This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Source: mariya_m / Pixabay The most profound reading experience I've had was the book Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say that three times fast). It was taught in a Brown University psychology intro ...

A hundred years ago, Maryland’s first state forester, Fred Besley, issued a challenge to residents: Go out in the woods and find the biggest tree you can. Then collect its measurements and send them ...

Maggie Wachter, a mother of two in Philadelphia, has heard every rinse-and-repeat excuse in the book to skip a bath. Recently, Wachter’s 11-year-old son declared that no shower was necessary after a ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — In Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, the search is on for the most perfect tree of the many millions growing in the largest national forest in the lower 48 ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Officers were called to Tierra Lynn and James Street just before 1 p.m. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. Residents return to Carver Mobile Home Ranch as Clackamas River floodwaters ...

There comes a time before every big purchase when you might ask yourself, “Do I really need this?” If you don’t pause for a moment — and if you tend to blow your budget as a result — then you need to ...