What do we know about the biblical character Goliath? "He was tall and maybe he didn't see so well; even WebMD wouldn't be so bold as to diagnose with no more than that."

If creativity and optimism are childish fancies, bring it on. The adult world needs more of that. 

The story of candy is really a story of American industrialization, sensuality, the beginnings of artificial food, and the seduction and independence of children, as they first use candy to control their own pleasure. 

A plot of land in a cemetery is both a waste of space and money. It is also rather morbid - the stuff of Halloween displays - not to mention uncreative. 

There are many ways to transmit big ideas - through videos, through the written word, or as the title of this blog attests, through pictures that are worth more than 1,000 words.

Our primal fear can make modern humans oversensitive, and cause us to react to dangers that don't exist and push us to make illogical and irrational decisions. 

When one hears the word "oligarch," one might think of the Russian billionaires who control the production of petroleum, natural gas and metal, and as a result, wield a disproportionate amount of power in Putin's Russia.

Baseball fans are "the most digitally-wired on the planet." And that is paying off very well for Major League Baseball.  

An expert is someone whose purpose in life is to tell you why something won't work. So goes the old adage, but the entrepreneur and philanthropist Naveen Jain isn't buying it.

Nobody knows for sure what is inside two floating barges, owing to some extraordinary secrecy measures that have been taken. 

Fifty-two percent of Americans believe the death penalty is applied fairly in the United States -- a smaller figure than the 60% who favor the death penalty.

Oil is not properly priced from anyone's standpoint. Coal is not an acceptable answer. Where does that leave us?

The video below, released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mars Express, is a stunning flyover of the planet, showcasing grabens, dendritic valleys, lava flows and the highest known mountain in the Solar System. 

How long must creative people wait for the Web’s new wealth to find a path to their doors?

Brain decoding is the technique by which neuroscientists are able to decipher what a person is experiencing during a dream. 

Most traffic is the result of extremely subtle changes in the flow of traffic, caused, for instance, be drivers speeding up or slowing down ever so slightly. This has a ripple effect.

At the end of next month, Comet ISON is expected to be at its brightest, when it is nearest to the Sun. Still, no one knows exactly what it will look like. 

Having been raised with traditional views of womanhood, Fatimah Asghar says "I was invisible for most of my life." That is no longer the case for the award-winning poet and performer. 

There is evolutionary significance to the petty acts of aggression that were famously portrayed by Lindsay Lohan and other young women in the 2004 film Mean Girls. 

The AI company Vicarious has created an algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA "with greater than 90% accuracy."