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I was on break from college, and proud to tell dad about my new major. "General Studies in the Humanities" sounded cool to me, but he was less impressed.
That tweet came from the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis S. Collins.
Americans of different ages don't agree about government surveillance of their telephone and online communications, two new polls show.
It's meant to be one of The Internship' s signature comedy bits. Failed watch salesman and Google summer intern Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) is trying to come up with a brand new app - if his team, which includes his buddy Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) can create the coolest one, they'll be a step…
I read the new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project ( Smartphone Ownership 2013) on my iPhone, walking down the street and trying not to get run over or crash into anything. At least I wasn't driving ...
He's taken on the Civil War, baseball and jazz. Now, spurred by a personal tragedy, America's foremost documentarian is tackling cancer. According to the Associated Press, Ken Burns will collaborate with Siddhartha Mukherjee to bring the author's book The Emperor of All Maladies to PBS in spring…
Meet the "un-politician."
If you're like my wife, you may resist the notion of taking advantage of a senior discount. We're at a tender age, and she's not keen for people to think she's older than she really is.
Yes, there's a Guinness World Record for nearly everything, from " longest eyeball pop" (don't try this) to " biggest bagel" (don't eat this). But our previous favorite, " oldest wing walker" (92-year-old Thomas Lackey in 2012) has just been replaced: the Regency Jewish Heritage Nursing and…
Min Bahadur Sherchan, 81, turned back from the summit of Mount Everest on May 28 because of bad weather, failing in his attempt to become the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain. The Associated Press reports that Sherchan held the record from 2008, when he scaled the peak at the age…