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We fear boredom — that we might be bored or, even worse, bore others. One example: For a 2014 University of Virginia psychology study, participants gave themselves electrical shocks to avoid sitting alone with their...

Anthropologists at USF have concluded a three-year investigation into bodies found at the Dozier Boys reform school in Marianna, Florida, and found evidence of almost twice the number of graves as were identified in scho...

Bound is a story about the fragility of family as expressed threw dance in a world endlessly transforming between Neoplasticism, Suprematism, Bauhus and Concretism.

Four top sports auction houses put a price tag on the ultimate Super Bowl prize.

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When you’re spending $60bn on a private jet, you can literally have virtually anything you want and Canadian private jets manufacturer Bombardier is well used to accommodating the wishes of well-heeled customers.

[Updated with Kickstarter response 11:48 am Feb. 1 2016] Ant Simulator, a game that raised money through crowdfunding, has allegedly been canceled because the company’s leaders spent the money on liquor, restaurants, a...

Flickr/Morgan People who score highly in the Dark Triad personality traits – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – are vain, selfish, callous and manipulative. They're not the kind of people you want to spen...

New research published today in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many of us have suspected for some time: If you smoke a lot of weed -- like a lot of it -- it can potentially do permanent damage to your s...

screengrab via Vimeo Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel announced on Twitter this week his plan to start his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this year. The 24-year-old, 305...

Tax audits are miserable, whether in person or by correspondence. Lower IRS audit rates are emboldening some taxpayers, so be careful.

Amanda Mesler, Microsoft’s general manager for central and eastern Europe, has been travelling the globe for several decades, venturing to some parts of the world where female business executives were a rare sight.

Amazon’s been more than a bookstore for quite awhile, but not it appears as if it’s turning its eyes (or ears) towards the now-popular streaming music industry.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday that it has wrapped up its probe of Chipotle’s E. coli outbreaks, declaring them to be over with no new illnesses reported to the agency since December. T...

A cargo ship has been drifting in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Northern France for a week. The crew has been evacuated, but the French Navy hasn't been able to safely bring the vessel to port. Story and editing by...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet (GOOG), is now the most valuable company in the universe, with a market cap of about $570 billion in after-hours trading after reporting a stronger than expected Q4 FY2015 earnings rep...

Today marks Google’s first earnings report as Alphabet (GOOG), revealing $21.33 billion in revenue and $8.67 earnings per share for the fourth 2015 quarter. Google, now a subsidiary of Alphabet, drove about 99 percent ...

For the first time, Google owner Alphabet (GOOG) has shared the numbers behind its various moonshots and side businesses. As part of the company’s latest quarterly earnings announcement, Alphabet revealed today that it...

The Central Board of Direct Taxes guidelines will help further streamline the process of tax refunds

Sebi keeps the share sale in abeyance due to past violation by RBL Bank

If they let me do my thing and the kids come at me with everything they’ve got, the next big rap star will be right here - Jermaine Dupri  The Rap Game, Lifetime’s new hip-hop reality series, is one of the network�...

Cincinnati Financial Corporation (CINF) declared a 48-cents-per-share regular quarterly cash dividend, increasing from the previous 46-cents-per-share dividend paid on January 15, 2016. The dividend is payable April 15, ...