Every month, I record my progress on my yearly goals to hold myself accountable and occasionally seek help and advice from readers willing to offer insight, ideas, and solutions. Here…

Walking speed on the streets of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia has increased 15% since 1979. This makes me very happy. I believe in stopping to smell the roses. Admiring…

A new global survey from the Pew Research Center aimed to determine the percentage of respondents in a given country who said they had switched religions and that their current…

Many things boggle my mind when it comes to Americans who voted for and support Donald Trump, but I'm sure many Americans (though far fewer, according to the latest polling…

What I learned this week: The first human object launched into space wasn’t Sputnik 1. Sputnik 1 was the first human-made object intentionally launched into space. But the first actual…

While visiting the Museum of Moving Inages in Queens, New York last week, we spent time in an exhibit on Jim Henson, which included lots of Sesame Street and The…

While speaking to entrepreneurs in Toronto last week, I met someone who told me that to explore his strengths and weaknesses for the goal of self-improvement, he asked ChatGPT to…

The Pope, as you probably know, passed away on Monday. I was born into the Catholic religion but left the church after my first CCD class — ironically, after learning…

The rights of transgender people, and in some cases, their physical safety, have eroded over the past few years, and today, legislators across America are beginning to enact Draconian laws…

A new study examined all breakfast cereals purchased by 77,000 U.S. households over a nine-year period and tracked them against Nielsen ratings data for all ads seen in the same…