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ARLINGTON, Texas — When Dallas Cowboys All-Pro kicker Brandon Aubrey drained a 64-yard field goal to send Dallas to overtime in an eventual 40-37 overtime victory…

When the NFL, Roc Nation, and Apple Music announced that Bad Bunny would be the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, the noise started almost immediately. On…

October 14, 20253 min readNovember 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years AgoCurveballs; poison wallpaperBy Mark Fischetti 1975, Pupil Perception: “Photographs of two women…

Around 1919, the British mathematician G. H. Hardy hopped on a London cab on his way to visit his Indian colleague Srinivasa Ramanujan.The cab’s licence number,…

Earlier today I set these three puzzles, loosely based around 1729, the “taxicab number”. To read about the link between London cabs and 1729 please read…

On a brisk February evening in 2006, around a hundred people gathered in the venerable Koreatown watering hole HMS Bounty to pay their last respects to…

The government shutdown may have prevented the publication of September’s job report, but we can be reasonably confident that when the numbers are known, they will…

A unique depiction of military lifeNow Boots shines a spotlight on the courage and resilience of service members, who sublimated an integral part of their identity…

CHICAGO – Given how early it happened and everything that happened afterward — all those abortive threats by the Milwaukee offense and tense outs recorded by…

Stewart continues: “This was another means of smoothing national sensibilities by ensuring that the precedence given to the Irish saltire – because it lay over the…