The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season.
(Image credit: Jaclyn Licht for NPR)
Continue reading
NPR News supplies a brief version of this story through its feed. Continue to the original publication for the complete report.
Read the original at NPR NewsSources & methodology
The Women's Professional Baseball League makes its historic debutNPR News
Where does the side of the angels really lie?
Instead of scrapping its network of bomb shelters after the Cold War, Switzerland kept building them. The country has more than 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. Some are now used to house migrants.
The mission of the Flock app is quietly subversive: to encourage users to ditch their screens and explore the wonderful world of birding On a brilliantly bright afternoon in his gallery and studio in Bolinas, a small town on the northern California coast, Keith Hansen was putting the finishing touches on a watercolor of an almost improbably flamboyant painted bunting. With an ultra-fine sable brush, he made a few intricate additions to the cobalt blue plumage on the bunting’s head, and, satisfied with his work, slipped the watercolor into a stout binder that every few days welcomes a new addition. Continue reading...