Bill Gates shares his list of favorite fanatics from 2016, including Jimmy Carter, Nanda Nilekani, Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, Nathan Bowling and Ken Caldeira.

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

Choosing a mouse is a very personal decision. What may suit one person won’t necessarily suit another. There are a range of factors to consider from the various features to comfort and style. This isn’t made any easier thanks to the huge market that currently exists for gaming mice. While gaming mice can be subjective topic, one thing is generally understood to be true among gamers: prediction and acceleration are bad news for competitive play, and DPI numbers are far more emphasized by the big name manufacturers than they need to be.

When your bank account makes the decisions, you’ve got to be a bit more careful (and smarter) about your travel decisions. That’s why I did some research on the cheapest countries to travel to – here are my top 10 countries to visit when traveling on a budget.

These 8 countries that produce the most acid rain in the world should really think about the environment they will leave for the generations to come. Acid rains are very dangerous and they have long-term consequences on humans and wildlife. It is thought that the acid rain dates back to the end of 19th century. Although it is commonly known as “acid rain”, this title refers to fog, snow, sleet and rain that contain acid in higher amounts than normal.

We’ve discussed kitchen tools everyone should have, and tools everyone on a budget should have, but if you’re willing to put a little money into your home cooking, here are some solid kitchen tools that may cost a little more than usual, but will pay you back in flavor, time saved, or just plain quality of life.

Every country has a dark past; we know and accept that. History was just an awful place to be. But you can define "past" in a lot of ways -- one hopes that when nations refer to their bleak history, they mean centuries ago, and not "earlier this morning." One hopes ... New Zealand is Australia's Canada: They're like a quieter, more polite version of their occasionally insane neighbor. NZ ranks 10th on the world's Social Progress Index...

Products of the future inspire hope in some, fear in many, and cynicism in nearly everyone today. Hearing about the latest future product is standard today, and the newest technology keeps on getting more and more powerful. It’s left a lot of people jaded when it comes to future inventions, future trends, future transportation, and future items in general. However, a lot of the upcoming products on this list actually might be able to cut through that wall of modern cynicism, especially when it comes to the upcoming products and upcoming technology that might cure aging or car accidents.

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.

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.

In honor of the upcoming National Banned Books Week, Sam looks at books that have been ironically banned like "Huck Finn", "Catcher in the Rye", "1984", "To Kill A Mockingbird"... and even "Harry Potter" and "Where's Waldo?"

This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying “very few [long] novels earn their length.” Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major literary award these days, and many genre novels have ballooned to absurd sizes.

Lots of movies never make it past the pre-production stages. Whether it’s by failure to secure financing or mysterious delays, some movies are just destined to be pipe dreams. Every so often, however, the stars align and a movie is shot, edited and completed, but for some reason or another never sees the light of day. This most often occurs with small budget features, but every now and again, a hot property with a big budget and an all-star cast is never released.

NUMBER 8 KILLED ME :)))))))) Men are, by and large, very simple creatures. Lying d-bags and manipulative a-holes aside, there tends to be very little distance between what we say and we mean.

War is fought over many things, it can be about honor, glory, liberating a land that you believe is rightfully yours, the list goes on, but alongside those there have been a number of decidedly unusual wars, fought for trivial or even contemptible reasons...

Doing hard time in a federal prison is unthinkable for most. Even more unimaginable would be serving that time because you confessed to a murder that you didn’t commit. But if the rise of DNA testing has taught us anything, it’s that confessions aren’t as reliable as we might assume. When Anthony Caravella was arrested in late December 1983, he knew he was in trouble. After all, he had failed to appear in Florida juvenile court over charges of stealing a bicycle.

A weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, Mike tells you about some truly strange podcasts!

Some readers equate fantasy with hobbits and magic wardrobes. Others conjure images of a wizard P.I. in Chicago or a gunslinger in a magical Wild West. And that is the beauty of the genre. Fantasy thrives on the creation of new worlds, species and magic systems. It allows for the impossible to occur—for elves to fall in love with humans and for street urchins to wield magic. Fantasy introduces readers to adventures starring world-conquering...

Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. The next in the series is the writer and T contributor Bret Easton Ellis, who shares his list exclusively with T.

Now that the Super Bowl dust has settled, it's time to get Snapzu involved! I have provided an initial list of my most memorable 15 commercials and hope that some of you can add your own. If you want to add your favorites, please first make sure it's not already on the list and use similar formatting as I have provided, and try to find the official brand's Youtube video (so it's not removed). Thank you and happy voting!