In a city that is too often unjustly stereotyped as favouring the new, the Hollywood studio reminds us of how much history – and, specifically, pop-culture mythmaking – is rooted in and around Los Angeles. There in these spaces, you might see a spot where US actor James Dean once stood, roll past the house … Read more
NEW DELHI: Chinese researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper claiming to have found a prehistoric tapeworm partially intact inside a sample of 100-million-year-old mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber in Myanmar. According to the scientists, the discovery of a tapeworm from this era is extremely uncommon … Read more
On the island of Oahu, one of Hawaii’s most contentious issues has long been about what to do with the Haiku Stairs — a metal staircase also known as the “Stairway to Heaven” that rises 3,922 steps up the Koolau Range to a height of 2,800 feet. Hiking the stairs is illegal, but hikers trespassing over … Read more
