Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky Leta Renowned puzzler Peter Winkler invented the addictive word game, HIPE, with some friends when they were juniors in high school. While it may not have become the overnight success of Wordle, the game did earn Winkler admission to Harvard. According to his book, Mathematical Mind-Benders, he wrote a college … Read more
ON THE MALINCHE VOLCANO, Mexico — On the flanks of a central Mexico volcano, the country’s female mountaineers have chosen a new “Queen of the Mountains,” complete with crown, ice axe and red cape. The tradition that dates to the 1950s came this year at a somber time for Mexico’s mountaineers, as the tight-knit community … Read more
Rachael Rodgers is a photographer who documents her road trips on Instagram. But her travel companions aren’t family members or friends — they’re dogs without permanent homes. Rodgers, who lives in the small hamlet of Exshaw in Alberta, Canada, said she has traveled with hundreds of dogs across Canada, plus three U.S. states — Washington, … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment MOSCOW — The loss of life toll from wildfires in Russia’s Ural Mountains rose to 21 Tuesday, Russian state information company Tass reported, citing native emergency service businesses. Wildfires have raged within the Kurgan area of the Urals and in Siberia all week. A resident of western Siberia’s Tyumen province died … Read more
MOSCOW — Wildfires have engulfed massive areas in Russia’s Ural mountains and in Siberia this week, with authorities promising to swiftly include them. A complete of over 54,000 hectares of forests within the Sverdlovsk area within the Urals had been on hearth as of Monday morning, in response to native authorities. Greater than 4,800 firefighters … Read more