quote [ Every traveler has experienced it at some point: that sinking feeling of watching all the other suitcases reunited with their weary owners at baggage claim but not seeing your own slide down the conveyor belt. ]

quote [ A patch of desert in California sells for $6 million after 100 years of turbulent history ]

quote [ Justin Lehmiller, research fellow at the Kinsey Institute and author of Tell Me What You Want, has found in his research that 53% of American adults ? slightly more men than women ? have fantasized about sex on a plane, and 9% have this fantasy often.

?People are turned on by the idea of doing new and different things with their sex lives because we tend to grow bored easily with sexual routines,? Lehmiller tells Mic. ?Fantasizing about sex in different settings is one easy way of introducing an element of newness ? and what I see is that people fantasize about sex in a wide range of settings, from public restrooms to beaches and parks to cars and trucks.? ]

quote [ The long read: Dumba has spent her life performing in circuses around Europe, but in recent years animal rights activists have been campaigning to rescue her. When it looked like they might succeed, Dumba and her owners disappeared ]

quote [ Explorer Roman Dial leads a team of young scientists on a mission to document a rapidly changing landscape ]

quote [ A locomotive can derive power from many different sources. The earliest locomotives were driven by steam. Then came electric trains powered by galvanic cells. Later, onboard batteries were replaced by overhead lines. ]

quote [ Mountains and plains, red earth and clouds. A photographic journey across Armenia. ]

quote [ Vefmyndavél hefur verið komið upp á Fagradalsfjalli við Geldingadali þar sem eldgos hófst föstudagskvöldið 19. mars. ]

quote [ A small town in western New York loves its lake monster despite a shady past. ]