Country Singer Merle Haggard's Restless Soul

Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more than a dozen made it to ...

Athletes Blame Woes on Defective Soccer Balls

During the 2002 Soccer World Cup, Adidas introduced their Fevernova soccer ball, which featured a new design that was supposed to make the ball follow ...

Jim Carrey's Search for Fulfillment

What will enough ever be "enough"?

Comedian Jim Carrey presented a similar struggle at the 2016 Golden Globes ceremony. Before announcing the ...

Unrealistic Expectations in Marital Intimacy

Marriage therapist Lori Gottlieb claims that modern marriages are often fraught with incredibly high expectations, especially around sexual satisfaction. ...

Two Extremes of What We Really Need

What do human beings really need? At one tragic extreme, at least 700 million people do not have access to clean water. Every year, half a million children ...

Psychiatrists Identify 'The Paris Effect'

Psychiatrists call it "The Paris Effect." It simply means the disappointment that many first-time visitors to Paris experience after hyped up ...

Billionaire Tweets About His Emptiness

In 2014, software giant Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Mojang AB, the Swedish company that created the worldwide gaming sensation Minecraft. The ...

Envy Leads to Man's Downfall

Through a Rotary Club sponsored program, Clayton Lush had built schools at villages in the Solomon Islands. He also hosted a Christmas carols show for ...

Pet Rock Inventor Regrets Invention

In the mid-'70s, an unknown editor named Gary Dahl was talking with his friends, who were complaining about all the work involved in caring for pets—feeding ...

We Can't Have 'Ordinary' Experiences Anymore

Joe Queenan, writer for the New York Times and GQ, criticizes what he calls our culture's "inability to accept the ordinary." Queenan says ...