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Olympic Marathoner Finds Joy in Bad Situation
In the lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympics, many people believed Brazilian soccer legend Pelé would light the Olympic cauldron to officially kick ...
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Japanese Word for 'Golden Repair'
There is a Japanese word, kintsukuroi, that means "golden repair." It is the art of restoring broken pottery with gold so the fractures are literally ...
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Everyone Wants to Be King of the Hill
Public radio program This American Life ran a special report on a certain sub-culture of people whose prize possessions are their car stereos. They are ...
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President Lincoln's Darkness Turns to Hope
A scan through the statements of President Abraham Lincoln reveals a man who underwent some very dark days. Consider, at the start of the War Between ...
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Athletes Blame Woes on Defective Soccer Balls
During the 2002 Soccer World Cup, Adidas introduced their Fevernova soccer ball, which featured a new design that was supposed to make the ball follow ...
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Missionary Doctor Never Saw His 'Success'
In 1912, medical missionary Dr. William Leslie went to live and minister to tribal people in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...
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NFL Star Lambasts Shallow Prayers
Fran Tarkenton, a former All-Pro quarterback who led his team to three Super Bowls, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal lambasting himself and ...
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Professor Posts a 'Failure Resume'
We all have failures in our careers. But usually we keep quiet about it. Not this Princeton professor, who recently shared his CV of failures on Twitter ...
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Teaching Kids the Power of Struggle
New research from social scientists has revealed that telling kids stories of real-life "superheroes" and "geniuses" is a good idea—if ...
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Tom Hanks on the Fear of Faking It
In his new film (2016), A Hologram for the King, Tom Hanks plays a middle-aged American businessman who is sent to Saudi Arabia for a special project. ...
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