Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour found off the coast of Rhode Island

Enlarge (credit: Archives New Zealand) 250 years ago, Captain Cook and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks set sail in HMS Endeavour to find the rumored southern continent (of course, indigenous Australians had known about it for tens of thousands of years at that point). In 1770, the voyage arrived at Botany Bay, on the Australian coast, as […]

Rhode Island entrepreneurs form coalition to unite the state’s startup efforts

A group of Rhode Island entrepreneurs have formed a new group to boost the local startup ecosystem. The new organization, called the Rhode Island Coalition of Entrepreneurs, launched its website this week and is now open to any founder or CEO of a high-growth startup in the state. The group’s leadership team is seeking fellow entrepreneurs […]

10 Things No One Tells You About Rhode Island

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The Activist Putting the Heat on Rhode Island's Lefties

It was the Saturday after Donald Trump won his election, and more than a thousand left-leaning Rhode Islanders had gathered in the cafeteria at Hope High School in Providence. “We were all feeling lost and feeling like we needed to do something,” says Aaron Regunberg, the state representative who helped organize the event. The location […]

UFO? Russian sub detector? Mystery object removed from Rhode Island beach

Published time: 1 Sep, 2017 19:10 A mysterious metal object has been pulled from the sea off the coast of Rhode Island, prompting a series of wild theories about what it might be. The circular eight-legged contraption has puzzled Westerly bathers for months, after it was discovered more than a quarter of a mile from […]

Rhode Island’s ‘sassy’ Teacher of the Year posed next to Trump with a black lace fan — and Trump loved it

Facebook/The White House Nikos Giannopoulos, Rhode Island’s 2017 Teacher of the Year, posed next to President Donald Trump while holding a black lace fan and wearing a rainbow LGBTQ pride pin on his jacket. And Trump “loved it,” Giannopoulos told NPR.   Giannopoulos posted the official White House photograph to Facebook on Thursday, which depicted […]