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The brain is easily the most complicated organ in your body and the nimblest computer that has ever existed. But no matter how powerful its operating system, its storage system stinks. Memory is imperfect. It depends on how rested we…
For much of baseball's history, pitchers rarely threw a ball 100 miles per hour (m.p.h.). But over the past decade, more pitchers have been coming closer to triple digits than ever before. Among pitchers who threw at least 40 innings…
It was June 6, 1989, and President George H.W. Bush had just placed a ban on all imports of elephant ivory into the United States. A wildlife inspector spotted a shipment of about 200 ornately carved ivory buttons. The person…
