Youngsters have probably been playing their way into cultural competence for at least tens of thousands of years. So why are signs of children largely absent from the archaeological record? A cartoon that Biblical scholar Kristine Garroway taped up in her college dorm helps to explain kids’ invisibility at ancient sites: Two men in business […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening higher Wednesday as trading stabilizes following three days of tumult. Industrial companies are rising and retailers and other consumer-focused companies are also up. European markets rose. After a slightly lower open, most stocks turned a higher within the first few minutes of trading, and winners outnumbered losers […]

WASHINGTON — Senate leaders have reached a broad long-term spending deal just one day before the latest in a string of government shutdown deadlines. The deal is an attempt to keep the government open and ensure that this is the last time Congress will have to pass an incremental spending bill for the remainder of […]

The social media influencer Chriselle Lim has a huge international fan base via her many Instagram followers, YouTube subscribers and readers of her website, The Chriselle Factor. Most recently, she added a creative agency, Cinc. Studios, to develop digital content for clients. (She is sometimes paid …

Is there any artistic medium that the legendary avant-garde theater guru Robert Wilson hasn’t tackled? As it turns out, exhibition design is one of them. At age 76, Wilson has collaborated with some of the most critically celebrated minds of our time—among them Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits, and Marina Abramovic—and is himself a […]

Many people do whatever they can to try and eat healthier, with different goals in mind. Some people say they’d like to lose weight, some say they want to have more energy, and to others, it’s about improving their quality of life. But whatever a person’s reasoning is, the first question often is where and […]

Many critics consider Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published in 1821, to be the first explicit exploration of the creative process and drugs. Since then — well, there have been a few more. Whether it’s booze (writers), heroin (rock stars), or cocaine (anyone with money), we’ve long associated, and romanticized the link between, intoxicants […]

A strong earthquake in Taiwan has killed at least two people and injured more than 200 others, officials say. The powerful 6.4-magnitude tremor struck at 23:50 (15:50 GMT) about 20km (12 miles) off the island’s east coast. Emergency responders have rescued about 150 people from hotels and residential buildings that have partially collapsed in the […]

 A winter storm will dump snow and freezing rain on the U.S. Midwest and the Northeast beginning on Tuesday after it caused several deaths as it snarled highways and spurred the cancellation of hundreds of flights at Chicago’s main airport. The National Weather Service warned commuters in northern Texas, east through southern Illinois and Indiana, […]

The Oscar-nominated short documentary Knife Skills has been acquired by Condé Nast Entertainment. This follows last year’s acquisition when the company acquired the Oscar-nominated short documentary Joe’s Violin, also for The New Yorker’s “The Screening Room” which features award-winning short films. The film, directed by Thomas Lennon (The Blood of Yingzhou District), follows the launch of an haute cuisine restaurant […]