There are many roads to greatness, but logging 10,000 hours of practice to help you perfect a skill may not be sufficient. Based on research suggesting that practice is the essence of genius, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea that 10,000 hours of appropriately guided practice was “the magic number ...

Kevin Powell (born April 24, 1966) is an American political activist, poet, writer, and entrepreneur. Powell is also a nationally recognized activist who speaks against violence against girls and women. Kevin Powell has written for publications such as Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, New York Amsterdam News, and ...

Tonya Lewis-Taylor has been a backup singer for Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige; she has toured Japan and Europe with Vy Higgensen’s “Mama I want to Sing,” and helped promote major music stars like Jay-Z and Jamie Foxx. She has a gospel single coming out in March. The Brooklyn product ...

There are few absolutes in weight loss science. High-carb versus low-carb diets are still the subject of endless debate. Whether snacks make you slimmer or fatter is an argument for the ages. The evidence for calories-in versus calories-burned is even being questioned. Amid this dissonant squabbling a clarion truth emerges: ...

Muddy Waters got it right with his anthemic song, “The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll.” And few figures ever personified that evolutionary link as clearly as Big Joe Turner, the blues shouter–turned–early rock and roll hero, who celebrates a birthday — it would have ...

She doesn’t have cancer yet, but like many women with breast cancer mutations, she had the radical surgery to lower her risk. Describing her decision as “My Medical Choice,” the 37-year-old actress revealed in an op-ed in the New York Times that she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, which gives her ...

Angelina Jolie deserves praise for her decision to reveal in a New York Times op-ed that she recently underwent a preventive double mastectomy. She had the surgery after discovering she carried a gene mutation that gave her a high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers. As an engaged and ...

So, I’ve been listening to a lot of Dave Brubeck recently. By itself, this information isn’t worth commentary. After all, Brubeck was an internationally-renowned, award-winning composer-performer whose career spanned more than half a century (and over one hundred albums), so clearly, many have listened to his work before my recent discovery. ...

At her Seattle high school, Shannon Keating wears a hat to camouflage a head made bare by chemotherapy. In the hospital, surrounded by other teens her age, she’s more comfortable going bald. “I feel fine not wearing a hat because you know everyone went through the same loss,” says the ...

When Tony Wheeler and his wife Maureen founded Lonely Planet in 1973, guidebooks for the traveler on a shoestring were an unheard-of concept. The couple’s first overland trip through Europe and Asia to Australia prompted them to fill this niche and now, 100 million+ Lonely Planet books later, adventurous budget ...