Painting Once Worth $26 Now Estimated at $26 Million

If anything epitomizes the current cultural fascination with uncovering antique treasures, it would have to be the recent story about the discovery of ...

Americans' Stuff and Junk Obsession

Alison Stewart, a former reporter and news anchor, spent three years investigating America's unhealthy obsession with stuff. Her book, Junk: Digging Through ...

Woman Receives 1000 Percent Tip

A suburban Chicago woman was left stunned over the summer when one of her patrons left a combined tip of over 1,000%. Nicole Thompson, a teacher who worked ...

Librarian Leaves Millions of Dollars to University

Robert Morin, a cataloguer at the University of New Hampshire's library, "lived a simple, frugal life," complete with TV dinners and a car ...

NFL Star Reflects on Near-Death Injury

Ricardo Lockette rose up the ranks of pro football and eventually helped the Seattle Seahawks win the Super Bowl in 2014. But on November 1, 2015, the ...

Book Explores the Power of Rust

In his book Rust: The Longest War, Jonathan Waldman takes us chapter by chapter into the world of oxidation and the problem of rust. He tells the story ...

Your Heart Always Follows Your Money

Suppose you buy shares of General Motors. What happens? You suddenly develop interest in GM. You check the financial pages. You see a magazine article ...

Average American Home Size Increases by 175%

In a series of articles on the nature of greed, Christian blogger Ted Scofield writes:

When I ask people "What is greed?" typically the first concept articulated ...

Ever Wonder How To Spend $1 Billion On A Wedding?

Ever wonder how to spend a $1 billion on a wedding? Hint: include Jennifer Lopez. Last weekend, a couple in Moscow took [the] notion of a lavish wedding ...

Accident Victims Happier Than Lottery Winners

In 2010 The New Yorker magazine summarized the findings of an earlier study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The researchers ...