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This 99-year-old ballet teacher once taught Parisian royalty. Now she teaches in Pasadena
In 1953, French journalist J.C. Vérots reviewed the Marquis de Cuevas ballet company’s performance of “Les Sylphides.” The show starred some of the most iconic post-war ballet dancers — Serge Golovine, Rosella Hightower, Jacqueline Moreau — but Vérots didn’t focus on them. He was enthralled by Helga Monson de Kansky. “We were surprised to find…
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Why you grieve the end of summer before it’s even over
The days are already getting shorter. The start of the school year is inching closer. You haven’t even had time to make a bucket list yet, let alone check things off. Though the summer has just officially begun, you may be prematurely mourning its departure. For people who live in a climate where warm weather…
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Everyone’s Mad at the World Cup’s New ‘Hydration Breaks’—Except Mr. Moneybags Over Here
Tune into any World Cup match in the US, Mexico, or Canada this summer, and you will find that around the 22nd and 67th minute of any game, the plays will stop. For the first time ever, FIFA has introduced three-minute hydration breaks, which are officially framed as a player welfare measure to combat extreme…
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Scenes from Venezuela and SoCal: Hope battles with despair after massive quakes
They arrived with rescue dogs, sophisticated listening devices and cutting tools that can rip through concrete. On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s international urban search and rescue team descended on a collapsed 10-story high-rise in Caraballeda, a coastal town devastated by Venezuela’s back-to-back earthquakes, as part of the scramble to find survivors. Residents…
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GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy says RFK Jr. broke promises to him, is running HHS on ‘foundation of lies’
Outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) launched his most aggressive public attack on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an interview broadcast Sunday, accusing him of running America’s public health system “upon a foundation of lies” and breaking promises he made to secure Cassidy’s vote for confirmation. “If you build public health…
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The Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Reshaping Michigan Politics
Will Lawrence is one of the founders of the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots climate activism group. Now, he’s running for Congress in a Michigan swing district, one of a growing handful of candidates around the country calling for a moratorium on data center development. Senator Bernie Sanders has endorsed him, calling Lawrence a candidate who…
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Should you keep practicing a religion even if you don’t believe?
Hi readers! I’m Shayla Love, a science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal while she’s out on parental leave. I’ll be diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send…
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I Found Jesus at a Drone Show
One September night in 2025, the luminous face of Baby Jesus appeared in the sky over the Vatican—clearly, verifiably, witnessed by tens of thousands. It was some two millennia after the Book of Revelation prophesied, in John’s apocalyptic vision, that “he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him.” Soon, the image…
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Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
Google’s top privacy and security staff have warned that plans in Europe, designed to get it to open up its search data and Android operating system to competitors, could lead to people’s search queries being hacked and an increase in cybercrime across the content, according to multiple interviews and documents shared with WIRED. Mountain View’s…
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The US is better off than it was in 1976. So why does it feel worse?
America in the summer of 1976 was not in a good place. The president who presided over the country’s Bicentennial, President Gerald Ford, only had the job because the previous president and vice president had resigned in disgrace, making him the sole US president who was never actually elected. The Vietnam War had ended in…