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The Worst Sales Promotion in History
In 1992, an electronics company offered free international flights with a £100 purchase. Today, it’s cited as the worst promotion in history.
In 1992, an electronics company offered free international flights with a £100 purchase. Today, it’s cited as the worst promotion in history.
So many food blogs and recipe sites are full of pretty pictures but untested recipes. Don’t worry, it’s possible to find something you’ll love to cook and eat.
Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?
Crispy, no-mess perfection.
There are more and more ways to monitor our heart rates, but what do the numbers really mean? Here is everything you need to know.
Objects may not be as fast as they appear with this universal illusion.
What is the key to creativity, and how does it help our mental health? Beverley D’Silva speaks to author Julia Cameron and others about ’flow’, fear and curiosity.
It is an emotion linked to improved health and well-being, but is our obsession with being happy a recipe for disappointment, asks Nat Rutherford.
In our era of globalization, your job performance may depend on your “CQ”. So what is it?
Here’s why this cheesy, savory seasoning deserves a spot in your pantry.
More than genes and upbringing determine animal personalities: There’s a good dose of chance in the mix, too.
Get glowing skin without spending a single cent.
From bad bosses to gossipy colleagues and, of course, office refrigerator drama.
A no-guilt screen-time guide.
From Russian Egg Roulette to the showpiece Throw and Catch, the World Egg Throwing Championships is a cracking tournament.
I didn’t know how you could inventory memories. I might search for a particular one, bring it up, dust it off. But how to count five days’ worth?
In detox centers and online support communities, it’s called “the little blue devil.” But its real name is less insidious: “Feel Free” is a drink sold in tiny blue bottles in gas stations, liquor stores and smoke shops to people 21 years or older.
I spent months limiting my movement, to protect a high-risk pregnancy. How did it change me?
As increasing numbers of us can’t or won’t have children, Helen Coffey talks to those who are planning their lives without a nuclear family, and investigates why government policy has yet to catch up with this rapidly growing demographic.
TikTok beauty influencer Kaycee Ogle is regularly contacted by brands who want her to promote their products. But one email she received in June was different, and made her curious.
From "wandering wombs" to modern biases, the troubling politics of hysterectomies
These are not traditional, word-heavy trade deals with text agreed to by all negotiators.
After a summer filled with outdoor play, screen time, and relaxed routines, getting kids back into the habit of reading can be a challenge.
On October 26, 60 participants will run laps in a Swedish zinc mine in complete silence, 4,300 feet below Earth’s surface
Democrats are focusing their message around access to healthcare. Republicans are countering that the tax provisions will put more money in voters’ pockets.
She disliked the term “giving money away.” Philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, who died at 86 at her home in Los Angeles on Monday, much preferred “using it wisely,” which she did—and often.
A gunman who opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building on Monday believed he suffered a brain injury that he blamed on the National Football League, New York’s mayor said, thrusting the issue of chronic traumatic encephalopathy back into headline
Script yourself some go-to phrases ahead of time.
Discover how researcher tell which foods dinosaurs preferred just by analyzing their fossilized tooth enamel.
Knives out: Cosmetic surgery is finally out of the closet, turning actors into evangelists and top doctors into superstars, yet there’s still a very common procedure that nobody wants to talk about.
Tokyo’s Michelin-starred restaurants may dominate the conversation, but the city’s quickfire comfort food is tasty and affordable.
And they could help some creatures adjust to changing climates
Women’s basketball players are demanding higher pay. That’s what happens when business is booming.
When it meets this week, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep its key short-term interest rate at its current target range — where it has stayed for all of 2025.
I work hard, buy quality clothes and know how to fake my way through dinner-party conversations. But behind the scenes, I’m part of a fast-growing Canadian underclass.
This year, parents will pay more for back-to-school essentials such as pens, pencils and backpacks.
“You can only refill a deflated balloon so much, and often surgical intervention is necessary.”
Rigorous new research appears to show that monthly checks intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their well-being, adding a new element to a dispute over expanded government aid.
Many high earners in the U.S. still feel broke. Between lifestyle creep, debt and social pressure, even $200,000 per year doesn’t always buy peace of mind.
The rise of ARFID, a new eating disorder driven not by body image but by fear.
From picking a career to picking a spouse, one radical philosophical idea will guide you.
The gunman accused of killing four people in New York City suspected he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE — a degenerative brain disease often associated with football players.
It’s tempting to imagine what we might have done differently. But, as Diana Nyad says: ‘We earn our wisdom.’
The new tariff could increase prices on goods such as cars, furniture and pharmaceuticals. Trump's tariffs are expected to raise prices by 1.8% in the short term, per the Yale Budget Lab.
Millions of animals are stuck in increasingly cramped shelters because their owners are struggling to pay rising vet bills and other expenses.