By Geoffrey James  writing for Inc.  Drinking coffee in moderation is good for your health but drinking a LOT of coffee is even better. The National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the Feinberg School of medicine at Northwestern University recently analyzed coffee-drinking data from the UK Biobank, a long-term study of half a million people in the U.K. […]

DEIRDRE CLEMENTE writing for The Atlantic Americans began the 20th century in bustles and bowler hats and ended it in velour sweatsuits and flannel shirts—the most radical shift in dress standards in human history. At the center of this sartorial revolution was business casual, a genre of dress that broke the last bastion of formality—office […]

From peopleproductivitysuccess.com We often use the phrase “Our Employees Are Our Greatest Asset,” but what do we mean when we make this statement?   I must admit, I don’t think I have ever heard a company actually define what they mean by employees being their greatest asset, and if it’s not defined, then chances are employees aren’t…. So, in researching my […]

By Cate Lineberry Smithsonian.com  Darkness still blanketed the city of Charleston in the early hours of May 13, 1862, as a light breeze carried the briny scent of marshes across its quiet harbor. Only the occasional ringing of a ship’s bell competed with the sounds of waves lapping against the wooden wharf where a Confederate sidewheel […]

By Richard Quinn  writing for MarketWatch We’re faced with a host of thorny retirement issues: Keep Social Security solvent. Make Medicare affordable. Many Americans aren’t saving enough. They want to retire earlier than they can reasonably afford. They’re effectively financially illiterate. But in the end, you don’t need to worry about all Americans. Instead, what you […]

By Gabriella Borter  Doughnut lovers took to social media on Tuesday to decry a decision by Dunkin’ Donuts to drop its signature product from its name, an effort by the brand now known simply as Dunkin’ to highlight a wider array of menu items and appeal to a younger generation. The U.S. chain will still sell […]

By Christobel Hastings                writing for Broadly   While most Japanese women were subject to rigid social expectations of domesticity, onna-bugeisha women warriors who were known to be to be every bit as strong, capable, and courageous as their male counterparts It was the autumn of 1868, and for the […]

Laura Ma, for CNN  As the new series of “Cosmos” (only available to Fox viewers in the United States) seeks to unveil the wonders of the universe, you might be inspired to seek out these astronomical spectacles for yourself. Thankfully, there’s a ready-made list of places that offer the best chances to spot meteors, see […]

LINDA POON writing for CityLab One 1950s-themed town will have a city hall, a movie theater, and a park to help bring back memories for dementia patients. There’s going to be a new town square in Chula Vista, a suburb near San Diego County, California. But while most cities try to update their town squares to […]

From segwayevents.co.uk   Dean Kamen is an American ‘serial inventor’ and entrepreneur and is probably best known for being the man who invented the Segway (thanks Dean!). The first segway, code-named ‘Ginger’, was launched in December 2001 in New York with the unveiling broadcast live across the US on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’.   Dean […]