’s core consists of meticulously sculpted massive andesite lava” and that the “oldest construction” element of...

'World’s oldest pyramid' built 25,000 years ago was not made by humans, archaeologists claim

The reality of what lies within our oceans has fascinated people since time immemorial, so it’s no wonder we’ve created countless myths about the watery depths.But step aside, Atlantis, scientists have discovered a real Lost City beneath the waves, and this one is teaming with life.The rocky, towering landscape is located west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge mountain range, hundreds of metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, and consists of massive walls, columns and monoliths stretching more than 60 metres (200ft) tall.To be clear, it’s not the home of some long-forgotten human civilisation, but that doesn’t make its existence...

'Lost City' deep in the Atlantic is like nothing else we've ever seen on Earth

NEW YORK, NY.- On a humider-than-humid afternoon in July, Myha’la stepped into a teahouse in her Brooklyn neighborhood and joined the line leading to the front counter. She was wearing a khaki skirt and a matching cropped jacket that revealed the panther tattoos on either side of her abdomen. Her nails were red — she had politely rejected her stylist’s suggestion to paint them brown — and her pixie cut was slick with gel.

Confident, like her character: Myha'la arrives

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Officials say a 39-year-old man from Los Villares in southern Spain's Andalusia region poured water on the paintings to get a clearer image for Facebook.

Spain investigates man who poured water on ancient cave paintings for a better photo

The discovery of rare early human fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an extraordinarily small adult limb bone, is providing crucial insights into the evolution of Homo floresiensis, the so-called “Hobbits of Flores.”. The findings, which date back to approximately 700,000 years ago, are detailed in a...

Human ancestors called ‘Hobbits’ of Flores were smaller than we imagined

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The Australian professor who turned breaking on its head

PARIS.- Breaking made its debut as an Olympic sport Friday, and among the competitors was Rachael Gunn, also known as B-girl Raygun, a 36-year-old professor from...

The Australian professor who turned breaking on its head

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