The Miracle of the Mundane

Author Heather Havrilesky writes about finding meaning in the mundaneness of everyday life using Mozart as the example:

Mozart’s father, Leopold, ...

Bruce Springsteen's Deepest Yearning

Bruce Springsteen’s father cast a long and mostly dark shadow over his life, said Michael Hainey in Esquire. Springsteen admits that his entire ...

Man Blames Drunken Accident on Losing Football Team

Officers filed charges of driving while intoxicated against Christopher Greyshock, a resident of West Milford, after his rear-end collision into another ...

Sinkholes and Choices

Have you ever seen a sinkhole? Cars can be parked on a street day after day, and everything appears normal, then one day the asphalt caves in and cars ...

Soon There Will Be More Plastic than Fish in the Ocean

A garbage truck's worth of plastic enters the world's ocean every minute of every day. All told, humanity dumped up to 14 million tons of plastic ...

Christians Creating Community in Apartment Complexes

Phil Cooke and Jonathan Bock write that in 1997, Stan Dobbs left a career in the computer industry and packed up for seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. While ...

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 ...

Pumpkin Spice Air Freshener Causes School Evacuation

'Tis the season for pumpkin spice—but one Baltimore school has probably had quite enough of it for the year.

The third floor of Cristo Rey Jesuit ...

SpaceX Publishes Video Compilation of All its Failures

SpaceX, the California space technology company that has pioneered the science of safely returning used rocket boosters to earth in recent years, uploaded ...

Closing Your Eyes doesn't Hide the Truth

Former Maryland poet laureate Lucille Clifton wrote a poem in which she pictures herself trying to keep her eyes closed, ignoring the truth. But then ...