Mentalist Oz Pearlman can guess ATM pins and more. He's not ready to give all his tricks away, but he explained how some of ...

Research has shown that people put in extra effort on their goals after meaningful time markers like the start of a new year.

Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...

Some convicts in Australia escaped and found shelter, solidarity, and even family among the Indigenous groups they'd been ...

Jones later called on people who "don't know the difference between figuratively and literally" to "get a quality public education." ...

The word “excoriate” means to censure or criticize severely. It is a verb, and the term can also mean to damage or remove ...

I interviewed the artists while we were still holding our breaths for the return of the 20 living hostages. Art can evoke a ...

What follows is a new column from Donovan Scribes, a writer, producer, former VP of the Portland chapter of the NAACP, and the editor of the Mercury's print issue BlackOut: a 5 Year Retrospective of ...

Stacy Davis Gates unanimously won election Saturday to be the next president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers.

On January 18, 1927, the Frankfurter Zeitung daily newspaper featured one of the celebrated feuilletons Joseph Roth had ...

See the floral-inspired abstractions of British artist Flora Yukhnovich at the Frick Collection, responding to Boucher's 'The ...