How to read a book a day for a year.

Choose short/easy/audio books. Actually, I read a book a day and have for years — but it's an audiobook, and most of this reading is don...

The end of a Christmas caroling tradition.

The NY Post reports: The tradition began in the late 1970s when cabaret singer John Wallowitch would walk by Berlin’s [NYC] house and warbl...

"The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers."

Foreign Policy assembles the usual and unusual suspects. Obama — the "brainy 44th president" and "huge basketball fan" ...

Obama's cookie controversy.

Asked by a girl to name his favorite Girl Scout cookie, Obama says "“I’ve gotta say that I’m pretty partial to those mint..." and ...

"I’ll never buy Oreo again."

And: "Disgusted with oreos Being gay is an abmonitation in GOd’s eyes i wont be buying them anymore."

"Goggles that trick the wearer into thinking the plain snack in their hand is a chocolate cookie, or make biscuits appear larger..."

... research at the University of Tokyo. In experiments, volunteers consumed nearly 10 percent less when the biscuits they were eating appea...

"At the end of the day, you have to be bigger than politics."

It's Hillary Clinton, out there doing politics again. “I'm really old-fashioned. I feel I have made my contribution," Clinton s...

"What made the whole Girl-Scout-with-her-period thing so inspired..."

"... wasn’t just that Larry [David] has to read detailed anatomical instructions through the door (I love the barely sublimated panic i...