“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

A Parade of Tall Ships Is Heading to New York. Here’s What to Know.

The Hudson River will be filled with dozens of tall ships from at least 20 nations this Fourth of July for Sail4th 250.

X-Ray Specs for the World’s Oldest, Sealed Letters

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased ...

Turkey’s dreadful finishing: 'Normally, that happens once every 50 years'

Turkey have already been eliminated from the World Cup after only two matches. Yet the Turks dominated statistically in both games without winning, totaling as many as 62 shots overall. They ...
GitHub

If you are an Android Studio programmer, there are several ways to download this repo. Note that if you use the Blocks or OnBot Java Tool to program your robot, then you do not ...

Or, if you prefer, you can use the "Download Zip" button available through the main repository page. Downloading the project as a .ZIP file will keep the size of the ...
Fair Observer

From Rerum Novarum to Magnifica Humanitas: The Vatican’s Warning Against Technological Determinism

In May 1891, Pope Leo XIII published Rerum Novarum, the landmark encyclical that established the foundations of modern Catholic social teaching. Written during the upheavals of industrial capitalism, ...