Black Medical Student Publishes Handbook on Recognizing Symptoms on Darker Skin

Malone Mukwende is a second-year student at St. George’s Medical School at the University of London. But in his studies, he noticed the lack of ...

There are Rules, Even if You Don’t Know Them

You don’t have to “know” a rule to know that you should be following it. Take, for example, the rule of ablaut reduplication. Chances ...

Musician Paul Simon and the Great Mysteries of Life

In an interview with NPR, musician/singer Paul Simon was asked about the great mysteries of life:

We don't have the capacity to understand the great ...

Students Receive Free Lesson After Kitchen Fail

If Ripley's Believe It Or Not ever ventured into the realm of cooking shows, this episode would defy the imagination. Three American college students ...

Society Shares More Information than Ever Before

According to a recent book, right now in America there are 1,780 commercial television stations, 15,503 broadcast radio stations, 1,331 newspapers, 2,000,000 ...

Study Shows Men Overestimate Their Own Intelligence

Katelyn Cooper and Sara Brownell, are a doctoral student and assistant professor, respectively, at Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences. ...

The Phrase 'A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep'

In 1889, American journalist and humorist Edgar Nye introduced the phrase "A mile wide and an inch deep." He was referring to a river found in the Midwestern ...

Leonardo da Vinci—How to Be Insatiably Curious

The human brain weighs three pounds. It is the size of a softball, and yet with it we have the capacity to learn something new every second of every minute ...

Reading Habits of Ultra-Successful People

An article on Medium asks, "Want to know one habit ultra-successful people have in common? They read. A lot." Warren Buffett would read 600-1000 ...

Binge Reading Disorder

How much do you read on an average day? Recent research by Lifehack says that "an average social media user 'reads' 285 pieces of content ...