Marchetti’s Constant is the idea that, throughout human history—from cave dwellers to ancient Greeks to modern-day New Yorkers—people tend to commute for about an hour a day: 30 minutes out,…

I hate the snapping of approval that has become so popular these days. I was telling a story on stage last week when a handful of people in the front…

Every summer and during the Christmas holiday, Howard Marks, the co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, writes a memo for all to see about his investment strategies for the upcoming season.…

I love this story: My friend owns a business that requires large, expensive machines to cut and shape metal. One of the machines he recently bought has been defective. The…

The Guardian reported on words most hated by a selection of English poets. These included: redacted pulchritude appall Pulchritude, by the way, means "physical beauty or attractiveness." It's one of…

Cup stacking, also known as sport stacking, has become a regular activity in many physical education classes around the United States. More than 5,000 American schools now include stacking in…

A survey asked Americans what time period they would want to live in and found that: 40 percent said they would prefer to live in the present, 45 percent would…

Over the last week, a few people online have been less than kind to me. I wrote a list of suggestions for changes in the NFL, which actually spurred a…

While working conditions in medieval England were brutal for peasants, in some places the workers got better sick, annual, and bereavement leave than plenty of workers get today. Research from…