NYC’s First Ever Affordable Watch Fair

Today through 25 October, digital publication worn&wound (known for reviewing affordably priced timepieces) will be hosting a NYC first. At 101 Wooster St in Soho, more than 18 boutique watch brands—all with reasonably priced offerings—are joining the website for a pop-up affordable watch fair, featuring both quartz and automatic watches. With many CH favorites represented, it will be a worthy event for novices and collectors …

The Most Popular Halloween Costumes, According to Google

Think you’ve come up with a one-of-a-kind Halloween costume? You may want to check with Google’s Frightgeist before heading out. Created by the search giant’s News Lab, the interactive data visualization taps into Google Trends to display the top Halloween costume searches—both locally and nationally—to give users an idea of what to expect when trick-or-treating. Right now, the most searched character in the United States …

“Kissing” Stars

Scientists have spotted two massive, super-hot stars twirling into each other about 160,000 light years away. The nearly identical stars are so close together (about 7.5 million miles away from each other) that their surfaces overlap—making them appear as if they’re kissing. If the stars continue on their paths, two outcomes are possible: they will merge together and form a single, massive star in a …