When you think anemometer, you probably don’t think “load cell” — but (statistically speaking) you probably don’t live in Hurricane Country, which is hard on wind-speed-measuring-whirligigs. When ...

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the ...

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One of the best sculpture parks in the country features dozens of whimsical metal structures created by a man who never called himself an artist. The late Vollis Simpson, who grew up and lived in the ...

Out with the old and in with the new. The City of Wilson showcased its new minor league baseball team on Friday. The Wilson Warbirds will replace the Carolina Mudcats as the Milwaukee Brewers' Class 1 ...

Anomalies are the bread and butter of STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl's setting, the most unique aspect of its gameplay. Caused by the radiation emitted throughout the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, ...

Vollis Simpson (1919–2013) grew up on a North Carolina farm “fixing things before he could read,” writes Boston Weatherford. When an injury in his 60s forced him to close his successful machine-repair ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Organizers said on ...

After nearly 25 years, the Whirligig & Weathervane Festival in Shelburne, N.S., has been grounded indefinitely. Organizers announced in a social media post this week that struggles finding volunteers ...