This article discusses the overproduction of corn and how it is contributing to obesity in our population. Corn, a starchy substance, is in everything we eat and drink. It explains the effect and what needs to be done to reduce it.

Original article text from Time Magazine, January 3, 1964, in which Martin Luther King, Jr. was featured as "Man of the Year."

Technology can bring a lot of convenience into our lives. But it can also make us rely a little too much on our phones, tablets, laptops, and smart watches. Spelling and grammar is something that seems to suffer due to our over-reliance...

This magazine article explains how posters were used years ago for news and how they are used today for advertising.

Read this article to learn about Heifer International and other organizations who donate farm animals like cows, buffalo, goats, and sheep to poor people to improve their lives. It talks about 2nd graders raising money to help fund these...

According to this very interesting article, it seems that the United States was just as culpable as Great Britain when it came to impressing sailors to serve on their ships. Read about the story of Charles Davis, a British citizen, who...

A article on the Hell-Fire club, its history, what they did, and the people involved with it, including possibly Benjamin Franklin. Published in BEYOND magazine in 2008.

Time Magazine offers a detailed account of Alexander Fleming's work in the field of bacteriology with penicillin. View a timeline of Fleming's most noted accomplishments and answer the "pop" quiz question to see if you really the...

This article, published by Scientific American (September 2002), re-publishes a short paper by Albert Einstein which "explains" relativity to the layman the pretty girl/hot stove abstract.

A magnet quench, explained here, is a routine event that happens within a particle accelerator that can require the accelerator to be shut down for a period of repair, losing valuable research time. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an...

Alex Hawes's article, "On Waterdogs, Mudpuppies, and the Occasional Hellbender" looks at the range of creatures within the classification of Amphibian. He does not spend time discussing frogs or toads in depth, but focuses on the rest of...

An account about Caral, Peru that suggests there was a civilization present in Peru much earlier than was previously thought. The article describes Caral as an ancient city that was flourishing at the same time the Great Pyramids were...

Text of 1898 article in New York Times Magazine by Charles de Kay in which he expresses his thoughts on the design for new Ellis Island buildings. The new buildings were to replace those destroyed in a fire.

This site from The Body provides an article summarizing recent research that traces the origins of the HIV virus possible back to the 1940s in Africa. Original resource from 1998 Times Magazine.