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For those who love books, but don’t have enough time for reading. Here are the best books you can read in under an hour each.

Hormones and energy ebb and flow, so what’s the best time to tackle your to-do list and stay motivated?

The solution to your skin issues, from eczema to psoriasis, could be in your head.

The Virgin Founder recently answered a reader’s question by listing six things that every fledgling entrepreneur should bear in mind when starting up…

Fortunately, here are six vegetables and herbs you can grow indoors using parts of the produce you would throw away anyways, and this can save you a pretty penny the next time you go grocery shopping.

Well, we don't guarantee that any of the below will work for you -- all we can say is that smarter people than us have gotten them to work under scientifically controlled conditions. They also happen to cost absolutely nothing, so if you need to force you brain to start thinking outside the box, try to ...

Obviously, shipwrecks represent a tragedy, the loss of life or property or both. But shipwrecks can also be dazzlingly beautiful, adding character and history to otherwise unbroken natural vistas. As far as discarded junk goes, you really can't beat the ruins of ships for pure atmosphere. All across the world, the rotting remains of boats that were forgotten due to accident or obsolescence still sit like glimpse into our own future downfall. Check out seven of the most beautiful shipwrecks in the world.

It all comes down to one over-arching question: Does your stuff make you happy — or in Kondo's words, spark joy? "If it does, keep it," she writes. "If not, dispose of it."

Granted, reading FashionBeans probably equips you with more than enough sartorial knowledge to impress your squad. But if you’ve become the go-to man among your peers for style advice and set the agenda in terms of how to dress for a night out/work/a few days in Ibiza, then perhaps you’re running low on modish pearls of wisdom.

Earlier this month, to celebrate Star Wars Day (“May the 4th be with you!”), we rounded up 37 amazing facts about the Star Wars saga. But being that today marks the 35th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back’s premiere, we couldn’t let the day pass without shining a little extra saber-provided light on the Oscar-winning second entry in the original trilogy. So here are 10 more fascinating facts about one of the most frequently misquoted films in the history of cinema.

It feels so easy to say, yet so hard to do. ‘Just be happy!’ – If only it were that simple.

Did you know that you can greatly increase your strength, stamina and endurance by simply doing outdoor exercise?

Mezzanine debt gets its name because it blurs the lines between what constitutes debt and equity. It is the highest-risk form of debt, but it offers some of the highest returns -- a typical rate is in the range of 12%-20% per year.

Write the ideas down. If they are going to be stories, try and tell the stories you would like to read. Finish the things you start to write. Do it a lot and you will be a writer. The only way to do it is to do it.

Decide that you’re going to keep working at it until your reach your goal. The word “de-cide” literally means “to cut away from”. Think of the other strong commitments you’ve made in your life. There’s no turning back, you stick to it consistently and keep moving forward, no matter what. Make this same kind of commitment to your goal.

But one thing I like to keep in mind is that success isn't just about external factors. Part of being truly successful, in all facets of life, involves balance. Below are what I consider to be five of the most important choices we can all make to optimize both our success, and our sense of balance, in our lives.

Nicholas Roemmelt’s photography is enough to make any person whose day job involves a computer and a desk question his or her life choices. In addition to shooting just plain stunning photos of nature, he sometimes makes us extra envious of his adventures by adding himself or his wife to a jaw-droppingly beautiful landscape.

Influence can be a very important ally in a negotiation. If used strategically, it can prove to be a decisive factor in the amount of power you have during the negotiation.

Putting play into life doesn’t always mean you have to stop what you are doing and play some silly game; it also doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to plan some extravagant activity (although you can do that once in awhile to treat yourself).  You can insert play into every aspect of you life an in every moment.  Here are some great ways to incorporate fun and play throughout the day.

While $1,000,000 is a big number, it can be attained. The journey to $1 million may be a long one, but each step along the way is not difficult. In fact, each step is down right easy. With the right planning, commitment, and execution, anybody can become a millionaire. While there are certainly more than 5 ways to build wealth, what follows are 5 of the most practical concepts and methods that anybody can follow to become a millionaire in the making.

Tools are how we turned primate starvation into "I'd like my steak rare, with a bottle of red." Most of our tools merely obey the laws of physics, but lasers are the laws of physics. We caged quantum mechanics to cut perfect lines through a complicated universe. A single pen laser would tell aliens more about our genius than the complete works of Shakespeare. The laser demonstrates mastery of mind, math, and matter. Shakespeare makes us look like lemmings committed to suicide by misunderstanding. Behold the brilliance of five laser systems being built or already shining right now.

Every Memorial Day, we proudly remember the heroes who served this country with parades, poppies, and the lowering of our American Flag to half-staff until noon, when we again raise it high to let those colors fly. But while we'll never forget the people who sacrificed so much for our freedom, we might gloss over the history of Old Glory herself.

Pilots and crews decorated their planes with colorful art work during World War II.

So there it was… This input field with a pulsating cursor, waiting for me to type a password that I’ll have to re-enter for the next 30 days. Many times during the day.

Small business owners and employees who work from home and who maintain a home office can deduct up to $1,500 per year in an easy way. The new option allows qualified taxpayers to annually deduct $5 per square foot of home office space on up to 300 square feet, for as much as $1,500 in deductions. To take advantage of the new option, taxpayers will complete a much simpler version of the current 43-line form.

The study of how often human beings do irrational things was enough for psychologists Daniel Kahneman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and it opened the rapidly expanding field of behavioral economics. Similar insights are also reshaping everything from marketing to criminology

Before your next visit to a major tourist attraction, brace yourself -- for better or for worse -- by learning what you're really in for.

By now, you already know that prolonged sitting is bad for your body. But what exactly goes on when you sit for hours every day? This graphic from the Washington Post explains.

This is probably the best way to spend 90 seconds of your day.

One thing I’ve learned up to this point in life is that the mind has a memory. And it’s damn smart; it “subconsciously” recognizes patterns. Once the patterns become a habit, it’s hard to stop. It requires extra mental strength to break the habit.

With the unofficial start to the summer season, a look back at how women dressed for the beach in 1950.

From tuna melts to Italian subs, there's a vast world of sammies to explore. Let's get started.

A hard-to-define catch-all word of good intentions and emotions, you’ll hear aloha everywhere. It’s commonly used as a greeting or parting, but it means so much more than any dictionary definition you’ll find. Literally meaning “the presence of breath,” aloha is also used to denote love, affection and kindness. In Hawaii, people live with aloha, drive with aloha, and surf with aloha, and it’s actually considered to be an unofficial state “law.”

Back in the 1900s, cigarette manufactures used to insert stiffening cards into their paper cigarette packs to add strength and help them last longer. Along the way, someone had the bright idea of printing trivia, artwork and even famous people and athletes (Honus Wagner anyone?) onto the stiffening cards.

The technological singularity is a hypothetical moment in the future when artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from human intelligence—and capable of creating smarter iterations of itself. Apply the same general idea to simulations and you get the "simulation singularity": when a simulated world is indistinguishable from reality.

Most of us know the basic formula for weight loss: If calories out exceed calories in, the pounds will fall off. But what sounds so simple can actually be a bit complicated when you consider the “calories out” half of the equation.

“What I want to do is get exclusive distribution rights for their product in the U.S. Since I’m a novice at this, I would appreciate your direction. What should my next step be?”

Please enjoy and share these Charles F. Haanel quote-images. Spread the good “vibes” and perhaps make someone’s day.

Humans experience an array of emotions, anything from happiness, to sadness to extreme joy and depression. Each one of these emotions creates a different feeling within the body. After all, our body releases different chemicals when we experience various things that make us happy and each chemical works to create a different environment within the body. For example if your brain releases serotonin, dopamine or oxytocin, you will feel good and happy. Conversely, if your body releases cortisol while you are stressed, you will have an entirely different feeling associated more with the body kicking into survival mode. What about when we are thinking negative thoughts all the time? Or how about when we are thinking positive thoughts? What about when we are not emotionally charged to neither positive nor negative? Let’s explore how these affect our body and life.

By now we're all familiar with the many benefits of a meditation practice. From experiencing more positive emotions, to better health and increased focus, meditation can and will also change your life.

In Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace, released this week, Nikil Saval tries to put his finger on just where the office went wrong. Certainly an improvement on factory work and types of manual labor, the office remains “at once harmless and ominous.” Saval’s story centers on the question: “Why have the best intentions of planners and architects, designers and executives, fallen short of producing a happy environment for the American worker?”

Time is seen in a particularly different light by Eastern and Western cultures, and even within these groupings assumes quite dissimilar aspects from country to country. In the Western Hemisphere, the United States and Mexico employ time in such diametrically opposing manners that it causes intense friction between the two peoples. In Western Europe, the Swiss attitude to time bears little relation to that of neighboring Italy. Thais do not evaluate the passing of time in the same way that the Japanese do. In Britain the future stretches out in front of you. In Madagascar it flows into the back of your head from behind.

One lucky research assistant caught a rare show in the Straits of Gibraltar last week, as a fin whale was spotted breaching the water three times in a row, right in front of her. While fin whales do sometimes breach, it's rarely seen and even more rarely caught on camera.

Entrepreneurs work hard all year long to ensure their businesses become successful and stay successful, but everyone needs a break to relax and reflect. If you start feeling guilty about heading to the beach this summer don’t. Here is a list of summer reads that will keep you thinking and inspired -- even from your Adirondack.

As the weather warms, many of us would prefer to look like we passed our winter days lounging by the pool instead of hunched before a computer screen or lab bench. But soaking up the rays to acquire a so-called “base tan” does not fool the sun or a tanning bed. Simply put, the benefits of being sun-kissed are not even skin-deep.

If a German Shepard puppy were drowning in the ocean, what would you do? I’m betting that you would go out in the ocean to save his  life (well, at least if you have a heart). What if that puppy was now a vicious 400 pound black bear? That’s exactly what happened when a black bear wandered inside a Florida community, shot with a tranquilizer dart, and started walking towards the ocean in a trance light state.   That’s exactly what Adam Warwick, a marine biologist, did in order to save this bear’s life, while risking sever injury or even death.

Here are some facts I learned from watching this classic episode of How It's Made, focusing on the Rolls-Royce factory in Goodwood, England...