L ord Randal Plunkett strides through the hip-high grass of Dunsany, a 650-hectare (1,600-acre) estate in the middle of Ireland, trailed by an invisible swarm of midges and his four jack russell terriers: Tiny, Lumpy, Chow and Beavis & Butt-Head. The cattle and sheep are long gone, so too are the lawns and many of the crops. In their place is a riot of shrubs, flowers and trees, along with insects and creatures that call this fledgling wilderness their home.

Exporting soldiers has become a vast industry in Colombia, fueled by the country’s long U.S.-backed war, limited opportunity at home and growing demand abroad.

Barry the barred owl is dead.

XPO Logistics pays DeJoy and family businesses at least $2.1 million annually to lease four office buildings in North Carolina.

On western the edge of the St. Louis metro area, a local taxi company's policy of refusing service to vaccinated and masked customers has roiled...

What steps is the show taking to address the transphobia of the original comic book?

Is the FDA too lax? Do bears go to the bathroom in spotless marble-floored lavatories? Is the Pope an Anabaptist?

As Foone explains, Cartrivision was a short-lived analog format for which videos came on massive cartridges. It wasn’t the first proprietary home video technology—those date back to the 1960s—but it was the first to let people rent Hollywood feature films for home viewing. Since there were no video stores, renting was done through a catalogue, and the cartridges were sent via snail mail. But there was a catch: Most Cartrivision videos could only be watched once. This meant viewers could not skip ahead nor rewind the video. The good news is that there were no rewind fees (they hadn’t been invented yet!), but the bad news is that poorly timed phone calls or bathroom breaks could impact the viewing experience. Once the viewed cassettes were returned (again, by mail), they were rewound with a special proprietary machine.

Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who feared reprisals after criticising her coaches at the Tokyo Games, said her grandmother advised her not to return to her home country because of negative reports about her on television. Tsimanouskaya left the Games and arrived in Poland on Wednesday, days after she accused team officials of trying to force her to fly back to Belarus, where an authoritarian government has relentlessly pursued its critics. In Belarus, Tsimanouskaya's criticism on social media of how her team was being managed set off a massive backlash in state-run media. Her grandmother told her there were reports on television that she was mentally ill and said it was best for her to not return.

Earlier in these Olympics, while watching dressage (the horses whom prance), I observed that, in my considered opinion, the horses were doing most or all of the work and their riders were merely coaches at best, and thus that the horses—and not the humans—should get the medals and the glory and the Wheaties boxes. The Horse People did not like this; my Twitter mentions were rendered unusable for a day. But the horses have come to my aid. The horses are on strike. The modern pentathlon consists of five different disciplines: fencing, swimming, show jumping (the horse one), and a combined event of shooting and cross-country running. Pentathlon is the weirdest Olympic sport, I don’t think there’s any debate about it. According to pentathlon lore, the mix represents the skills needed by soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. Sure, whatever. But what that also means is that in show jumping—unlike in the other Olympic equestrian sports—riders don’t get to bring their own horses. They are randomly assigned a horse from the horse pool. And if the horse doesn’t feel like jumping? Then that horse isn’t going to freakin’ jump.

“When you see a flashy new building that gets built, you think about the architect,” said Timothy Gowers. “But you don’t think quite so much about the structural engineers who were involved in actually working out how such a building could be realised.” For the Cambridge professor, pure mathematics – the study of mathematical concepts for their own sake – is the engineering that underpins the modern world. The high-tech breakthroughs that so excite politicians – in AI, robotics, biotech – are only possible thanks to the mathematical research that took place years or even decades earlier. So when Leicester University announced it was ending pure maths research and making its pure mathematicians redundant in order to focus on glitzier areas of the Stem (science, tech, engineering and maths) subjects, Gowers was shocked. “An academic ecosystem without maths as part of its beating heart seems hard for us to imagine,”...

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"This is a system we don't want to mess with," one scientist said.

Lily, a Vietnamese restaurant, started the luxurious rice as a limited-run joke. Months later, nobody was laughing.

Crushed by a devastating drought and new water restrictions, Daniel Hartwig had no choice but to pull thousands of precious, fragrant almond trees from his California farm.

“He won’t be making any more videos — no more videos at all,” his grief-stricken mom announced in a now-viral video.

A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say.

Banks that earn most of their income from overdraft fees resemble payday lenders more than traditional banks.

THE DRIVE TO PERSUADE President Joe Biden to cancel student debt took a major hit last week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned Congress with a surprise statement in opposition. The move may put her at odds with much of the public and the Democratic Party, but it aligns her with Democratic megadonors Steven and Mary Swig, the billionaire scions of the Bay Area’s oldest real estate dynasty who have deep ties to the California representative. Steven Swig has also long served as a treasurer for Pelosi in her fundraising efforts.