The latest incident was caught on video, prompting horror, outrage and calls for the city to do more to protect children.
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How to Make Comics
Join us on a four-part journey through the art of comics.
On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
The fennec fox is the smallest fox on earth and cute as a button. It has mischievous dark eyes, a small black nose, and impish six-inch ears—each several times larger than its head.
My Time with Kurt Cobain
In early 1992, when I first met Kurt Cobain, he and Courtney Love were living in a little apartment in a two-up-two-down building on an ordinary street in the Fairfax section of Los Angeles.
A 5-year-old was killed while riding her bike. A video taken the next day has, rightfully, left people furious.
A roadside memorial for Allison Hart was still forming when a car drove recklessly through the D.C. intersection.
22 years ago, they got a tattoo and free Mexican food for life
Twenty-two years ago, Casa Sanchez in San Francisco estimated that its notorious tacos-for-tattoos deal would cost somewhere in the ballpark of $5.8 million. Martha Sanchez, who came up with the deal, arrived at that pricey estimate after the promotion was already underway.
Ancient Carthaginians really did sacrifice their children
A collaborative paper by academics from institutions across the globe, including Oxford University, suggests that Carthaginian parents ritually sacrificed young children as an offering to the gods.
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
Google Talk, Google’s first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed.
Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia
A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization It’s July 12, 2017, and Jens Dopke walks into a windowless room in Oxfordshire, England, all of his attention trained on a small, white frame that he carries w
Today in old millennial nostalgia
Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! club and the stickers that came with blank VHS tapes. Great big waves of nostalgia washing over me.