“I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading. You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours...”
Cutting water consumption requires more consideration than you'd think.
Over a quarter century after 82 Branch Davidians and 4 federal officers were killed, Byron Sage is still arguing about what happened.
The National Park Service is trying to rid the park of burros. But new research suggests that they may actually benefit native species.
If you think running for office is hard, try doing it with a baby.
It’s hard to remember musical life online before Twitter knocked down the barriers separating previously isolated social groups—musicians, critics, fans, messageboarders, industry types, bored onlookers—and let their thoughts commingle.
People want to cook and eat together. Modern life has other plans.
Why is it so difficult to teach people how to think critically?
Is it possible within the current NBA schedule to obtain consistent, quality sleep?
Working from anywhere: the good, the bad, the lovely.
Deep learning is good at finding patterns in reams of data, but can't explain how they're connected. Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio wants to change that.
A visit to a Colonial debutante ball in Texas where girls wear hundred-pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington—and the question of what it means to find yourself in the in-between.
The chickens have become almost a cult item. So Costco is willing to go to extreme lengths to keep them at $4.99.
We’ve done the hard work for you and rounded up the 21 best science fiction fantasy series of all time, in no particular order.
As the American people got fatter, so did marmosets, vervet monkeys and mice. The problem may be bigger than any of us.
Step into the private kitchens of Basque country's sociedades gastronómicas, where everything revolves around food.
The myth that running causes osteoarthritis and ruins your knees has long been debunked. But what if your joints are already ruined?
Have a fight in your life and you don’t know what to do? Well, you’ve come to the right place.
Silicon Valley is keen to exploit the brain chemical credited with keeping us tapping on apps and social media.
No need to play it cool. Neglecting negative emotions won’t bring you peace of mind.
You may think your body ages at its own pace regardless of your state of mind, but research says otherwise.
A father reflects on an experience that is becoming more common.
These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing.
How these curbside canvases came to be, according to the men who make them.
The president and the physicist teach us a lesson about moral genius.
Don’t hope to increase productivity with the occasional stroke of genius.
“So many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence.”
It was meant to be a seafood paradise.
Effective leaders have to get picky about how they’re spending their time.
At the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, in Vienna, the world-record holder, Eliud Kipchoge, will face long-distance running’s most daunting barrier—likely for the last time.
With one store left in the world, the video retailer's approaching extinction is a reminder of all the things that can go wrong in retail.
Searching for a lost history in Connemara.
History shows a cycle of apprehension and acceptance about games that is very like events of modern times.
A study finds evidence for how to reduce some of it, but also a large blind spot on how to remove the rest.
Where do you want to be in five years? Do you have the skills you need to get there? If you don’t, you might have to climb down the career ladder before you can start climbing back up again—and yes, that might mean taking a pay cut.
Plunging into the ocean near Antarctica, Lewis Pugh was determined to push the limits of human endurance.
What is Brexit? Why can’t Britain get a deal? And more answers ahead of the October 31 deadline.
Blaming young people’s feelings of defeat on a lack of grit is ‘simplistic and counterproductive,’ experts say.
What’s kind of parent are you? The answer is happily clear: It doesn’t matter, not in the least.
On October 6, Nabongo became the first documented black woman and first Ugandan to travel to every sovereign nation. Here’s what she learned along the way.
For the best part of two centuries people's life expectancy has been improving at a pretty rapid and consistent rate. But then it suddenly stopped—or rather rapidly slowed. The turning point was 2011.
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to.
Most serious urban violence is concentrated among less than 1 percent of a city’s population. So why are we still criminalizing whole areas?
As Spain simultaneously persecuted its Jews and expanded its colonies in the Americas, conversos secretly came over to the New World. Their legacy lives on in DNA.
Learn faster. Retain more. Maybe even become the smartest person in the room. Science says so.
There’s a reason Big Tech knows us so much better than we think – each of us is far more normal than we realise.
Discovering one’s “purpose” in life is not about some great achievement, but merely finding a way to spend your limited amount of time well.
Sometimes everybody wins when you go it alone.
Some things that take whole sentences to describe in English are a single word in another language.
Intelligent, devoted, alien – parrots are unlike any other pet. But what does the complex human-avian bond say about us?
Before it was the megalithic event that towered over the music landscape, the Indio, California, festival was a money-losing weekend in the desert.