Universities and colleges around the country are known for housing elite, spooky, Illuminati-like secret societies that meet under the cover of darkness. Yale has Skull and Bones. Cornell has Quill ...

The best thing about being a sports fan is that you can make a sport out of pretty much anything. Ultimate frisbee, for example, went from a casual game played on college campuses to having its own ...

Before Los Angeles Opera’s production of Philip Glass’ “Akhnaten” opened, general director Plácido Domingo occasionally would take a break from his office at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and slip ...

Carlos Mir, known as "Cascading Carlos," began juggling at age 10 and now performs nearly 300 shows a year. Over his 30-year career, Mir has broken three Guinness World Records, two of which he still ...

The late computer scientist Claude Shannon has a well-deserved reputation as the father of information theory, but he was also an avid unicyclist, juggler and tinkerer. He even built his own robotic ...

Among the (many, many) things you probably do not know about juggling is the fact that it is, at times, a physically grueling act. It's something I certainly failed to appreciate before meeting Alex ...

What sort of noise would juggling pins make if they fell three stories off a roof onto the pavement below? For a moment, it seems as if the adults and children gathered for the WIRED25 Festival atop ...

A well-designed robot can do any action a human can do. Whether this is an acrobatic performance, or just writing with a pen, there’s a robot out there for any single action a human can perform. This ...

Watch as Steve Butler teaches his students the mathematics of juggling. Video by Alex Murphy AMES, Iowa – Steve Butler casually tosses a ball from his left hand to his right to demonstrate his point ...