Rasmus Hojlund was entitled to a wild celebration considering the wait of over a thousand minutes for his first goal in the Premier League, and his Manchester United teammates joined him in a state of total surrender after his winner against Aston Villa. The 20-year-old Dane completed a thrilling comeback from 2-0 down at Old … Read more
Leslie Woit von Neudegg and her husband Marty von Neudegg went on a skiing holiday in the Gastein region, Austria It’s the end of the day, the light is flat and my cut corners have turned into controlled slides. Mentally, my lifeless corpus is already collapsed on a soft towel in a steamy sauna. I … Read more
The tower is named after structural engineer Gustave Eiffel – Hulton Archive/Getty In the race to the top of the 19th century, Gustave Eiffel won by a country mile. Or rather: 143 meters. The Eiffel Tower, at 1,000 feet tall, nearly doubled the previous record for tallest structure, held by the Washington Monument since 1884. … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Thousands of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field experienced a significant surge across a portion of the planet, which included the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia. People at the time probably didn’t even notice the fluctuation, but … Read more
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is one of the best sporting arenas in the world – Clive Rose/Getty Images Recently I was invited to watch a match from one of the hospitality boxes at the new Tottenham Stadium. It was a cold night and as we sat in the large armchairs that offered an uninterrupted view … Read more
no Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, sees the inevitable. If paying brands stay away from the platform and deprive what was once Twitter of its lifeline of ad revenue, X is toast. Musk himself has admitted as much. But no matter how risky the platform is for advertisers and how degraded the experience … Read more