THE MAGAZINE

Navid Khonsari thinks video games can do more than entertain. “What I’m creating," he said, "is the template for how future generations are going to be engaging with history.”

With her "biocouture" fashion line, Suzanne Lee is growing the clothes of tomorrow in a lab.

All week long, Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs sit side by side at a long workbench facing their Santa Monica backyard, writing.

Back in preschool, there were only a handful of sensible options for the career-minded 4-year-old. Had we heard about "sin-eating," we would have eaten more paste and focused a little less on our permanent records.

Exercising on a treadmill often feels like torture, and that’s not exactly a coincidence.

Our conversation with the indie rocker turned Portlandia star, who's working on a new album and really good at ping-pong.

'Twin Peaks' proved to fans, critics, and industry gatekeepers alike that television would no longer live in the shadow of film.

More than a century ago, Christian fundamentalists invented cereal to promote a healthy lifestyle free of sin. Little did they know, their creation would eventually be used to promote everything from radio and cartoons to Mr. T and tooth decay.

Watterson spoke to Mental Floss in December 2013. Here's what he had to say about stuffed Hobbes toys, creative integrity, and animating his characters.

If you’ve been rolling your eyes at people who say “duck tape” adhesive, prepare some apologies.

Polite society told Alice Huyler Ramsey that women shouldn’t drive. So she motored across the country to prove them wrong.

While the masses coo at Kate’s dresses and wink at Harry’s antics, there’s a world of colorful royalty that never makes the tabloids. From a crafty prince who scalps movie tickets for pocket money to a TV-obsessed royal who believes Star Trek can jump-sta