On November 19, 2025, Mount Semeru, the tallest volcano in Java, erupted violently at 4:00 PM local time. The eruption sent a massive column of ash shooting two kilometers into the sky and created ...

Amie Walker makes a Sunday debut puzzle for the left coast (the best coast?). By Caitlin Lovinger Jump to: Tricky Clues | Today’s Theme SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Shortz, in his print introduction to this ...

Everyone wants more power in their golf swing (myself included). With more power, the game becomes just a little bit easier. The problem is, there’s no magic pill you can take to add more pop to your ...

There is a sound a perfectly struck golf shot makes – a striped drive or a crisp iron that never leaves the target. There, too, is the perfectly struck baseball, right off the sweet spot – a laser ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. Florida’s status as a swing state is a distant memory. Florida's population keeps growing, but the rate has slowed, thanks in part to younger people leaving for ...

Robert Redford was a movie star before films moved off the big screen and onto computer monitors. I can close my eyes see him with Paul Newman going out for one final gunfight. But that's just one of ...

The LG StanbyME was certainly an interesting concept. The idea was the following: What if you put a high-quality monitor on wheels, and packed it with smart features? Last year, LG announced the ...

The passing of Hall-of-Fame pitcher Juan Marichal at age 87 last week revived memories of the San Fransisco Giants great who not only stood out because of the effectiveness of his pitches, but the way ...

A sausage and pepper sandwich is always one of Mike’s favorites at church bazaars. Courtesy of Mike McGinley Mike’s partner, Oscar Flores, spent time with his favorite professor from King’s College, ...

Retired NBA center Jason Collins, the first out gay man to play in one of the four major North American leagues, is finally married. His ceremony was in late May, a few yards away from the Lake Austin ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Certain movie directors — Hitchcock and Tarantino come to mind — constitute a genre unto themselves. Steven Soderbergh was never like that, at least not until he started making his “little” films: the ...