Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Conducting refreshingly engaging interviews with top Hollywood stars. For decades now, Academy Award winner Halle Berry has been ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

During Foucalt’s life it was already proven that the Earth rotated, thanks to experiments which showed that weights dropped from tall towers fell slightly to one side rather than straight down. This ...

In September of 1963 — as the Civil Rights Act and nationalized desegregation reached inevitability — the Ku Klux Klan perpetrated one of the most despicable acts of domestic terrorism in American ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. She was also the founding editor of TIME’s history section. We sometimes hear that time moves forward in one direction, like an arrow. History must too. Or perhaps ...

Nearly every company I’ve heard pitch in the past six months has said, “We expect this to be the last round we raise before we are self-funding.” Honestly, I don’t believe them. And, I’m generally—but ...

It should have been a quiet Election Day this year, but two states drew national attention at the polls. The proposed personhood amendment in Mississippi that would have effectively outlawed abortion ...

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) is a horror mystery film directed by Roger Corman and written by Richard Matheson. Set in the sixteenth century, the film follows Francis Barnard, a young Englishman ...

Winston Churchill famously said that if government officials “make 10,000 regulations,” they “destroy all respect for the law.” We’ve long passed that point here in the United States. But what if, as ...