Actual Traffic Jam on Everest Those who climb it nowadays have more luck than brains . . . In the evenings they watched ...

“In Hamburg in 1834, a handsome young army officer named Baron von Trautmansdorf challenged a fellow officer, Baron von Ropp, to ...

 The following essay is about William James Sidis, whom Robert Persig ( Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ) discusses in his novel, ...

E xistence is a predicate without a basis. The self does not see.  Instead, there is a sense of self.  That is the seen.  It is seen so it c...

Decapitated Heads Remaining Conscious? Q.  Would a guillotined person die instantly or would the severed head live long enough to feel itsel...

Steven Levy said that he had almost a religious experience when he found it in Wichita, Kansas. A journalist for a magazine, New Jersey Mont...

 This art-deco image of a pilot, scarf flying over a vintage biplane, evokes for me an entire era, and one man helps capture that era.  A wh...

A few years back I read about George, a 140 year-old lobster that did not wind up on somebody's dinner plate. Instead, he was r...

Descended from the legendary Dukes of Alba, daughter in a wealthy Cuban family, Mercedes de Acosta was born in 1893 in New York, ...

Born to immense wealth, Pancho had an arranged marriage to a minister. Newspapers proclaimed the marriage of a socialite to a...