Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Long thought impossible, the discovery rewrote what ...

Every family has traditions, good or bad, that are passed down over the years. Some of those customs are helpful to the new generations, while others repeat the same dysfunction over and over. A toxic ...

Technology has the same story arc every single time something new develops. It starts as something we all share, then becomes something we each own. Your great-grandmother waited in line to use the ...

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At a certain point, we all get into our own little groove when we're tidying up, and it is easy to turn our deep cleaning checklist into a habitual routine. Some of those habits we form, however, aren ...

DEAR ANNIE: I’m a 44-year-old autistic man living in Montana. I am happily involved with a woman who has five kids, ages 12 to 24. My question is about breaking unhealthy patterns. Growing up, my ...

I’m a 44-year-old autistic man living in Montana. I am happily involved with a woman who has five kids, ages 12 to 24. My question is about breaking unhealthy patterns. Growing up, my family often ...

Dear Annie: I’m a 44-year-old autistic man living in Montana. I am happily involved with a woman who has five kids, ages 12 to 24. My question is about breaking unhealthy patterns. Growing up, my ...

Ah, the age-old dance of love and life, a bittersweet symphony playing over and over again. Why do we often find ourselves waltzing to the same tired tune, trapped in the loop of toxic cycles? Is it ...