The Key to Success as a Runner

Jess Movold is an elite running coach in New York City. In a recent article for Runner’s World she discussed the top five principles for successful ...

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 ...

The Global Trend of Looking for the Quick Fix

Jeffrey Zacks, professor of psychology and radiology at Washington University in St Louis, laments what he calls a "global trend" of looking for short ...

Man Takes 14 Years to Chisel Hole Through Mountain

When a mountain is in your way what do you do? Just ask Ramchandra Das, 53, who lives in Bihar, India. In order to access nearby fields for food and work, ...

A New Year's Challenge

It is a mistake to be always turning back to recover the past. The law for Christian living is not backward, but forward; not for experiences that lie ...

A New Year's Challenge

It is a mistake to be always turning back to recover the past. The law for Christian living is not backward, but forward; not for experiences that lie ...

Original Marathon Runner Gave His All

At the end of the Summer Olympics, athletes will be participating in a special event, retracing the long distance run from which the Olympic event got ...

Wilma Rudolph Overcame Obstacles to Win Olympic Gold

Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. Born prematurely, doctors did not expect Wilma to survive. She did, but at the age of four, she contracted ...

Brad Pitt on the American Dream

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, celebrity Brad Pitt reflected on his lead role in the movie Fight Club, which is about a man who has the ...

Math Test Humbles the Brainiest Students

In Time Lev Grossman writes:

Every year on the first Saturday in December, twenty-five hundred of the most brilliant college students in North America ...