Imagine a millipede that's as long as a car and weighs over 100 pounds. This isn't a scene from a horror movie, but a real creature that lived millions of years ago. Meet Arthropleura, the largest arthropod ever discovered. Fossils have shown that these giants roamed the Earth around 346 million yea
Imagine watching a weather report during a hurricane and hearing about a famous football game! That’s what happened when The Weather Channel’s Paul Goodloe mentioned Super Bowl LI while covering Hurricane Milton in Florida. The storm hit Wednesday night, and Goodloe was reporting from Sarasota as th
Polaroid, founded in 1937 in Cambridge, was a powerhouse of innovation. Its founder, Edwin Land, combined science, art, and technology, earning 535 patents from the US Patent Office. Harvard Business School's latest exhibition, "From Concept to Product," explores Polaroid's artistic side, focusing o
Have you ever stopped to think about how satellites, tiny objects in space, affect our daily lives? Satellites have been around for just over six decades, making them one of the newest tools in human history. But in that short time, they've changed how we communicate, navigate, and even predict the
Tom Ortenberg, the founder of Briarcliff Entertainment, has built a career out of distributing controversial films. His latest acquisition, The Apprentice, is a movie about Donald Trump's early business days. Despite the film's controversial subject matter, Ortenberg saw its potential and decided to
Imagine this: a big pharma company like Pfizer is in the spotlight, not for a new drug, but for some serious boardroom drama. Activist investor group Starboard Value has accused Pfizer of some heavy-handed tactics. They claim that Pfizer or its advisors threatened former CEO Ian Read and ex-CFO Fran
Anne Hathaway made headlines recently after apologizing to a Norwegian journalist, Kjersti Flaa, for a less-than-smooth 2012 interview. The interview, part of the "Les Miserables" press tour, resurfaced online, showing Hathaway being somewhat short in her responses and declining Flaa's request to si
It was the year that changed everything. The Boston Red Sox, still smarting from 2003's heartbreaking loss to the Yankees, saw a complete shift with the arrival of a new general manager, Theo Epstein, and a new manager, Terry Francona. Let's not forget the iconic addition of ace pitcher Curt Schilli
Amazon recently introduced a new technology called Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR). This tech is designed to help delivery drivers work more efficiently. The idea is to reduce the time drivers spend organizing packages and checking if they have the right ones. VAPR uses visual cues to show
Ever since Thomas Marshall, the vice president under Woodrow Wilson, joked about VPs vanishing, the role has had a reputation for being a dead end. The odds of becoming president from the VP spot are slim—only 20% of former VPs have made it. Now, Kamala Harris, the current VP, is running for preside
