"North America" Blogs & Blog Posts

New York, San Francisco, and Chicago are among the top US cities with the best public transit systems, according to the think tank Oliver Wyman Forum.

Nick Cave is embarking on a solo North American tour this fall. He will be joined by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood. Consequence: Cave's solo tour begins in Asheville, North Carolina on September 19th and features shows at Washington, D.C.

The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, east and west by large rectangular open areas. These flat zones, called plazas by archaeologists s...

Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in a bloody mating-season battle with a rival in what today is northeast Indiana, nearly 100 miles from his home territory, according to the first study to document the annual migration of an indiv...

An analysis of ancient DNA from a 100,000-year-old polar bear has revealed that extensive hybridization between polar bears and brown bears occurred during the last warm interglacial period in the Pleistocene, leaving a surprising amount of polar bea...

The Peephole Cinema is a literal hole in the wall that plays silent movies in San Francisco, California. This tiny theater is tucked away in an ally and plays a constant stream of silent movies. It runs all day and night. — Read the rest...

If you've ever come across a tiny horse figurine tethered to a ring on the ground in Portland Oregon, you've likely encountered one of the Portland Horse Rings. These metal rings on the sidewalk remain from a time in history when people traveled arou...