Adam Carriere recounts the moment his dog caused a scene in a Nelson, B.C., parking lot when it honked a car horn with its paw while it waited for its owners.

Midway through a long crazy week, I was red-lining a little, feeling overwhelmed by deadlines. I knew it was time to slip away for a bit of quiet and peace. I couldn’t go for long. I had a full load of work, another hectic day at my desk. But I’ve learned it doesn’t take much time outdoors to help me …

Humans once had a way smaller footprint. “Homo Sapiens, modern humans, evolved in Africa,” says Arev Sümer, a paleogenetics PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. For millennia, humans stayed in Africa. But then, roughly 100,000 years ago, humans started leaving the continent in waves. “We don’t know exactly when ” says Sümer, but “sometime about …

As days get darker and colder, people may experience seasonal affective disorder, or SAD. As the seasons change, you may feel sluggish, depressed or uninterested in doing the things you used to enjoy. You may also oversleep or overeat. Around 1 in 20 people in the U.S. has SAD. Many more people have the winter blues, a milder version of SAD, …

Amazon has launched a new outlet called Haul which caps the price of products on sale at $20 (£15.79), in an effort to take on low-cost retailers Temu and Shein. It says shoppers can expect “crazy low prices” on Haul products that are “worth the wait” of up to two weeks for delivery. Amazon’s Chinese e-commerce rivals have enjoyed rapid …

Christmas wasn’t always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But in 19th-century London, it went viral. When Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol, the book’s tale of miserly Scrooge and the ghosts that transformed him transformed the holiday too, especially in the U.S.

Climate change has been blamed for many dramatic effects on our planet and our lives. Now it may even affect the measurement of time. You’ve probably heard of “leap seconds” — the sliver of time scientists occasionally add to the world’s official time standard to resolve a divergence between old-fashioned time-telling and modern atomic clocks. But we’re nearing a year …

According to the researcher’s analysis, his writings suggest that 2025 could bring significant challenges, including a potential asteroid collision and a plague-like outbreak in the UK. An end to Russia-Ukraine war Nostradamus’ predictions for 2024 hint at the continuation of a large-scale war across continents. However, his cryptic writings suggest that 2025 could bring an end to one of the …

Tom Waddington is on a quest to row across the Atlantic Ocean all by himself , he found plenty of company at sea, when a pod of pilot whales thronged around him. They followed him for hours, growing from a few playful animals to hundreds of large creatures. At least one smacked into his small boat. The whales popped their …

Authorities in London have arrested a 63-year-old man in connection with the cheese heist of 2024, in which tens of thousands of pounds of high-value cheddar were stolen from a major distributor. London-based retailer and cheesemaker Neal’s Yard Dairy said it learned on Wednesday that a suspect was in custody. The Metropolitan Police confirmed to NPR that a man was detained …