The world is a very malleable place. When I read biographies, early lives leap out the most. Leonardo da Vinci was a studio apprentice to Verrocchio at 14. Walt Disney took on a number of jobs, chiefly delivering papers, from 11 years old. Vladimir Nabokov…

Individual merchants likely enforced the standard, from Great Britain to Babylon

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For the past 18 generations, one family has preserved a 400-year-old recipe showing how sushi once tasted, and it doesn't use raw seafood, but fish aged for three years.

'Strength training for breathing muscles' holds promise for host of health benefits. Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as “strength training for your breathing muscles” lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of vascular…

Take a virtual trip to alien worlds, and maybe even plaster your living room with new, futuristic space tourism posters.