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How do some of these get chosen? These sponsored ads in my newsfeed are accompanied by images that don't make much contextual sense

But do you really want to smell "inevitable"?

In 1914 the Chicago-based Brunswick company came up with a new advertising stunt: They were going to send a bowling ball around the world. But things did not go exactly as planned.

As Americans spend more of their lives online, companies are finding an increasing number of ways to follow our data trails and find out all sorts of things about our spending habits, our likes and our dislikes.The information is being used to determine things like a person’s access to credit, emplo

Fifty years after the Civil Rights era, 60 years after the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans, and almost 150 years after America's abolishment of slavery, the vast majority of the images we see in film and on TV are still of Caucasian Americans.Why are media and movies so out-of-touch with th

Fifty years after the civil rights era, and almost 150 years after slavery, the vast majority of the images we see in film and on television are still of white Americans.

The last decade was an especially tough one for Michigan: The state had the highest unemployment figures in the country for four years straight, peaking around 14 percent. Over the last decade, the population in 15 of its 20 largest cities shrank.