California's Lake Oroville was once a destination spot for boating and swimming, but a five-year drought has decimated its water level.Lake Oroville, July 20, 2011, before California’s historic drought truly took hold. Photo: Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources via Getty Images
It may sound strange, but in March hundreds of California residents traveled to a rural lake to celebrate as engineers opened its spillway to release surplus water.
The place was Lake Oroville, located in Butte County on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, and the second largest manmade reservoir in California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, and some of Southern California. Read More...
Fight!
Get ready for the mud-slinging: the 2016 presidential hopefuls have taken out their magnifying glass and tweezers, looking for any opportunity to pick away at their opponents’ policy mistakes and, arguably more important, character. There’s a euphemism for it: “opposition research”. Ted Cruz has already moved in on the attack against Secretary Clinton, starting a hashtag trend on Twitter called #StopHillary.
It’s still early in the race, and we can be sure that Ms. Read More...
Today, the shelled ninja masters are all but household names — so just how exactly were they “born”?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters Raphael and Donatello pose outside a London toy store in March 2007. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A STUPID JOKE between friends, your beloved cast of mask-donning, nunchuck-wielding turtles may never have existed.
One November night in 1983, friends Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird had holed themselves up in Dover, New Hampshire’s Mirage Studios to work on the latest installment of their “Fugitoid” comic when inspiration struck, Eastman told The Week. Read More...
