The Bard

from Inside Hook Selema Masekela Is on a Mission to Return Surf Culture to the People The bard of the action sports world chats about African surf culture, his career highlights, and his secret love for Miranda Lambert BY DANNY AGNEW Selema MasekelaIan –...

Pilbarra

from BBC Is the Pilbara the oldest place on Earth? by Dan Avila (Credit: Dan Avila) Dating to around 3.6 billion years ago, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to the fossilised evidence of the Earth’s oldest lifeforms.I In recent years, science...

First Sleep, Second Sleep

from BBC The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ By Zaria Gorvett (Image credit: Alamy) It was around 23:00 on 13 April 1699, in a small village in the north of England. Nine-year-old Jane Rowth blinked her eyes open and squinted out into the moody...

The Beautiful Model

from The Conversation The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything The Standard Model of elementary particles provides an ingredients list for everything around us. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, CC BY...

Pokerbots

from The New York Times How A.I. Conquered Poker Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly. By Keith Romer Illustration by Patricia Doria Last November in the...