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 What category is Hurricane Milton? Florida has bigger worries than that.
USA TODAY · Doyle Rice
The scale that ranks hurricanes does not take into account potentially deadly hurricane hazards such as storm surge and tornadoes.
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 Hurricane Helene is exposing the broken flood insurance system
Fast Company · Kristin Toussaint
Very few homeowners have flood insurance, and the National Flood Insurance Program is $20 billion in debt.
 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry: Three scientists win for groundbreaking work in proteins
STAT · Andrew Joseph
Researchers had long dreamed that there could be a way to predict the 3-D structure of proteins.
 Coachella has become a victim of its own success
Bloomberg · Lucas Shaw
Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna passed on headlining in 2025.
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 Grazer beats the behemoth that killed her cub to win Alaska’s Fat Bear Contest
Associated Press · Mark Thiessen
Fans cast votes online for their favorite chunky competitor in tournament-style brackets that begins with 12 bears.
 Dropping the ‘senior’ in senior center: Beyond bingo, there’s speed dating and travel
csmonitor.com · Ashley Milne-Tyte
Senior centers are evolving into active, modern cultural hubs to meet the needs of baby boomers and their Silent Generation predecessors.
 Lots of kids wear Crocs, but are they bad for young feet?
NPR · Maria Godoy
What’s squishy, water-resistant and on kids’ feet everywhere? That’s right — we’re talking Crocs.
 (The case for arguing that) ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is good, actually
winteriscoming.net · Dan Selcke
The contrarian in me wants to ask: is everyone jumping the gun?
 Opera on the brink: Can new compositions return the art to its popular roots?
Salon · Nicholas Liu
Composers are always making new operas, but leaders in the opera world stress the need for emotional immediacy.
 The 15 best museums in the U.S. you had no idea existed
thrillist.com · Jessica Sulima
Whether you’re interested in funeral history or neon signs, there’s a quirky museum out there for you.
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