I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

One out of every 25 kindergarteners will be getting a new fall assessment this year. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) says this new fall assessment is designed to help make sure kids leave ...

Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder in the Austin Metcalf stabbing case but due to ‘sudden passion’ he might get a reduced sentence. Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder in Austin ...

Karmelo Anthony’s sobbing mother, Kayla Hayes, begged a Texas jury for mercy Tuesday just moments after her 19-year-old son was convicted of murdering fellow teen Austin Metcalf. “Please have mercy on ...

The mathematically named new works of Along the River are disorienting, illusive and seem to offer a flash of the secret sequences that underpin the physical world Why do we find things beautiful?

Mackenzie Shirilla is to spend a number of years in prison after she was found guilty of murdering her then-boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan. Shirilla, 17 at the time, drove a car at ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, working with 15 collaborators around the world, has conducted the most ...

What’s the best way to handle criticism, especially if it seems unfounded, unkind, and motivated by hostility? You can ignore it. You can respond. Or you can use it to propel you forward. That’s what ...

Maybe he was confused. Or scared. But the confession had to be true. Surely Christopher Barbour just got the name wrong and identified the wrong man who raped a Montgomery woman before Barbour stabbed ...

A lot of people switch to LED headlights expecting a clear upgrade, but then something feels off. The road might look brighter, yet oncoming drivers keep flashing back. That usually isn’t a brightness ...

Experts often say that the secret to motivation is purpose. They say we all need to know that what we do is contributing to some greater good. That’s always seemed problematic to me, though. Let’s say ...