The scene illustrates as well as anything the problem of trying to write a history of that endlessly fascinating but ...

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Roberts, who came up with the idea for the frozen burrito not long after graduating from high school, went on to do quite ...

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Thomas Alva Edison, a prolific inventor, shaped modern life with inventions like the electric bulb. His success stemmed from ...

By Aditya Mukherjee Wouldn’t we all do better by accepting that no human being will ever understand another?” This sentence from Graham Greene’s A Burnt-Out Case confronts one of the most enduring ...

The contemporary tarot deck may have been a medieval Jewish invention to preserve Jewish knowledge in the face of overwhelming oppression.

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We now have a market where capital flow is automated, valuation discipline is eroded, and active managers are fading.

Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, filed for the patent in 1966 and received approval three years later.

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...