What You Know Might Surprise You
"Lightning never strikes the same place twice" is one of those phrases Americans grow up hearing as if it were a law of nature. It isn't — and in fact, lightning does the exact opposite. The Empire State Building gets hit around 20 to 25 times a year, and the physics explain exactly why.
Contributing to a 401(k) has become something close to financial gospel in the United States — automatic, unquestioned, and treated as obviously correct. But the real math depends on details most people never look at, and for some workers, following the conventional wisdom without thinking costs real money.
Digg was once the undisputed king of social news, a site that could make or break a story with a single front-page placement. Then Reddit happened, a catastrophic redesign drove millions of users away, and what followed was one of the most fascinating comeback stories in internet history. Here's how it all went down.