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“Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”

North Country residents Bonnie Black and Cindy Jennett are among the 5 million people globally celebrating their Leap Year births today, Feb. 29, 2024.

A South Korean man has been receiving tons of love from Indian social media users after a video of him wearing traditional South Indian attire went viral on Instagram. Going viral: “Video creator” @baeyunsooo uploaded the video to his Instagram on Feb. 20, which has already amassed over 2.1 million views and more than 311,000 likes from other users. The 37-second viral video shows @baeyunsooo trying on a white dhoti with a gold border, partnered with a white kurta, a type of loose, collarless shirt or tunic, and an embroidered dupatta, a shawl-like scarf traditionally worn by w...

Our quiz shows are important. But the transformation of the popular but difficult University Challenge into a festival of political correctness is a scandal.

Explosive eruptions are not bad everywhere.  Hawaiian society southeast of Kīlauea’s summit actually benefited from some of them. These benefits result from the deposits of fine volcanic ash that transformed a barren sea of pāhoehoe into an area capable of sustaining agriculture.