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The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to decimate African populations, but that didn’t happen. Why?

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke spent four years secretly making a brilliant new album, ‘Tall Tales,’ with producer Mark Pritchard, who tells us all about it.

The author’s tomb was erected in 1912—and its anatomical correctness was a problem.

They who have heard, as I have heard, the dreadful shrieks, the sounds, more resembling the bellowing of a wild animal than the intonation of a human voice … They, and they alone, can appreciate the almost overpowering thankfulness which swells the heart

This much-maligned bug is the ultimate survivor. Pest cockroach species have fully earned their reputation as unkillable insect juggernauts.

Mixodectes pungens lived only a few million years after the dinosaurs went extinct.

“Sometimes, if we go over budget a little, they’ll say to me, ‘Come on guys!’ and then I start to worry for you,” Stiller told Eddy Cue, a top exec at the $3.591 trillion company. “But you’re in the black?”

Is the future more screens or fewer screens? Nobody is certain yet.

A visit with a family in mourning

With his magnificent underwater images, Gerardo del Villar wants to rehabilitate the reputation of the ocean’s great predators, inspire conservation, and encourage responsible ecotourism.