Mental Health Month What to do with the seriously mentally ill?
In August 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who had come to the United States to escape the war, was stabbed to death on a Charlotte,…
Category: General Interest
What will happen to your collection?
You’ve spent years — maybe decades — building a collection you love. You know why that particular piece of Depression glass is rare, why one vesta case…
Collectors drawn to the quest, history of objects
Most people have heard of stamp or coin collecting, but the world of collectibles runs far deeper and stranger than that. Victorian figural napkin rings,…
One object has traveled through time and space
During the last 1,000 years or so, one small item has traveled through time and space, having been curiously inspected, lost, then found again. It isn’t…
We don’t know everything about DNA
In one of the strangest scientific cases on record, a Washington State woman’s DNA tests repeatedly showed she was not the mother of her children, even…
The wild bankruptcy case of Miles Guo
Miles Guo — or Guo Wengui or Ho Wan Kwok, depending on who you ask — was a true business legend who climbed his way up from middle school dropout and…
Robert Hutchings Goddard: Ushering in the Space Age
In 1899, one boy’s tree-top reverie ignited the space age. Robert Hutchings Goddard was 17 when he climbed a cherry tree in his family’s backyard to prune…
Robert H. Goddard The Times regretted the error
One hundred years ago, in March 1926, a scientist named Robert Goddard ushered in a space age by launching a small liquid-fueled rocket on his aunt’s…
Scientists turn lead into gold (just for a second)
Medieval alchemists can finally claim a victory after scientists at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to turn lead into gold. But there’s a…
AI education to personalize school system
In December 2025, xAI announced a landmark partnership with the Government of El Salvador, led by President Nayib Bukele, to launch the world’s first…