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 ...

New Year's Resolutions Help Sharpen Our Focus

In his book A Journey to Bethlehem, Jason Soroski offers the following definitions of a resolution:

Resolution. Webster defines the word as being "marked ...

Amazing Little Bird Follows God-Given Homing Signal

According to Robert Krulwich's blog on NPR, a small bird called the bar-tailed godwit grows up in northern Alaska, but every fall they fly nearly 7,000 ...

How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds

The Wall Street Journal reports that Adrian Ward, a cognitive psychologist and marketing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been studying ...

Jerry Seinfeld's Intense Dedication to His Craft

Some people make their craft look easy, but there are often years of discipline and practice behind their craft. Consider the comedian Jerry Seinfeld. ...

The Power of a 'Not-To-Do' List

Has your working day become one long battle to wade through a to-do list? An article on BBC.com noted the multiple distractions of the modern world—digital ...

Aldi Succeeds by Limiting Choice

About 70 years ago, brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht, fresh from military service in World War II, took over their family's store in Germany, a mining ...

Police Academy Uses Rubber Chicken to Help Recruits Focus

Police academies are known to involve rigorous physical and mental tests in their curriculum to ensure that recruits are prepared for the harshness of ...

The Internet Trains Us toward Superficial Thinking

Nicholas Carr, an expert on how technology is shaping our minds and lives, lamented how the Internet is, in his words, "chipping away at [his] capacity ...

The Man Who Saved the World by Thinking Small

There are a handful of "hinge" moments in world history. June 6, 1944, or D-Day, was one of those moments. On that day hung the balance of power in World ...