If you’re test-driving a car at a dealership pay attention to the check engine light when you turn the key: it should temporarily flicker then go away. If it doesn’t, the dash has been tampered with to mask a potential issue. Also, if a dealership car is parked over a puddle they do not want you looking underneath it.

From Thaddeus Wolfe to Amber Cowan, these artists are taking the medium in radical new directions.

Why are there such huge gaps in your bathroom stall doors?

As a veteran blogger, I’ve been around the block a bit, and in that time I’ve seen just about every type of blogging there is. I’ve seen masters of prose, masters of spin, masters of drama, and masters of nothing at all. And while each of us has our own story to tell, and our own way to do it, there’s one consistency among all of us that no matter how hard we try, we just can’t shake - we love to stretch the truth. We can’t help ourselves!

Although they were once feared as an evil omen, solar eclipses have helped to shape human history.

The year's not even close to over, and we already have a growing list of great sci-fi reads.

Stoicism has been growing increasingly popular over the last decade, helped by a huge number of silicon valley entrepreneurs, financial leaders, authors, and other thought leaders swearing by their lessons. If you haven’t read any of the classical stoic books, you should. That advice needs no qualification: they’re excellent, endlessly applicable, and more often than not, readers come out of them fundamentally changed in how they think about the world.

Being a blogger means you have the chance to reach thousands or even millions of people from around the world. The problem is that if you want to make blogging a full-time career, there seems to be a gap of knowledge between those that are trying to make it and those that do.

From a Copenhagen scientist to a hardbitten single mother in New York, these are singular sleuths contending with problems that all women will recognise

Execution is everything. Here's how you can execute at a much higher level, each and every day.

Unfortunately, it is not that uncommon for tragedies to unfold in a courtroom, often where tensions are high and the dangerous linger. We’ve seen it throughout history with numerous judges being shot, lawyers being murdered, and people taking the law into their own hands. However, when one inflicts the harm solely on themselves to end their own misery, it leaves those who bear witness not only haunted by the memory of what they’ve seen but forever questioning one’s despair and desperation. The following is a list of 10 people who refused to allow the legal system to play out, thus determining their own fate.

When Parade asked me to compile a list of the best 75 books to celebrate the magazine’s 75th anniversary, my first answer was, “Not a chance!” I could picture the mountains of furious letters complaining about all the great works of literature I’d left off. But when I asked the staff at Parnassus Books, the Nashville store I co-own with Karen Hayes, to take it on as a group project, they were game. What we discovered in the process is how wildly we disagree about everything, except how much we love books.

Works by Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Svetlana Alexievich, Tana French and more chosen by the book review editors of the Washington Post.

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.

Studying never looked so good.

Leading scientists pick the most significant discoveries and developments of the year.

Google can do so much more than search.

Slavery. Racism. Urbanism. Disease. While 2016 may not have been a banner year for liberal democracy in the world at large, it should definitely go down as a woke time in book publishing. For dedicated bibliophiles, the low thrum of literary FOMO that bubbles up around May has by mid-December evolved into a full-fledged panic. Every week brings a new “best books of the year” list, each one littered with titles you haven’t even heard of, let alone read.

Do you get unhealthy levels of enjoyment from unwrapping decks of cards, punching out cardboard tiles, and evaluating the heft and finish of wooden cubes? We do, too—we're gamers, after all—and 2016 was a tremendous year for tabletop gaming. The tireless members of the Ars Cardboard crew spent a lot of time playing, replaying, and dissecting the year's new titles, and we're ready to tell you what we enjoyed most.

It wasn't all bad.

The causes of our terrible health care system are pretty obvious, but for some reason, nobody has figured out how to make them go away.

We need to step up the fight against drug-resistant bacteria.

Google has a long history of introducing, then forgetting about, and finally officially killing off its products. Most recently, that included Google Spaces, a service that most of us never knew existed to begin with. Let’s take a tour of some of our favorite services Google’s killed off over the years.

The most important rule: Don’t waste your readers’ time.

For those that don’t know, here in the United States men are basically taught not to cry. ‘Murica. Social norms dictate that it shows weakness and popular culture tells us it’s unmanly. There’s also something about it preventing cancer. Here’s the thing though: bawling your eye sockets out is actually a healthy thing to help us get over whatever stress we have in our lives or show we care deeply about something. [Ed: Not me, I glued my tear ducts closed.]

Don't sabotage your own nutrition efforts with shady supermarket products masquerading as health food. Here's how to avoid the worst offenders.

When it comes to horror, Stephen King is king. But what do you read when you need a break from the master? There are numerous horror authors who evoke King’s style, while unleashing a terror all their own. If you crave the chills of a Stephen King novel but are looking to branch out, we have you covered. Here are nine horror books for Stephen King fans that deliver high-quality scares.

Bloomfield Capital has been particularly active in the apartment space in recent years, funding over $24 million in multifamily loans over the last 24 months.   Market-rate multifamily bridge lending is becoming increasingly competitive across the country, as more and more sponsors and lending platforms target the asset class.  The apartment landscape has been supported by …

My friend, Carmine Gallo, has written a book called The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty. The Apple Store is the most profitable retailer in America, generating an average of $5,600 per square foot and attracting more...

Some industries tend to have more use for social media than others.

It was quite a year, lets take a look at all the best..

Blogging isn't a case of “If you post it, they will come.” Your role as a blogger doesn't end as soon as you hit Publish. In fact, that’s only the beginning.

TIME’s No. 1 Song of 2012: No, It’s Not ‘Gangnam Style’