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Downtown Toronto has a dense core of tall, glassy buildings along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Outside of that, lots short single family...

The greatest mode of transportation is the funicular, which is a special kind of train pulled by a cable that runs up steep slopes. But...

Bonus episode: Roman Mars on Blank Check with Griffin and David talking about The Quick and The Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995)Roman note: I LOVE...

Data is the lifeblood of public health, and has been since the beginning of the field. But essential data gathering for the COVID pandemic...

If you’ve ever been to a supermarket in the US, you’ve probably seen an ethnic food aisle. Maybe it was called the "international aisle,"...

Standing on Beechey island, a peninsula off Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, are four lonely graves: three members of an ill-fated...

Every year in the spring, small towns throughout New England host their annual town meeting. Town meetings take place in high school gyms...

While urban parks are safe havens for birds, parks are often surrounded by condos and hotels and office buildings with floor-to-ceiling...

So why don't we have mouth Roombas? Is the universe full of chickens? What scientific advances are happening? What was the first internet...

In February 2021, it began to snow in Austin, Texas, which was unusual, and exciting for some, at least until the power dropped out for...

Natalie de Blois contributed to some of the most iconic Modernist works created for corporate America, all while raising four children....

While something like dial-up might mostly be a thing of the past, the truth is copper phone lines still connect a lot of people to the...

In the 1990s Dave Davis worked as the groundskeeper at a small neighborhood park in a suburb of St. Louis called Creve Coeur. It was an...

The Columbia Journalism School recently announced the 16 winners of the 2022 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, including...

There's a small neighborhood within the SEZ of Shenzhen that is known for mass-producing copies of the most celebrated works of Western...

On the west coast of Ireland, on the banks of an estuary dividing county Limerick from county Clare, lies a small town called Shannon. But...

People have been going back and forth about what makes a healthy and productive office since there have been offices. The 20th century was...

When the two greatest auction houses in the world – Christie’s and Sotheby’s – vied for the privilege of auctioning off $20 million worth...

The Punisher has always been a complicated Marvel antihero: a man whose creator imagined him as a reaction to the failures of government at...

At the end of the calendar year and into the new year the 99pi staff collects a bunch of short, joyful little stories that are fun to...