Sports is so prepackaged, so diagrammed to death by experts and analysts, that it's reduced to all the charm of following the Dow Jones average on CNBC.

Really, the CD-rom drive as drink holder story never gets old.

Props to NPR for a punny title.

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, settled a debt recently that was run up by an ancestor more than 350 years ago.

Mars, the maker of M&Ms, is teaming with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and IBM to make chocolate give up its secrets.

To truly understand Japanese game shows, you just need to understand two words: absurdity and pain.

Have you ever really thought about all the things that ads tell you to do?

Repairs to the facade of the NPR building in Washington, D.C., have produced steady, deeply distracting noise -- prompting a search for practical solutions.

All the Democratic presidential candidates pledged not to campaign in Florida when the state violated the national party's ban on an early contest. Now Sen. Hillary Clinton is making a clear play for support in the state, where voters will go to the polls

Marti Noxon, an executive for ABC's Private Practice, talks about how a reduced pilot-production schedule might affect audiences, TV writers and the studios.

Harley Spiller has about a million objects crammed into his small apartment, including a world-record 10,000 Chinese takeout menus. He also collects bottle caps, packs of gum, and other odds and ends. He thinks he's got his hobby under control.

Over the weekend, officials at the French bank Societe Generale uncovered a massive trading fraud that is one of history's biggest -- more than $7 billion. A 31-year-old trader is the reported mastermind behind the scheme of fictitious transactions.

Boggleific and Scrabulous are online versions of two popular games owned by the toy company Hasbro: Scrabble and Boggle. But creators of the online games have reacted differently to a cease-and-desist order from Hasbro.

Page discusses what it's like being the youngest nominee in the bunch and her future plans.

The use of modern lighting has made people "chronically sleep deprived," one doctor says.

Undefeated New England will face New York in February's Super Bowl

A new study arrives at the counter-intuitive conclusion that violent films may reduce crime rates. Economist and co-author Gordon Dahl explains.

Cloverfield, the highly anticipated new film produced by the creator of such TV shows as Alias and Lost, is out in theaters next week. For months, Internet speculation about the movie has been rampant.

Director Sidney Lumet discusses his latest film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke and why he insists on working with actors who have "talent and no madness."

For his first full-length feature, Jay Craven convinced Michael J. Fox to work for free.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee makes a tongue-in-cheek vice-presidential offer to Steven Colbert, whose TV character lampoons right-wing talk-show hosts.

Once upon a time, Kirkland, Wash., was a quiet bedroom community on the east side of Seattle. Now condos, restaurants and boutiques are popping up, attracting many high-tech employees with discretionary income.

But the Renaissance man also invented fluid dynamics and, perhaps, the scientific method. Fritjof Capra writes about Leonardo's investigations of the natural world in his new book.

He's also author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics.