Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones: TV Tune in: Not in the mood for the Olympics but enjoy a good competition? We have just the thing when The Bachelor Winter Games premieres Tuesday at 8 ET/PT. The four-episode series will pit contestants from international editions of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette against each other in athletics and dating. DVD/BLU-RAY View: The […]

In the days leading up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews has been celebrating the work of some of its own scientists. The centre is profiling several of its female scientists on its Facebook site this weekend. In the past, marine science seemed […]

People like paying for news — especially when it’s the New York Times. The publisher’s online subscription business, embarked upon somewhat sheepishly in 2011, has now cultivated over 2.2 million paying readers. An additional 400,000 or so pay for the Times’ standalone Crossword and Cooking apps. But what’s particularly noteworthy is how quickly the business […]

LOS ANGELES — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation — by operating his own partisan news outlet. Resembling a local, conservative news site, “The California Republican” is classified on Facebook as a “media/news […]

We're used to technology that's designed to look attractive, sexy even – Apple saw to that – but in 1969 the idea that a typewriter could be gorgeous to look at and enjoyable to use was eye-opening. That's why the Valentine typewriter made by Italian firm Olivetti was such a ground-breaking piece of …

Anne Magnuson’s future is very much undetermined. The St. Cloud native already earned a nursing degree and is waiting to find out if she’ll be attending medical school this fall. She’s driven and taking opportunities while she can, with no regrets. You wouldn’t know all of this from looking at her. Nor would you know that […]

(Well maybe not every type of company culture. As a customer service consultant, I’ve limited my practice to cultures that aspire to focus on the customer and support employees as multi-dimensional human beings. So if you have more transactional, customer-agnostic cultural goals, the applicability of these seven steps may be limited.) 1. Shorten your mission statement. Are there consultants (or CEOs) out […]

Overlooking lower Manhattan's skyline, guests enjoyed luxurious bites and libations to go along with the daring beauty on display. Hulking caviar blinis were paired with a signature cocktail combining Moët & Chandon champagne, Belvedere vodka, fresh grapefruit juice, and flecks of gold leaf.

The mysterious Maya city of Tikal in north-east Guatemala has been on the Central American tourist trail for decades, and swells with visitors during the day. But it is 5am, and I am part of a television crew with permission to explore the ancient site before dawn. The stars sparkle as, soupy from tiredness, we navigate with […]

Remember how George Clooney’s ultra-slick character in “Up in the Air” had everything ready to go before he passed through security? Well, seasoned world travelers are just like that, too — they know where they’re going, pack what they need, and don’t waste precious minutes at check-in. Here’s what you need to know to fly like […]