“Words: So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne ...

For some 50 years or so, generations of college students participated in psychological testing. It was easy money for goofy tasks: sort silverware, look at images with your left eye, then your right.

Ann Bailey had a whole to-do list planned for the rest of the summer. But a serious health scare while visiting her daughter reminded her of how little we control our lives and what really matters.

How well do you do watching the channels on TV that show sick and starving children in other countries? I don’t do so well. I find myself taking advantage of the fact that I have the remote control at ...

The attachments we learned from our mother and father, or our first primary caregivers, from birth through our mid-grade school age, is our attachment period; it is what molds us into who we become in ...

Someone asked me about laws relating to cemeteries. It turns out that there are six categories of cemeteries in New York totaling over 5,700: Not-for-profit corporations, religious, municipal, family, ...

He had suffered a lot of theft from his shop. He responded by locking up some of his retro clothing items to stop people walking out with them. He had to put up signs telling people what to do if they ...

Pedro Martinez, the new commissioner of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, comes to the commonwealth with an impressive record of change in Chicago and an opportunity to tackle ...

Sharks, rays, and chimaeras are collectively known as cartilaginous fish, because instead of bones, they have cartilage material like humans have in our noses and ears. That certainly seems to work ...

Chinch bugs, small insects with black triangular wing patches, can quickly damage lawns, especially St. Augustine grass. Homeowners can confirm chinch bug infestations using the flotation method or by ...

Changes to NCAA Division-II have felt long overdue for a while with the dominance of the GLIAC, MIAA and GAC in Super Region 3, and the Super Region 3 bracket providing more entertaining matchups than ...

Many cities and towns throughout the United States are dealing with the challenge of homelessness. Aiken County and the city of Aiken are no exception. Most homeless service organizations in our area ...