Before she became one of the most acclaimed TV stars of her generation, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' career had some false starts. For example, after a three-year stint on "Saturday Night Live," she ...

Antidisestablishmentarianism, everyone’s favorite agglutinative, entered the pop culture lexicon on August 17, 1955, when Gloria Lockerman, a 12-year-old girl from Baltimore, correctly spelled it on ...

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Many Christmas babies have traditionally carried a key sign throughout their lives of when they were born in the form of their name ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Classical conditioning is a way to learn using unconscious associations. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning when dogs started to salivate at the sound of a bell before they got food. The ...