A dozen years ago, on a different website, I wrote an article titled How to Watch the World Cup Like a True Soccer Nerd. The idea was simple. It was summertime and the World Cup was around the corner ...

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Darius Partovi started taking classical piano lessons when he was 7, but he soon grew restless and gave them up. It wasn’t until COVID-19 shut down schools that he returned to his keyboard out of ...

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Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump rekindled a decades-old debate about nuclear testing. “Because of other countries testing programs,” he wrote on social media, “I have instructed the Department ...

Judd Apatow doesn’t clutter up his confession: He’s been a hoarder since childhood. “It feels like the reason why people hoard is it makes you immortal,” the 57-year-old filmmaker with multiple ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Trying to teach a friend or loved one to ski or snowboard is likely to teach the teacher a lesson they’ll never forget: So, you’re probably better off ...

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It may conjure images of Family Matters' bespectacled, suspenders-clad Steve Urkel. Or the theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Or Scooby-Doo's Velma. Or you may ...