lake in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, USA

As Walter Isaacson’s major new biography of Steve Jobs goes on sale today, The Fiscal Times looks at ten compelling quotes from the book – quotes by Steve Jobs about Steve Jobs, Apple, and the start of one of the biggest business stories of our time.

The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to eastern North America. It lives in most of the eastern and central United States; eastern populations may be migratory. Resident populations are also found in Newfoundland…

Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century.

  During World War II, a Canadian bomber flying from a base in Scotland crashed in what the crew thought was the vicinity of their airfield. Spotting a pub, they entered to celebrate their survival with a quick drink but were stunned to see a group of soldiers…

ghost town

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver. We used x-ray videos…

Whether they missed the beat on major trends or chose the wrong investors, retailers from Borders to Mervyn's met their match

Cleaning up the Uffington Horse is the neigh-borly thing to do

A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, horsetails…

Truly a Hollywood blockbuster deal

A survey quizzing children about the origins of their food reveals that nearly one in five believe fish fingers come from chicken.

The Mongol invasion of Europe in the 13th century occurred from the 1220s into the 1240s. In Eastern Europe, the Mongols conquered Volga Bulgaria, Cumania, Alania, and the Kievan Rus' federation. In Central Europe, the Mongol armies launched a two-pronged…

Roman centurion and bodyguard

archaeological hoax

HE BECAME famous for his bagpiping skills in the Italian town which he helped liberate from Nazi forces during the Second World War.

The Hammer Museum, located in Haines, Alaska, U.S., is the first museum in the world dedicated to hammers. The museum was founded in 2002 and became a non-profit organization in 2004. It features over 1,400 hammers and related tools, ranging from ancient…

December 14, 1999: Apple acquires the domain name www.iphone.org, prompting years of speculation …

During the belle époque, a time of unshakeable faith in scientific and technical progress, it was presumed that there would be an inexorable rise to a great apotheosis: a brave new world. It was against this competitive backdrop that Camille Jenatzy, a Belgian…