Research Shows Having Solid Friends Adds Years to Life

In his blog, Eric Barker cites an important study on the crucial value of friendship:

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Brigham ...

Costly Damages Traced to Reckless Gamers Doing Good Thing Badly

A study released by researchers at Purdue University recently traced millions of damages to users behaving recklessly in their attempts to play the massively ...

Legal Definition of a Facebook 'Friendship'

Are your friends on Facebook actually your friends? According to an appeals court in Florida, "[l]egally, Facebook friends aren't necessarily ...

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

In her book Grapes of Wrath Or Grace, Barabra Brokhoff tells the following story:

A group of American tourists were taking a bus tour in Rome led by an ...

Shared Dreams Push Us to Excel

In their book, Known, Dick and Ruth Foth write that:

During the Great Depression, nine ordinary young men from the University of Washington accomplished ...

Local Church Provides Widows a Way Out of Poverty

After losing her husband, Tinashe Butau of Zimbabwe was now a single mother with four children to feed, and she needed to find a way to provide. When ...

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

In his beautiful TEDx talk, John Sutherland, an officer in London's police department, explains a principle in forensic science called Locard's ...

The 'Cookie Cutter' Approach to Make French Fries

Eric Schlosser's book and then movie, Fast Food Nation, exposed the dark side of the fast-food industry. At one point, Schlosser described a food-production ...

31-Year-Old Climber Completes Solo, Gear-Free Summit of Yosemite's El Capitan

In Yosemite National Park stands a 3,000-foot wall of granite known as El Capitan. It's long been a rock climber's dream, but it's a daring ...

We Long for 'The Village' Connection We Never Had

Author Bunmi Laditan wrote a powerful essay a few years back called "I Miss the Village." In it she says that she goes throughout her everyday ...