DETROIT — Read this quickly, before it melts. Ice cream was a rare and expensive treat for centuries because of the difficulty of storing ice. In the summer of 1790, President George Washington spent $200 on ice cream, the equivalent of $7,259 today, according to the International Dairy ...
Every generation deserves its own postgrad malaise movie. Not every attempt is going to be "The Graduate" or "Frances Ha," but even when they're mediocre, they're also often a pure expression from a young filmmaker about what their contemporaries are feeling at that exact moment. Though the ...
Have you ever wondered about the log cabin that is in Jackson Park, known as Old Town, in Negaunee? When homeowners Ben and Anna Noskey wanted to tear down the little house that sat in their backyard on Hungerford Avenue to make room for a garage, they didn’t expect to find a piece of ...
U.S. hurricane season is gearing up. And from Amanda and Boris onward, tropical cyclones' names in the Pacific region are unfolding quickly. But why the monikers each year? Or at all? Humans have given names to the world around them for almost as long as language itself has existed, but ...
GOTHIC, Colo. — Last winter was tough for marmots living high in the Colorado mountains, where researchers say two-thirds of one population died while hibernating because of insufficient snow cover. Those that survived are doing well, fattening up in time not just for fall and hibernation ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities warned Friday they would take legal action against anyone who starts an open fire, as huge blazes on Borneo and elsewhere created a choking haze that blanketed cities and dense smoke drifted into neighboring Malaysia. The fires are concentrated ...
