The Great Millennial Blood Pressure Problem

You know the person. You work with them, or you’re friends with them, or maybe you even that person. They are youngish. Fit-ish. Always tracking ...

Surge in Millennials Buying Vinyl Records

A decade ago, the music industry saw a strange trend—a revival of millennials buying old-school vinyl records. In 2021, the format’s popularity ...

President Lincoln Wasn’t Tied to ‘Opinion Polls’

Wall Street Journal writer Joseph Epstein notes that the opinion poll has been around for more than a century. They gained authority in the 1940s with ...

The House on a Rock

Italy is peppered with tiny mountain villages, and Dezzo di Scalve is one of the smallest. The picturesque River Dezzo runs right through the middle of ...

MIT Professor on Our Yearning for Immortality

American physicist and author Alan Lightman is a professor at MIT. He contemplates the day of his daughter’s wedding:

It was a perfect picture of ...

Family Reunited with Their Lost Dog After a Whole Year

Three years ago, Debra Mejeur and her husband Steven took Lola on a trip to Elk Grove, a suburb of Chicago, to visit friends. Then they received a call ...

Creep Thwarted by Bartender Assisting Woman in Peril

When bartender Max Gutierrez usually hands one of his patrons a slip of paper on a small clipboard, that usually signals the end of their interaction. ...

Man Survives Jonah Encounter with Whale

When fisherman Michael Packard dove into the ocean to check on his lobster traps, he found something bigger than one of the live crustaceans he was hunting. ...

Woman Survives Turtle Strike Through Windshield

A 71-year-old woman was hospitalized with injuries to her head after her car’s windshield was destroyed by a hard, blunt projectile while she was ...

Animal Experts Called in to Wrangle Mysterious Beast

An anonymous woman phoned the Krakow Animal Welfare Society with concerns about an unidentified, menacing object or animal in a tree near her home. When ...