I don’t know about your town, but my town has a great little bookstore that we did not think would survive the arrival of the big box stores. But it has and there continues to be a real culture surrounding this particular little gem in the downtown core. There’s nowhere better to while away some …

Out of work music teachers are a dime a dozen these days as schools cut the “inessential” subject of music, but are we actually leaving out the one class that sparks the brain like no other?

It’s hard to find a person who likes no music at all, though tastes differ drastically, yet it’s the people playing that music who are getting the real buzz according to this animated TED-Ed talk from Anita Collins.

In the ancient times before the internet, access to good photos was only possible through access of a good photographer. Now, fantastic images are just a click away.

Finally slogged through Victor Hugo’s Les Mis and wondering what your next wordy conquest should be?
This infographic from Cartridge Discount gives you the lowdown on word trivia of the classics, from the most verbose of novels to the briefest of Shakespeare’s work.

Maybe you pen your weighty tomes kicked back in a special chair or swear by the use of an old-fashioned typewriter.

Every writer has their preferred way of working and now you can take a few notes from the masters thanks to the tumblr Writers at Work, compiled by E.J. Pfauth.

There’s no limit to what you could spend on fancy photography equipment, but if your coffers aren’t bottomless, the Cooperative of Photography has seven DIY tricks using everyday household items that can produce some great effects.

The oceans of the world haven’t gotten any calmer just because we’re shipping millions of cargo containers across them each year, so it’s inevitable a few thousand annually end up at the bottom of the sea.

What happens then, though?

Being corrected on one’s grammar is humbling enough without realizing too late the mistake has become a permanent part of your body.

Pictured above is a eurypterus, a smaller extinct eurypterid related to the giant pterygotid. A modern-day eye exam calls into question what scientists have long assumed about the extinct giant pterygotid eurypterid, the largest arthropod that ever lived. Pterygotids, which could grow more than two meters (6.5 feet) long, roamed shoreline basins for 35 million …

Get ready for a few surprises, sports fans.

Everybody’s childhood is a little different. Some people play with action figures, some people join a little league team, and some people save their brother from drowning in a swamp in Belize.

No one wants to be known as the weight around an organization’s neck, but it isn’t always easy to tell if you’ve become the problem.

If any of these phrases spelled out by Inc.’s John Brandon sound familiar, though, that could be the case.