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US Navy aircraft carriers, from front to back, USS Wasp, USS Yorktown, USS Hornet, USS Hancock, and USS Ticonderoga at Ulithi Atoll in December 1944. US Navy In September 1944, the US Navy captured Ulithi Atoll and used it to support the Allied advance. The remote atoll hosted hundreds of ships for repair and rearmament […]
Jared Chambers, Find Sanctuary Los Angeles startup Find Sanctuary will build sites of "micro-cabins" with offices. The hospitality company is targeting vacationers, C-suite team off-sites, and remote-first companies. Find Sanctuary will open its first site of 40 cabins two hours from Los Angeles in 2023. Digital detox retreats are so last year. Jared Chambers, Find […]
Snowpiercer is on the move again — but this it’s arriving sooner vs. later. The long-gestating, post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller will now debut Sunday, May 17 at 9/8c on TNT. The series, starring Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind), Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Emmy nominee Alison Wright (The Americans), was previously slated to […]
Enlarge / Not my actual home office, but you get the idea. (credit: Manuel Breva Colmeiro / Getty Images) As we look back on the past 20 years of Ars Technica from our “orbiting HQ,” one of the things we’ve gotten to witness firsthand is how the nature of working from home has changed. Today, […]
A small Norwegian town on a remote archipelago near the North Pole, where polar bears outnumber residents, has been shaken by the first-ever bank robbery in its living memory. On Friday morning, a 29-year-old Russian tourist visited a bank in the town of Longyearbyen on Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. He threatened bank personnel […]
AP Photo/Gautam Singh Indian authorities said they have generally located the area on a remote Indian island where an isolated tribe was seen burying a 26-year-old American. John Allen Chau was allegedly killed with arrows earlier this month after venturing onto the island, where he sought to bring Christianity to the tribespeople. It’s unclear whether […]
Two massive pods totaling up to 145 pilot whales beached and died after washing up on an hard-to-reach sandy beach in New Zealand. Half of the stranded mammals died when the help arrived, the rest were put down. New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DoC) has released daunting footage showing dozens of pilot whales sprawled helplessly […]
The latest book in A Song of Ice and Fire was released when the Game of Thrones TV show aired over seven years ago. And as the final season arrives next April, fans are hopeful Martin will have finished The Winds of Winter by the end of 2019 too. Certainly, the 70-year-old author has admitted […]
Sophie Kelk November 16, 2018 Share this article For six weeks, Sophie Kelk lived on a remote Norwegian island north of the Arctic Circle. This is what she discovered about island life—the good, the bad, and above all, the community spirit. As my flight begins its descent into Bodø, I catch a glimpse of the […]
Dropping an ‘unwritten rule’ of having a flight attendant aboard and other changes mean EVAQ, Quebec’s air ambulance service, will now allow parents to accompany their children aboard most flights.
