In a reprise of the "Sahara Hare" cartoon, three ultra-endurance athletes ran 4,000 miles across the Sahara Desert. It was the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days through six African ...

The twisted tower shape is based on the look of a mushroom rock, a naturally occurring desert rock formation. The buildings would extend below ground, like the roots of a tree, offering living ...

I once did a search [on our database] and I think the year of the greatest popularity of desert-island cartoons in The New Yorker is 1957, when 17 appeared. Why a spike in 1957? I wonder if it ...