Have you seen my keys? Oh, no, not again. It seems like you lose your keys every day. Don't get angry just helped me find them. Where did you put them? If I knew that they wouldn't be lost, would they? Well, I don't know where you put them…

deep in the tunnels of the London Underground, as in many subway systems around the world, it's so hot it feels like hell. And yet in a basement only a few meters away, a boiler is firing to heat water for someone's shower. rather than ste…

off the coast of Western Australia, three big beliefs floating beneath the ocean surface look like giant jellyfish tethered to the sea floor. The steel machines 36 feet wide are buffeted by the powerful waves of the Indian Ocean. By harnes…

what do Sherlock Holmes and Albert Einstein have in common? Both were extraordinary thinkers. One a fictional genius, the other a real genius, curious, original and brilliant, and both were amateur violinists. The link between these aspect…

every day a small miracle occurs without anyone paying the slightest attention. At breakfast, lunch and supper 10s of millions of French people decide to gather around a table at the same time in order to share a meal, as if some invisible…

is it an accident that no white runner has managed to break the 10 second barrier in approved wind conditions, there is definitely a psychological barrier. The huge bias in the figures has fueled a debate as to whether black West Africans …

Before, the brain is the most complicated organ in the known universe, it is estimated that the brain has 100 billion nerve cells and more connections in it than there are stars in the universe. Even though the brain consists of only about…

we know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than ability, children develop a stronger work ethic and become more motivated. Yet success is not…

messy or tidy, which is better. Historically, the evidence has favored the tidy camp. Cleanliness, as the proverb says, is next to godliness. The anthropologist Mary Douglas noted almost 50 years ago, a connection between clean open spaces…

I remember my first boss at J. Walter Thompson and advertising agency gave me a big piece of advice with my first race. He said, Congratulations, Mike, what I have to warn you, the richer you get, the more you worry about being poor. He sp…