Surf the web on almost any subject and eventually you’ll get a hit at About.com, which bills itself as a resource offering expert guidance from people like you and me.

A new economic report this week warns that specialty retailers are likely to start tanking once the stimulus checks are spent.

For the first time since the women’s movement came about, an economic recovery has come and gone and the percentage of women at work has fallen, not risen, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Has girl power lost its momentum? Women continue to be underrepresented in top management positions on both sides of the Atlantic.…

When asked to think of vacation hotspots, not many people choose Canada.

On July 16, scientists at Brown University availed themselves of instrumentation aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to report that the southern part of Mars was once bathed in water and capable of sustaining biological life.

In Maine, as they contemplate the costs for this coming heating season, pundits are calling it the "Frozen Economy."

I know it doesn’t do much good around my house. Vacuum one day, and the next the floors look like the bottom of a chicken coop.

Photo: epicharmus, Creative Commons, Flickr On July 14, William Greider, a man after my own heart, published astinging commentary on the current financial crisis.

In 1965, a group called The Mamas & the Papas came out with a song, “California Dreamin’. The lyrics describe a New York winter and a nostalgia for Los Angeles, a place described as safe and warm.

From Liesl Schillinger’s New York Times Book Review of Rivka Glachen’s Atmospheric Disturbances: Leo hops a plane to Argentina to find out, using Gal-Chen’s research on retrieving "thermodynamic variables from within deep convective clouds" to guide his own blundering "attempts at retrieval" of the "real" Rema. No, this is not chick lit. It’s unusual —…