POSTED // Oct 28,2011 - You could preside over your very own Joy Luck Club in the coming days. According to my reading of the astrological omens

POSTED // Oct 21,2011 - Meraki is a Greek word that refers to the bliss you feel when you’re engaged in a task that’s important to you and that you’re doing really well.

POSTED // Oct 14,2011 - Chris Richards wrote a story in the Washington Post in which he complained about the surplus of unimaginative band names.

POSTED // Oct 7,2011 - The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for over six years

POSTED // Sep 30,2011 - “When I was born,” said comedian Gracie Allen, “I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.”...

POSTED // Sep 23,2011 - “Our job is to become more and more of what we are,” says poet Marvin Bell. “The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.”

POSTED // Sep 16,2011 - “Everything is unique,” said the 19th-century authors known as the Goncourt brothers, who wrote all their books together. “Nothing happens more than once in a lifetime.

POSTED // Sep 9,2011 - Wheel of Fortune is a TV game show in which players vie to guess a mystery phrase that is revealed letter by letter.

POSTED // Sep 2,2011 - Avant-garde author Gertrude Stein was renowned for her enigmatic word play and cryptic intuitions, which brought great pleasure to her longtime companion Alice B. Toklas.

POSTED // Aug 26,2011 - In August 2009, 120 scientists and their helpers staged a BioBlitz in Yellowstone National Park. Their goal was to find as many new species as they could in one day.