It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled." — Mark Twain Ideas about our world have certainly changed over time. For example, people once thought that the earth was flat.

You wake up to an alarm, flick on the light, brew coffee, and drive to work. Every step requires energy – the stuff that shares the coin of physical reality with matter, the E in E = MC2.

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This international tribute honors the enduring global significance of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum and celebrates the literary legacies of Mark Twain and ...

Mark Twain — the subject of a new, 1,033-page biography by Ron Chernow — has been called “the Lincoln of our literature,” but his January 1869 lecture in Danville left ...