Gillian Reynolds-Titko is the new face of today’s classic American career story. When her 20-year-long, high-paying career as a research physicist vanished, she was a woman in her 50s who had to retrain herself for a new career. She decided…
If you like looking at things that make your head hurt and fill you with a mounting sense of confused rage, you’re probably a fan of optical illusions. They’re frustrating, but they’re also kind of cool once you’ve figured them…
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, If you want to outline the numerous failures of ideological and economic socialism, just name any socialist nation and you are sure to uncover an endless supply of examples. In fact, many countries where…
Over the past few months, Cassini took the closest pictures of Saturn’s rings we’ve ever seen that it was pretty easy to forget that the probe was nearing its end. It actually dove in and out of the rings to…
George Burgess, the director for the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History and contributor to "SharkFest," explains what people can do to avoid a shark attack. Following is a transcript of the video. Shark…
Transparent SSL and HTTPS are technical aspects of how a website is set up, and marketers may not have a lot of time to think about them. But making sure they are in place—especially before a set of Chrome updates…
Shutterstock The internet is filled with a lot of cool optical illusions. In fact, we’ve shared a lot of them over the years. Ones we that we thought were worthy of your attention because they were truly legit brain teasers.…
The 1929 stock market crash became the benchmark to which all other market crashes have been compared. The following graphs of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed, the dot-com crash, and the stock market crash during…
You’re not just imagining it. Girls are starting to think about their ideal body at an earlier age. In her book Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women, psychology researcher Renee Engeln cites the infuriating…
Ditch the tanning oil and margarita mix for some one-of-a-kind mountain biking complete with underground swimming holes, spider monkeys, and secret ruins. An hour drive south of the Cancun strip mountain bikes emerge from the jungle. The area is hot and flat.…