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Paying bills is a source of acute stress.

How much do you really know about our biological and physiological responses to *waves hands around* all this? Grab a stress ball and find out.

Jennifer Billock












iPods may be gone, but the Apple logo lives on.

Apple's iconic logo is rumored to have been inspired by Eve's bite into the apple of knowledge, Newton's discovery of gravity, and Alan Turing's untimely end. Are any of these stories true?

Stacy Conradt




You'll never look at time the same way again.

From prehistoric animals that lived much closer to us temporally than you might realize to the guillotine lasting way beyond the French Revolution, these facts are to mess with your perception of time.

Ellen Gutoskey