In Anton Chekhov’s famous play, The Three Sisters, Masha, one of the sisters, complains that knowing three languages is a needless luxury in a small, unsophisticated town. She compares it to something ...

Last week, we rounded up websites where you can take free college classes and learn all sorts of serious stuff. But maybe you could care less about biology, computational investing or how to code with ...

Sometimes I think the true marker of a modern society is the presence of tons of things that are, in essence, useless. I mean, if we have so many ultimately nonfunctional items cluttering up our lives ...

You may have looked around your house recently and thought you were drowning in stuff. You aren't alone. There are plenty of things in your home that may get one use and then sit there to collect dust ...