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.

Recently, the third floor of Cristo ...

Paul McCartney Still Has Something to Prove

In an interview with Esquire Magazine, former Beatles star Paul McCartney, now aged 75 (as of 2017), was asked if he felt that he still had something ...

Old Trees don't Get Taller, They Bulk Up like a Bodybuilder

Old trees may not grow taller every year, but they do keep bulking up—like a human bodybuilder. That's the summary of recent research into the life ...

As the Human Body Has No Insignificant Parts, So Also the Body of Christ

The three smallest bones in the human body are the middle ear ossicles—the malleus, incus, and stapes—more commonly known as the hammer, anvil, ...

Unlikeliest Baseball Player Hits Record with Help from Teammates

For more than a century of Major League Baseball, only 16 men have homered four times in one game. The last was Josh Hamilton, five years ago. Most of ...

College Admissions Committee Accepts Recommendation by School Custodian

Rebecca Sabky, an undergraduate admissions counselor at an Ivy League School, reads over 2,000 college applications every year. She writes: "The applicants ...

The Crucifixion of Jesus Is Unique Among Famous Deaths

There have been many famous deaths in world history; we might think of John F. Kennedy, or Marie Antoinette, or Cleopatra, but we do not refer to "the ...

The Incredible Story of an Unimpressive Pen

The next time you're signing your name at the DMV or another U.S. Government office, you probably won't notice the black pen in your hand. It, after all, ...

A South African Greeting for 'I See You'

In their book Next Door As It Is in Heaven, authors Lance Ford and Brad Briscoe discuss the profound loneliness people are regularly experiencing in our ...

Writers and TV Shows Reveal Pain of Aging

In 1975, a 63-year-old Elizabeth Bishop wrote to her long-time friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell, who was then 58 and just two years from his death. ...