No matter how many times I listen to this, it makes me smile. It's like an audio illusion; sometimes you hear John Lennon's "Imagine," and sometimes you hear Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run." …
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What killed William Harrison?
Pneumonia is the conventional wisdom. Stubborn ninth US president William Henry Harrison gave a long inaugural address in freezing weather, got sick, and died a month later. What we do know, …
100 milliseconds
Clearly, there's something to the importance of first impressions. When forming an impression of you, what you say accounts for only seven percent of what people come away with. And fair or not, …
Bread in the air
The North End of Boston is a charming, anachronistic place. There, in the heart of a very modern, high-tech city is an enclave of old-style Boston filled with coffee shops and newsstands and …