From the absurdly brilliant minds behind Monty Python’s Flying Circus comes a wildly irreverent, laugh-out-loud stage comedy that’s anything but educational. Monty Python’s Edukational Show is a brand ...

If you’re expecting a slow start to the new year in Seattle theater, think again. Instead of resting on their holiday show laurels, local companies are roaring into 2026 with everything from ...

A demented U.S. president demands that Norway award him the Nobel Peace Prize (which he initially spells “Noble,” and which ...

Quentin Tarantino has revealed the Monty Python scene that made him feel genuinely sick, and it wasn’t the famously gory “Live Organ Transplants” sequence in The Meaning of Life. While that scene, in ...

The clocks aboard our icebreaker will be changed several times en route to Antarctica. It’s one of many things that make the expedition feel otherworldly. By Raymond Zhong It was Sunday afternoon, our ...

For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an expedition stays “closest to your heart.” By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon en route to Antarctica.

In the endless white expanse, a small mound broke the horizon. As explorer Matthieu Tordeur and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre skied towards it, they saw a golden head emerging from the snow. It was the ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

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Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

“In this image, I’m collecting faecal samples from Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Horseshoe Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula at about 68° S. As an analytical chemist, my research focuses ...