The New Yorker

Radio in Racing—Dots, Dashes and Wig-Wag—Joyner Keeps His Word

On one track there is a young woman who sends out messages in her own wig-wag code, read by men with powerful binoculars stationed outside the track. She gets one hundred dollars a week—and she never ...

Here’s Why Radio Stations Always Start with a ‘K’ or ‘W’

KARS-4-KIDS…,” “We are farmers, bum ba dum bum bum bum bump” and one that really lives rent-free in my brain—”101.3 ...
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The Long-Forgotten Uses for Obsolete Technology

Technology moves fast. What seemed cutting-edge a decade ago now collects dust in attics and thrift stores. But here’s the ...
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A makeup artist explains how to use primer correctly for smooth, all-day skin

Your face looks polished at 8am and oddly slippery by lunch. The culprit isn’t always your foundation — it’s the step before ...
Star Tribune

With their Morse Code-like mating dance, fireflies are now lighting up Minnesota nights

As summer heats up and humidity thickens the air, Minnesota’s annual spectacle of fireflies arrives. The flashes of greenish to yellowish light flicker at the edge of meadows and moist woods. Or you ...