Smart Forest Management

from AP For tribes, ‘good fire’ a key to restoring nature and people By JOHN FLESHER Brody Richardson, a member of the Yurok tribe, carries a torch as he takes part in a cultural training burn on the Yurok reservation in Weitchpec, Calif., Thursday, Oct....

Long before Christopher…

from NBC News In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America Wood at a settlement in Canada’s Newfoundland that was cut with metal tools helped researchers pinpoint when the Norse first reached the continent — well before Columbus....

VHS Wins Again

from The New York Times Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes? Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. By Hannah Selinger Getty Images The last VCR, according...

Mort Sahl Gone

from Deadline Mort Sahl Dies: Groundbreaking Contrarian Comedian Was 94 By Erik Pedersen, Tom Tapp Mort Sahl, the acerbic comic whose pioneering style paved the way for such boundary-breaking comedians as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, died Tuesday at...

WPKN

from The New Yorker On Air with the Greatest Radio Station in the World WPKN-FM—on which you can hear a Stevie Wonder song performed by an all-women jazz septet or twenty minutes of Tuvan throat singing—moves to a new location in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut....

Superdiver

from GQ The Secrets of The World’s Greatest Freediver With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports. BY DANIEL...