years

Fitness

64 years ago today, Bob Dylan recorded the song that made him a legend — and he wrote it in 10 minutes

Date: July 9, 1962. Although no one realized it at the time, it was a moment that made music history when folk singer Bob Dylan recorded a song that turned him into a legend. That day, Dylan “goes into a studio and records the song that will make him a star: Blowin in the wind,”

Read More
Fitness

16 years ago today: The ‘Predator’ sequel that saved the franchise from hitting theaters

If you’re going to follow Arnold Schwarzenegger, you better have a plan. Over the years, every predator The sequel struggled to recapture the magic of Schwarzenegger’s 1987 sci-fi classic. Then, 16 years ago today, hunters did something fans had been waiting decades to see: it stopped trying to outdo the original and instead returned to

Read More
Cars

30 years ago, Ferrari automated the manual transmission. Now it automatically becomes manual

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter delivers the stories that really matter straight to you every weekday. As I approach four decades on this earth, I’ve learned that if you wait long enough, you see all the good and bad things again. I remember back in 1997, when Ferrari

Read More
Fitness

36 years ago today: One of the ‘biggest World Cup controversies’ happened

Lionel Messi and Argentina have reached the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup after a miraculous comeback against Egypt on Monday. Trailing 2-0 in the 67th minute, the reigning world champions looked set for a shock round of 16 exit. However, Messi had other plans. He hit a pinpoint cross for Christian Romero to head

Read More
Cars

This was the fastest speed recorded on a public road in almost 80 years

Heritage Images/Getty Images Despite all the power and modern technology available in modern supercars, it is almost impossible to reach a speed of 269 mph in an automobile on public roads today. And nearly ninety years ago, it was an engineering feat of astonishing proportions. In 1938,

Read More
Cars

This is what four years in a river does to a GM 6.2L V8

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter delivers the stories that really matter straight to you every weekday. When you take a car out of a lake or pond after standing there for who knows how long, the results are always disgusting. I mean, what do you expect to get?

Read More
Outdoors

My 3 Favorite Concealed-Carry Guns After Years of Handgun Testing

Sign up for the On the Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. If you’re considering getting a concealed carry gun, the good news is that you have plenty of great options. I’ve shot, and reviewed, these compact pistols and revolvers over the years, but my list of top picks looks a

Read More
Fitness

32 years ago today: ‘One of America’s Greatest Movies’ hit theaters — and it still has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes audience score

More than 30 years after its release, Forrest Gump remains one of the most beloved American films ever made and critics still rank it among the greatest films of all time. When? Forrest Gump After hitting theaters on July 6, 1994, few would have guessed that it would become one of Hollywood’s defining films. More

Read More
Fitness

32 years ago, a legend unveiled an invention in his garage — and it made him billions

Rewind 32 years ago, to July 5, and you’ll find recent college graduate and now famous entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and his then-wife MacKenzie on a road trip formulating the idea for an online bookseller. Seems obvious now, but it wasn’t so then. Then, you’ll see Bezos making Amazon a reality in a garage. On July

Read More
Books

Susanna Clark: ‘I was ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’. Imagination

In October 2016 I was in the hospital. I had been ill with a disease called chronic fatigue syndrome for 11 years, but in the last six weeks I was struck by a strange, sudden crisis. I was unable to eat – the day I ate a couple of biscuits was a good day; Sometimes

Read More