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Would today’s students soar to greater heights if schools took the advice of Jay Matthews, devoted more time to reading and writing, and were mentored by teachers who did the same?

Simple, timeless, and unpretentious, “A Charlie Brown Christmas Special” became a holiday tradition since its first airing on Dec. 9, 1965.

How Amazon's Super-Complex Shipping System Works.

Matthew Cossolotto believes that it is time to banish fear about public speaking.

Iconic musician and producer Nile Rodgers and industry executive and entrepreneur Merck Mercuriadis discuss the elusive recipe of what makes a song speak to us through the ages.

“Visualization is the human being’s vehicle to the future – good, bad, or indifferent. It’s strictly in our control.” — Earl Nightingale

Tune in and learn about how you can unleash your inner genius, and Michael’s brilliant insights on the Price of Leadership.

Half a century ago, on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins arrived four days later to a place no human being had ever been before.

You can be more productive, free up time in your day, and finally make that yoga class.

Delivered in the fall of 1973 and collectively titled "The Unanswered Question," Bernstein's lectures covered a lot of terrain, touching on poetry, linguistics, philosophy and physics.

The Story of Living in my Car to Buying a Lamborghini Aventador

What makes them power words isn’t necessarily the words themselves, but the way in which they’re used.

There are only few language learners who dazzle me, and Benny Lewis is one of them.

Kirby Chambliss talks risk, fitness, and what nearly 12gs of force actually feels like.

July 20, 1969 marks the greatest day in human history.

Paper, books, wooden joints, tea whisks — Japanese culture has, for seemingly all of its long recorded history, greatly esteemed the making of objects.

Five Personality Tests that Will Fascinate You

Roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide are currently learning a foreign language. If you are one of them, this article is for you.

March 14 is the 138th anniversary of Einstein's birth. Celebrate with these quotes that have nothing to do with E=mc2.

A few years ago, I bought some fresh eggs from a friend who owned chickens. They were wonderful.

Every day we encounter thousands of signs and symbols. We actually use some of them to express our strongest feelings when we can’t find the right words. But have you ever wondered about those symbols’ origins? And are we using them in the correct manner?

One day a Cuban illustrator walked unannounced into the MAD Magazine offices, and the rest is history.

Since the 1950s there has been an intellectual vogue in running down the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), whose post-war bestseller “The Power of Positive Thinking” made him the official smiley face of positive-mind spirituality.

We never see the world exactly as it is — our entire experience of it is filtered through the screen of our longings and our fears, onto which project the interpretation we call reality.

Here is a quick and easy way to clear frost off your windshield and most of you already have the ingredients in your home.

An inquirer asked a teacher, “How can I command whatever happens to me?”

There's something beautifully terrifying about this photo, taken several years ago, of a woman sitting on top of the Chrysler Building...

It's been said that the ability to write well helps a person to achieve focus, which leads to better, clearer thinking.

Delivered in the fall of 1973 and collectively titled “The Unanswered Question,” Bernstein’s lectures covered a lot of terrain, touching on poetry, linguistics, philosophy and physics.

The mineral mixture, named for a saline spring in England, is actually a combination of magnesium and sulfate.

You’ll be invited to swivel in the seats and recline them, to feel how smoothly they operate.

Never meet your idols, they say. It can put a cramp in your appreciation of their work.

What do great men like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt all have in common?

Maybe you’ve never been forced to have great ideas before…maybe there was a time when you needed great ideas but couldn’t produce them…

Do you want good luck? Of course you do. We all need that extra “something” to help us in life.

Positive Thinking’s Most Alluring Phrase Doesn’t Mean Quite What You Think

Illustrator Lili Chin drew this helpful—and adorable—guide to decoding your feline's feelings.

There are those who would have you believe that being lucky is just a matter of chance. Those people have clearly never wanted to be Jedi Masters. And, well, it turns out you can come pretty close to being one.

Learn the secrets to the innovative card trick that Jay performed on 'FOOL US' and deceived Penn and Teller!

People with good memories can often seem like they possess an inherent talent—a seemingly magical capacity for fact recollection.

You don’t have to attend expensive language courses or to convert your free trials into paid subscriptions. You can find enough websites and applications to improve your lingual skills for free.

After the response to this recent LifeHacker piece, I thought I would explain the system I use to take notes, research books and keep track of anecdotes, stories and info I come across in my work.

What happened to the signers of the Declaration?

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…

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.

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.

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

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.

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…