The Tocqueville paradox nicely captures the idea of concept creep and explains how people today ... just turning eighteen shakes their head at "kids these days." People believe that others are ...

New communications technology like social media has opened a hellhole of awful things. But we just gave our kid an iPhone.

People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

I’m definitely a “late adapter” and prefer to have my friends explain new apps and things ... the woman in the Greek myth, not the app ‒ has cracked open her box and that his access ...

Over the past few years, millions of educators have embraced the science of reading, in many cases radically transforming how the youngest students learn how to read. But a new book argues that the ...

There's more than just Greek and Roman mythology, too. The fantastic (in every sense of the word) books on this list draw from Indian, Norse, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean myths. For more great ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

The best audiobooks for family road trips Road trips are the ultimate in family fun, with the journey just as exciting as the destination. You’ve got the snacks! The stops along the way! The bonding ...

By far the most important—and possibly most debated—of those traces are the texts of the New Testament, especially the first four books ... by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of ...

Recently, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) declassified a book titled “The Adam and Eve Story” about ... Thomas contends that older societies recognized these cataclysms and recorded them in ...

The numbers are staggering. Multiple sources have cited that only 1 in 10,000 people over 40 become millionaires. Even rarer?

The Tower of Babel has a surprising parallel in Greek mythology—Otus and Ephialtes’ daring attempt to reach Olympus.