It was 10 o'clock on September 15, in 2021, and the town of Denton, North Carolina went dark. More than 1,400 people found themselves without power, which is a big deal in a town with a total population of 1,660. A little later that morning, [...]

It was March of 2022, and Martin Douthwaite began walking on a crisp March afternoon in Selby, England. His plan was to make a circle around his village walking completely around it, and then around it again, and then around it again. In fact, he [...]

Ohio surgeon Michael S. Kavic once wrote in a medical journal that when interviewing candidates for a surgical residency, the qualifications he looked for were not necessarily the qualities you might expect: a high intellect, excellent hand-eye [...]

Dean Karnazes stumbled as he reached the front porch of his San Francisco area house. He had just spent an evening celebrating his 30th birthday, and he was really drunk. He had a successful job in corporate America, but he didn't know what his [...]

On May 26, 2013, 4:30 p.m., a massive ocean swell slammed into the Jascon-4, a tugboat towing a oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria. The waves sprayed sheets of water across the deck, cracking a piece of the hull and flipping the vessel over on its [...]

It was a dream come true from Roman Yurkov. As a 35-year-old car salesman from Tula, Russia, Yurkov had his share of financial troubles, including a gambling habit. Like most people in his community, he was doing the best he could to get by. Then [...]