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“Good writing is not a natural gift. You have to learn to write well. Here are 10 hints.”

So please find a dozen of our community's most-loathed annoyances below, as culled from a few epic Facebook and Twitter conversations. If you have even more misgivings about how people misuse their missives, let us know in the comments.

Over the last couple years, an increasingly popular trend online has been to create and share colorized photos from history. Artists such as Jordan Lloyd, Dana Keller and Sanna Dullaway take intriguing old black-and-white photos and bring them to life with color as if they’d been taken only yesterday.

We’ve put together a list of the 75 jazz guitar albums that we think are the greatest ever. There are musicians that we’ve included that you may never have heard of, but every one is worth exploring.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz believes travel will help you more. He's tired of seeing the same types of resumes and argues that young people should take a gap year before they start their careers or college.

It isn’t motivation that creates success, but habit and action. The most successful people in the world definitely have passion for what they do, but passion that isn’t accompanied by action is rendered useless.

For pet photography to be a truly special work of art and not just a picture you could’ve taken with your phone at the bark park, it has to really capture something about the dog or cat that shows their personality. Zmyslowska absolutely nails this. “Every pet is different, not only in terms of appearance.” She says. “My goal is to show the uniqueness in the photo.”

This orange creamsicle ic ecream is a cross between a really smooth creamy ice cream and a more fruity icy sherbet.  Best of both worlds and it is mostly fruit!

Marriage researcher John Gottman studied thousands of couples over the last 30 years in his book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work gives the secret to a solid relationships is to build a friendship. This involves cultivating some relatively simple skills and behaviors.

There are two kinds of butter in life (and at the grocery store): The butter you cook with for fat and flavor, and the butter that is the star of the show – the one you spread on toast, or add as a finishing touch to an otherwise bland baked potato.

Mapping the greatest cultural and scientific advances in modern history with inspiration from John Cage’s music.

Average copywriters write average sentences. You, I’m guessing, don’t want to be average.

You have 3 seconds to react to an attack...do you know what to do?

While we go about our busy lives, smoking pipes and seeing things through rose-tinted monocles, we don't ever stop realize how the littlest things tend to make everything we do that much easier.

You cannot change anything unless first you believe in your ability to drive change.

Here are 12 things Stanley Kubrick would do in order to perfect a shot, performance, or film.

Fifteen minutes isn’t much time, right? Wrong. There are lots of things you can get done in 15 minutes.

But what if I said there was a way to invest that could remove much (though not all) of the risk associated with rapid stock-market corrections and recessions?

I will take one of each please, thank you.

Did you know that the human brain has a known storage capacity of 256 exabytes? Or, the equivalent of 1.2-billion normal PC hard drives? If not, that is just one of the many random and bizarre, yet true, science facts that we’ve rounded up for you today. Continue reading to see them all.

Harvard students get near-perfect SAT scores. These are smart, smart kids. So they shouldn't have trouble with a simple logic question, right?

So my challenge to you today is this:  Start looking at life’s harsh realities and toughest challenges as friends that are going to help you grow.

One of the things that surprises me time and time again is how we think our brains work and how they actually work.

Short of mastering chess in five moves or teaching yourself fifteen languages before turning seventeen, there are a number of ways for the “average” person to exhibit signs of excellence in the brains department.

If this depiction of space is correct, then like any computer, there is an inherent limit to the universe’s data storage and processing capacity.

You might find this hard to believe, but Dead Poets Society turned 25 on June 9. I know. Nothing like making me feel super ancient, huh world?

In honor of Women's Health Week, here are 10 health myths no woman needs to listen to again!

Charlotte Vignon, Curator of Decorative Arts, introduces the exhibition Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries, Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France, on view at the Frick Collection until May 17, 2015. For more information about this exhibition, please visit www.frick.org/donquixote.

Driven by insatiable greed and pursuing his firm’s self-interest above all else, the story goes, Rockefeller conspired to obtain an unfair advantage over his competitors through secret, preferential rebate contracts (discounts) with the railroads that shipped oil.

Have you dreamed of being a published author? You can do it! All you need is a good idea, some self-discipline, and this three-part seminar hosted by three successful industry veterans.

“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.”

I tried to focus on the lesser-known ideas (avoiding the obvious and the abused) … and, more important, how they can apply to you today.

Forrester chronicles many hilarious and delightful words in Passing English; we don't know how these phrases ever fell out of fashion, but we propose bringing them back.

These mistakes are so sneaky that many Goal Setting courses actually teach them as a part of their achievement strategy. Yet they are so harmful, that they easily account for 80% of failed goals, unmet New Year’s resolutions and wasted Goal Setting efforts.

Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston,doesn’t have Sandberg’s high profile, but she’s done the homework (and research) that’s missing from Sandberg’s book, laying it out in a fascinating science-based book on sex differences, “Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes.”

You need two things to break the smoking habit:

Today, thousands of startups succeed in persuading new users to sign up for products — in some cases, sight unseen. We talk to executives from successful, young startups to see how they’ve been able to influence potential customers to take the plunge.

Rocky wasn’t just a boxer. He was a marathoner.

Since music is such a big part of our lives, I thought it would be interesting and useful to have a look at some of the ways we react to it without even realizing.

Take a moment and internalize these thoughts, and you’ll be on your way to a better tomorrow.

Remember: trading is a business. Treat the stock market with respect and you will be around a lot longer than most investors.

Many productivity books tell you what you can do MORE of in order to achieve goals, purpose, success money, etc. But MORE is hard to do. I’m already busy. Now you tell me I have to make a to-do list with six things that make me feel grateful on top of it? I can’t do it all.

So this rather proficient guitar player had a cool idea: put his iPhone in his guitar, play for a while, and record what it picked up.

But what, exactly, lies behind this amorphous phenomenon we call “intuition”?

The DeLorean was known for a lot of things. Speed was not one of them. Underpowered even by early 1980s standards, it was a bizarre choice for a time machine that needed to hit 88 MPH to cross the temporal barrier. But could Doc Brown’s car even go that fast in the Twin, er, Lone Pine Mall parking lot like it does in the first Back to the Future?

Relatively few entrepreneurs have MBAs, but I'll bet that almost all of the successful ones have read and truly treasure these seven short, easy-to-read classics: