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From their early verve for music and the promise of a record deal to their misadventures behind the wheels of classic cars, all the way to the crushing tragedy that serves as the book's climactic moment, Rusty, Joey, and Eddie live out their lives like the characters of a Springsteen song. With Johnson's infectious writing style and his palpable love for both his music and his friends, Walk, Don't Run is a song you'll want to experience for yourself—probably more than once.

The London residence of Britain’s sovereigns since 1837 and today the working headquarters of the monarchy, Buckingham Palace is one of Britain’s most popular tourist attractions. Here we look back at seven notable moments in the palace’s near 180-year history…

Better sleep and more productivity during the day could be just around the corner using this very simple technique.

In the last three years, I’ve begun to explore one philosophical system in particular: Stoicism. Though my preferred Stoic writer, Lucius Seneca, I’ve found it to be a simple and immensely practical set of rules for better results with less effort.

A Stanford design and engineering professor says making simple changes to the words and phrases we use can empower us to achieve our goals.

While even experts need guidance from time to time, we put together a starter reference to help you weave through some of the variables and track down modern first editions.

1) “A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.”

Going once, going twice, sold! Wealthy collectors are smashing records at auctions around the world. Here are some of the most expensive items ever sold.

Hollywood has a terrible tendency to take true stories and embellish them until all that's left is a sad husk of truth stuffed with too much questionable artistic license. So let's hope Hollywood doesn't touch the following celebrity biographies, because these underdog tales are dramatic enough.

Posed with the question, “Who invented jazz album cover design?” Most people will instantly say, Blue Note Records, and Reid Miles in particular. But this would be a gross simplification as well as inaccurate.

There’s a stunning website dedicated to Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights,” one of the great (and enduringly popular) treasures of “Early Netherlandish” art. If you should check it out, you’ll be treated to a high-res image of the painting, Dolby-esque sound effects like snarling animals and lapping water, and an erudite series of audio clips explaining certain aspects of the painting, which you can take in sequence (as a tour) or investigate after your own fashion.

Imagine where you want to be someday. Now, how did you get there? Retrograde analysis is a style of problem solving where you work backwards from the endgame you want. It can help you win at chess -- or solve a problem in real life.

Alexa von Tobel is a startup founder, a New York Times best-selling author, and a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship.

Here are five tips for refreshing yourself and rekindling your motivation through taking a mini-vacation:

Inside the 181 pages (not including the index) is a terrific guide for normal folks, and not just government sleuths. It still offers some unique advice, however, and you won't find some of these examples in your copy of the Oxford American Dictionary.

An inventor and entrepreneur who brought us legions of wonderfully gimmicky toys before he died, at 77, in 2003, von Braunhut holds forth about times gone by, interrupted only when his cockatoo chews at the wire connecting his hearing aid to the telephone.

In commercial aviation, you are either a window person or an aisle person (and nobody in their right mind is a center person). While aisle people prefer the convenience of easy escape and extra elbowroom, window people are dreamers, gazing at the clouds and the landscape far below from their 30,000-foot vantage.

Every three years, the Association de la Sommellerie hosts an international competition to choose the best sommelier in the world. But what do people go through to achieve that honor? Here's a hint: A lot.

In this article we discuss a very brief and simplified history of Quantum Mechanics and will quote what the founding fathers of this branch of science had to say about Vedic influence on the development of their theories.

Hummus might be too easy. Easy to pick up and toss in the cart, easy to carry to a summer picnic, and easy to dip practically anything into. But why always resort to storebought hummus? Why not make it yourself?

How New Thought has Taken Center Stage in the Lives of Champion Athletes.

How boss would it be to work in a nostalgic space filled with blue steel desks and the clattering of IBM typewriters?

Here's a few of our favorites quotes from America's "Ol' Blood and Guts."

In reality, musical artists both popular (The Byrds, The Doors, The Mamas and The Papas) and highly influential (Tim Buckley, Love, Buffalo Springfield) hailed from the Greater Los Angeles scene, and helped to define the defiant eclecticism of the era’s popular music nearly as much as their Northern counterparts.

Cooking can be a pretty tricky job, even if you're following a recipe. Luckily, Kit Stone made this enormous infographic to help you shave off some time the next time you run into trouble. These helpful tricks might be even surprise veteran chefs. Just remember that not all these life hacks are guaranteed to work.

This article is especially for best friends, share the best friendship quote that describes you and your friends the most. This article consists of best friendship quotes to share with your amazing friends. Share with us in the comments amazing memories you have with your friends.

There’s just something about climbing into an Aston Martin. The sight. The sound. The beauty. The fact that releasing the parking brake requires a long, detailed explanation.

Happify, a website and app that uses science-based interactive activities aimed at making you happier, created this graphic to demonstrate the potential scientific perks of looking at the glass of life half full:

After a dispute between its creators, the Doves Type was left to lie in the Thames. A century later, it has finally resurfaced. This is the story of its rescue.

One fascinating thing I’ve come to know about confidence is that it’s mostly a set of learned skills and beliefs.

What's the deal with folks like us, huh? Do we eat too much sugar and caffeine? Not get enough sleep or masturbation? Undiagnosed ADD? Or is it the meth? Whatever the cause, if you can stop rearranging the Pacific Rim action figures on your desk and pay attention to what I'm telling you for just 2,000 words, I'll give you some tips that just might save your life. Or marriage. Or job. Oh, and I promise not to make any "har har, what was I talking about?" jokes just because I don't know how to end a paragraph.

We tend to hold history's inventors in high esteem, praising their achievements as the fruit of ingenuity, insight, and painstaking research. But, as Robert Hume reveals, many products through history were stumbled upon merely by chance…

Venture fundraising is a funny thing. It’s a sophisticated game with teams and rules and failures and victories; there’s a lot of skill, sure, but much more luck. All sorts of things can impact a raise: the idea, the team, market conditions, fund dynamics, competing raises. Hell, even the damn weather has an effect.

It's also amazing how close some of TV's most iconic characters lived. So if you live in New York City, or you're planning a trip there, be sure to look out for these 11 locations! We've even included how long it takes to get there from Times Square.

Now, I've been meditating for more than a year — and my life is completely different.

Fitted suits, tie bars, and fedoras are a few of the staples we've came to associate with White Collar's Neal Caffrey, played by Texas-born actor Matt Bomer. Rugged beards and stylish scruffy facial hair? Not this guy, he takes pride in being clean-shaven and immaculately well-groomed. Moderately inspired by Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief" and The Rat Pack Caffrey definitely looks like an Urban Gentleman™ .

Though Vermeer himself achieved modest fame during his own lifetime in his hometown of Delft and in The Hague, he died in debt in 1675, and was subsequently forgotten. Since then, of course, he has become one of the most famous European painters in history, with as much name recognition as fellow Dutch stars, Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

The most successful people know that decision fatigue is the enemy. Here's how to fight it.

What is it about Morgan Freeman’s voice that makes us love it so, tasking it to play the voice of God in movies or to guide us safely to our destination through the navigation app Waze? It turns out, there are some science-backed reasons why Freeman’s voice has so many fans.

Since our mindset is the key factor driving our confidence and self-esteem, let’s talk about 7 things you can learn today to achieve this.

Inspired to host your own feline photo shoot? Johnson provided us with some tips and tricks designed to help you immortalize a kitty's cuteness.

A statuette from the John Huston–Humphrey Bogart classic The Maltese Falcon is one of the most recognizable, and sought-after, pieces of movie memorabilia in history. In fact, Steve Wynn paid $4.1 million for it. But was it the genuine article? Bryan Burrough tracks down a flock of Falcons, with links to both Leonardo DiCaprio and a famous Hollywood unsolved murder.

This inspired economist Don Boudreaux to write a blog post asking, how much money would it take for you to agree to live out your life a century ago? Would you do it for a million dollars? What about a billion dollars? When considering this question, he asks that you keep in mind that in 1916, no matter how rich you were, you would not be able to enjoy any of the following:

Maybe you studied Spanish at school, and as much as you wanted to become fluent you just couldn’t find the time to practice. Or maybe you just felt like you were never making real progress.

The desire to read more books is a noble, and widespread, aspiration. But who has the time?

This list, however, attempts to give you an overview of twenty New Wave tracks that share a certain rebellion against traditional overtly masculine corporate rock. To say the very least.

The day-to-day can get to be a drag, and especially now that the weather is beginning to perk up, you might be wanting to get out for an adventure. Why don’t you mix things up a little bit? Here are some excellent places in Pennsylvania to visit if you want to feel a little bit brave…or just exhilarated.

Here are the origin stories behind 7 of the most widely shared memes on the internet.

The Grateful Dead is often credited with popularizing hippie culture, but to the legion of followers who eventually left their VW busses to join corporate America, the band is a pioneer of common business and marketing strategies.