A Walk in the Past Large trees, benches, a playground, and a picnic table or two spread out across an area with mown green grass.

A big mystery The pilot and her navigator were flying over the Pacific Ocean looking for the 2.6-square-kilometer Howland Island. They needed to stop there

The real Casanova Why is the word „Casanova,“ which literally means „new home“ in Italian, associated with lust and physical love? It’s because a man

A young physicist is re-writing history When Jess Wade isn’t „investigating spin selective charge transport through chiral systems,“ as her faculty page at world top

Simply the breast: Ruth Handler’s complicated legacy Whether it’s fond reminders of your childhood or unhealthy, unrealistic expectations of women, the name „Barbie“ makes you

Musk vs. Zuckerberg In this corner, at 52 years old with a net worth of over €230 billion, we have the founder of SpaceX, CEO

The radiant life of Marie Curie Driving through an active war zone to save wounded soldiers, surviving a husband killed in a tragic accident, becoming

Devilishly good summer reading The world-famous author Salman Rushdie has won the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, which he’ll accept in Frankfurt in

Where’s the fridge and my air conditioned closet? In last month’s Learning Nugget, we looked at a few variations in U.S. and German housing norms.

No Rolländen and unlocked doors If we asked you to think about cultural differences between Germany and the United States, we’d expect your ideas to