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A young couple was browsing at Judy Maxwell Home, a gift shop on Chicagos North Side, when they noticed a middle-aged, red-haired woman perched on a stool, palpating the sternum of a life-size red Power Ranger. The couple didnt recognize her, but it was the s…

While the holidays can be a fun and joyous time for children, many factors can contribute to increased stress for children, which often manifest as temper tantrums, defiance, anxiousness, irritability, or feeling down. Holiday-related factors include changes …

With the nights and mornings pretty close together for the next few months, and the sun taking some time out to recoup, many photographers head indoors to escape the dark and the rain. Plenty of us are tempted to hang up our cameras until the Spring, with a b…

Chau Luong P erhaps the most repeated phrase in Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener’s memoir of life as a tech-industry worker, is “I did not know.” When the book opens, Wiener’s world feels like one with limited horizons. It’s 2013, and she’s a 20-something college …

Executive Summary If you’re someone who’s prone to mind-wandering, you may want to pick a job or career that provides the right amount of distractions for your natural temperament. Few career paths will provide you with more variety than entrepreneurship. Fr…

Reported in partnership with Type Investigations. In mid-October, less than a month into the House Democrats’ formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Jim Bakker, the televangelist and convictedfraudster, was in front of a studio audience at h…

The story of RCS is a long, multi-year tale filled with early unrealized promises, ounces of hope crushed by wireless carriers, the snakiest of moves by those same carriers, and an eventual power play by Google to help establish the future of text messaging o…

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, is the subject of Bad Blood, a bestselling ... book that exposes the downsides of Silicon Valley's culture. (Photo by Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Naysayers regula…

It is late November. I write this from a tiny stripped-down cabin on the edge of Shenandoah National Park which serves as my hermitage for a few nights. I came here as a getaway: to get away from my life in the city, from the social roles that orient my…

We asked you the other day if RCS had changed your life and the responses have been fun to try and recap. We asked because RCS began rolling out in mid-November, so we assumed it had finished and that you all had time to play with it some. As it…