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How do you lift a poem out of history and "into your own history"?
The Spanish word berrinches means "tantrum," but it also refers to "spoiled little rich kids, blind to their privilege and the effects of their misbehavior."
That respect that people had for each other's office, Chris Matthews says, is completely missing today. It doesn't have to be that way. 
Why are people sometimes more emboldened in their beliefs after being exposed to corrective information?
Frances Townsend, a former Homeland Security Advisor to United States under George W. Bush, brought rosary beads to Saudi Arabia, not realizing that she was committing a crime punishable by death. 
Greg Lemond is the first (and only) American to have won the Tour de France, a feat he accomplished three times, and accomplished cleanly. 
Why are humans so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.
The image above shows the convergence of an anti-GMO protest outside Central Park and the overflow of superheroes and superhero lookalikes in New York City. 
Leadership is a team sport. If you want to build anything of significance, you need to engage others.
Jeff Grant tells the powerful story of his incarceration in Federal prison for a white-collar crime.
Americans spend half the amount of time cooking than we did in the 1960s, and we have also defined "cooking" down to activities such as getting a pizza out of a box.
The American economy is not recovering because we’re still in the hangover of 30 years of debt buildup. 
Why is the Bible so obsessed with hygiene?
On March 16, 2880, 1950 DA will come very close to Earth - so close, in fact, that a collision cannot be ruled out. 
Disgust with Washington has damaged both the Republican and Democratic parties and pushed support for a viable third party to an all-time high, according to a new Gallup poll.
At the time of his arrest in 1995, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted cyber criminal in the United States. The arrest marked the end of an intense two and a half year electronic manhunt, a game of cat and mouse that Mitnick likens to a video game. 
M-Blocks are small robotic cubes that have no exterior moving parts. But they are able to propel themselves, climb on top of each other and form all kinds of shapes. 
Bill Nye is hosting "Why With Nye," an eight-part YouTube series focusing on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter.
Women whose avatars are dressed provocatively come to think of themselves more as objects than as people.
To understand why the global recovery remains sluggish, and while social unrest abounds in many countries, look no further than the workplace.