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After an Alzheimer's diagnosis, novelist Amy Bloom's husband asked for help to die with dignity. Sipress endured 25 years of rejection before finally landing a gig with The New Yorker in 1998.

Underneath the surface, there lies a vast network of natural and manmade waterways. Cave diver Jill Heinerth shares her adventures through our planet's plumbing and the ways it secretly connects us.

We compost plants and livestock, so why not humans? Katrina Spade says that if you want to help the planet one last time, consider composting your body.

The largest predator in history was bigger than a T. Rex and longer than a school bus. And it swam. Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim shares his quest to uncover the Spinosaurus.

In what may be the only recording of his voice, James Naismith describes how he created basketball to occupy his stir-crazy students during a snowy winter in New England.

The economic restriction, one of several announced in recent weeks, is meant to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin and further hobble Russia's finances as it invades Ukraine.

App developer Apoorva Mehta almost gave up on being an entrepreneur until he figured out what he really wanted to do: find a hassle-free way to buy groceries. Five years after launch, the grocery delivery app Instacart is valued at $3 billion.

Ever since she was a little girl playing dress-up in her aunt's closet, Kendra Scott loved fashion. Her first business was a hat shop, which she started at 19 – it failed. A few years later, she started a jewelry business out of her spare bedroom. Today the company is reportedly valued at more than a billion dollars.

Climate change — combined with dwindling water resources and new infrastructure — means states like Kansas are becoming cotton countries.

Mayor Ivan Fedorov was abducted on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials. He was reportedly seized by approximately 10 people while in the city center, and they put a plastic bag over his head.