BY DEVIN GANNON  writing for 6sqft.com For over 100 years, water towers have been a seamless part of New York City’s skyline. So seamless, in fact, they often go unnoticed, usually overshadowed by their glassy supertall neighbors. While these wooden relics look like a thing of the past, the same type of water pumping structure continues […]

By: John Rampton writing for Entrepreneur.com For as long as there have been businesses in operation, leaders have been looking for ways to boost productivity in the workplace. In 1856, the British government conducted a report on office space layouts. The report said, “For the intellectual work, separate rooms are necessary so that a person who works with […]

By ITU News On World Environment Day, consider these facts on plastic pollution from theUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Each year, around 13 million tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans. That’s the equivalent of a full garbage truck emptying into the ocean every minute. In the last decade, the world produced more plastic than in […]

Football (or soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long history. Football in its current form arose in England in the middle of the 19th Century. But alternative versions of the game existed much earlier and are a part of the football history. Early history and the precursors […]

By New England Historical Society The July 1911 heat wave killed thousands of New Englanders and sent many over the brink of madness. During 11 hellish days, horses dropped in the street. Babies didn’t wake up from their naps. Boats in Providence Harbor oozed pitch and began to take on water. Tar in the streets […]

By Rebecca Lake  CreditCards.com Start early and benefit from summer deals and rewards card bonuses When the dog days of summer set in, the holiday season may be the last thing on your mind. But it’s not too early to begin making your holiday shopping list and checking it twice. In 2017, 12 percent of shoppers got […]

By: Ledyard King, USA TODAY    HARRISONBURG, Va. – Sheila Kloefkorn is a liberal, gay marketing executive in crimson-red Arizona who had a falling out with her family over the 2016 election. Greg Steinbrecher is a conservative aspiring actor from navy-blue California who has been labeled a “Nazi” by his friends for his right-of-center views. For both, finding a […]

By: Sue Shellenbarger Hilary Blair has acted professionally and served as chief executive of her own communications-coaching company for the past seven years. She oversees a staff of 13 and counts Staples and Boeing among her clients. She says her success comes despite the first impression she makes on some people, not because of it. […]

by Kevin Sheridan   Upon entering your workplace, have you ever been greeted by a foul and pungent smell? Most of us have experienced this at least one time over the course of our careers. Sometimes coworkers don’t shower after a long exercise routine, or they simply don’t shower often, transforming their daily physical accumulation into a […]

Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY   SAN FRANCISCO – Love your electronic devices all you want, but please, please, please don’t throw them in the trash when you’re done with them. That’s a plea from makers of the lithium-ion batteries that typically power our phones, laptops and even power tools. Thrown into the trash or even the […]