ANAHEIM — Ray Montgomery is old enough to remember when striking out was a bad thing. “It was literally like you were stoned and scorned,” said the Angels’ interim manager, who played in the majors ...
Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have uncovered rare stars so fast they can escape the galaxy’s gravity altogether.
Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to ...
We’d all like to be innovative, but few people have creativity switches they can turn on at will. (I definitely don’t.) We’re a lot better at convergent thinking, using knowledge and experience to ...
On my NPR-San Francisco show, listeners would call in with a problem and, in a few minutes, I had to come up with an approach that we both felt good about. Over the years, I refined the approach and ...
UTICA, NY (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) — The City of Utica — and the entire Mohawk Valley — is facing a growing problem: the number of homeless in the area has nearly quadrupled since 2020, according to a survey ...