There are people —most of them rich, a few of them self-aware, and many of them self-involved —that pay exorbitant sums of money to go on meditative retreats during which they are treated to the soul ...

In the new HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and his longtime buddy Bill Gates recall the moment when they each took a scrap of paper and, without consulting one ...

Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Bean is a lightweight, Cocoa-based word processor for Macs. When we highlighted NeoOffice, the Mac-like port of OpenOffice.org, a lot of readers wanted to ...

In our age of Facebook and Twitter, we know all too well how fast words can spread. When I was a kid, we played the game telephone, passing a word or phrase around the circle by whispering it into ...

If you were searching social media at the beginning of the year, you may have seen people posting about their “one word”; the word that summed up their intention for the year and will serve to help ...

If there's one thing book-lovers can't get enough of, it's, well, words. Reading them, writing them, correcting people when they mispronounce them. If you count yourself among the "I'm secretly ...

The word "fast" gets thrown around a lot in running talk...as in, how fast you run, whether or not someone is fast, if a race is considered fast, or what exactly qualifies as fast. Likewise, "slow" is ...