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. 

Can our political beliefs actually make us bad at math?

Paul Thorton, the L.A. Times’ letters editor explained the difference between opinions and factual inaccuracies in defending his decision not to print letters that challenge the certainty "that we fossil-fuel-burning humans are driving global warming."

The government shutdown brought tears to the eyes of a 5-year-old when he could no longer play kids games on his favorite website, Nasa.gov. 

By 2047, plus or minus five years, the coldest years the world experiences will actually be warmer than the hottest years in the past. 

Would a government default have the impact of Lehman10 as Daniel Gross puts it or could the breaching of the debt ceiling be a "managed catastrophe" as Senator Tom Coburn so artfully put it?

Sasha Abramsky argues that poverty today is a symptom of profound levels of inequality. 

In his Mentor Workshop Jonathon Keats looks at how to ask naïve questions, how to invert perceptions, how to combine incompatible systems, how to remix metaphors and finally how to pursue paradox.

"We were a little appalled" said lead researcher Dr. Nicole E. Ruedy after the team concluded that unethical behavior can trigger "positive affect, which we term a 'cheater’s high.'"

While a writer like Chekhov makes us contemplative and skeptical, a mainstream work of fiction does little to enhance our theory of mind skills, such as our ability to understand complex characters.