Ten Del Monte employees experienced in preparing pineapple went head to head to challenge the previous record of 17.85 seconds. After the unofficial heats, Dominika was at the top of the leader board ...

In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

Michigan native Billy Strings got the Tiny Desk Concert treatment this week on NPR's YouTube channel. Strings, now based in Nashville, Tennessee, is a west Michigan native. He grew up in Muir, a ...

In the early '90s, Colleen Mazzella walked into a newly opened pizzeria and met the man who would become not only her boss, but her husband. She was visiting a friend who had been hired at Italian ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

Slice House by Tony Gemignani was set to open Nov. 8 at 1286 Great Mall Parkway within The Fields mixed-use complex across from the Great Mall. Opening day festivities were to feature a Slice House ...

Great leadership doesn’t just happen in boardrooms or business settings. From little league coaching and community initiatives to family moments and encounters with service providers, powerful ...

On Saturday, November 1, The String Cheese Incident returned to Suwannee Hulaween’s Live Oak, Fla., location, where they were scheduled to submit two sets of songs performed in front of a festival ...

As I made my way out of the Park Avenue Armory after a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’s “11,000 Strings” Saturday afternoon, a friend asked what I’d thought of what we’d just heard. For the ...

The fruit formerly known as orange has a new identity. Blue Moon beer is typically served with a slice of fresh orange as garnish, a reference to the brew’s Valencia orange peel ingredient and ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...