The Case Against Homework. Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away...

Girls Soccer Coach Resigns over hilarious (insane?) email to parents "Some say soccer at this age is about fun and I completely agree. However, I believe winning is fun and losing is for losers...

"Sexting": a disturbing new teenage trend...

Dead.AtYourAge.Com is a handy website that tells you about noteworthy people who died at exactly your age (or thereabouts). Like, in my case, Dimebag Darrell...

"I understand you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a f*ckin game." After trading blows over the last couple weeks, CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer appeared opposite...

What's a Coastie? Two University of Wisconsin undergrads record and post to YouTube an ode to "Coasties," out-of-state students who live in expensive off-campus apartments, wear Spandex tights with Uggs, spend their parents' money on designer handbags...

A team of scientists from Yale University and the up-and-coming Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have managed to fabricate intricate electrical contacts to produce a transistor from a benzene molecule. This is a...

Do you like musical instruments with lots of keyboards? And lots and lots of dials? Then you may like 36 15 MOOG: Stuff with Moog and/or 60's and 70's vintage synths in it. (related Ask MeFi) Stuff like George Harrison's Electronic Sound (1969). The...

What does Santa need after a night of delivering presents in bad weather? An instrument approach to the North Pole.

The Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a theater troupe from NYC. They are putting on a new version of Romeo And Juliet at The Kitchen in Manhattan. From Gothamist: "The script is not Shakespeare's; it's derived from hours of recorded telephone...