The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an ...

The first commercial cable was laid on the bottom of the English Channel in 1850: since that time a vast network of cables, and a vast industry of cable-laying and repair ... Let the Great World Spin ...

One terrified, inexperienced walker slid down his rope to safety but only ... In the mid-1970s, Philippe Petit, who drew international acclaim the year before when he secretly rigged and walked ...

Excessive sitting and lying down are detrimental to health, being sedentary behaviors linked to low energy expenditure. They impair metabolic processes, potentially increasing blood sugar and ...

This month marked the 50th anniversary of Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between ... how to react to a daydreaming wire walker laying down and dialoguing with a sea gull,” he recalls.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit ... actually looking down. So I got vertigo. It was kind of easy to write that song because I've sort of lived it with him." Petit also made it clear that this ...

High-wire artist Philippe Petit marked the 50th anniversary of his iconic walk between the World Trade Center's twin towers with a recreation at Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Aug. 7 ...

Philippe Petit and Sting onstage during Philippe Petit's "Towering!!" Premiere at Cathedral of St. John the Divine on August 08, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Craig T Fruchtman/WireImage) Sting ...

Fifty years after Philippe Petit walked high above New York City between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the French high-wire walker marked the anniversary this week with another walk ...