Virginia McLaurin, 106, danced, jigged, and whooped her way across the room when she met Barack and Michelle Obama for Black History Month.

In some settings, more than 90% of the time and effort invested isn't in the actual 'work', but in getting setting up, debugging and then polishing the work. Heart surgery, for example, might take five hours to perform, but the...

I’ve always been a do-it-yourself investor. This habit started around age 19 with a series of ridiculous speculative trades in individual high-tech company stocks. “This stock is sure t…

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Sometimes, you want to win really hard. So hard, you don't even try to do it fairly… or competently.

Deep Thwings Charles Franklin Thwing is a largely forgotten but impressive figure from the early twentieth century. He graduated Harvard in the 1870s,

Something very big, out beyond Neptune, is warping the orbits of small, icy objects circling our sun. Astronomers haven't seen it yet, but say the culprit could be a planet with 10 times Earth's mass.

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Brad Duke won $220 million in the lottery in 2005. Duke talks about the moment he realized he'd won, and how his life changed after winning.

Delaying the completion of a project may actually make you more creative.

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In “Dancing, So As Not to Be Dead,” Ray Bradbury’s introduction to The Illustrated Man, he starts with a story about Laurent, a waiter in Paris, who spends his life between working and dancing. “I …

Aside from the celebrity-studded White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the annual State of the Union address is Washington's ultimate see-and-be-seen affair. Members of Congress jockey for coveted positions along the House chamber's…