“This is about very bright children who are unusually late—sometimes years behind schedule—in beginning to talk. Most bright children are not late in talking and most children who are late in ta......

“Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, tho......

“An accidental invention is a kind of paradox. On one level, almost everything associated with the invention seems to occur by happenstance but on another level, it is noteworthy that these mistakes......

In August 1957, William Shockley was recruiting staff for his Palo Alto, California, start-up, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. He felt like he was on the cusp of history, in the right place at the ......

Nothing embarrasses a publisher or a critic more than the public knowledge that a literary classic or a mega best seller has somehow slipped away. Here is an interesting peep into the rejected ones wh......