Marketplace: Slide on, click in place and go play

Like every great invention, Tom Vollbrecht came up with his after getting fed up and thinking, "There's got to be a better way.

'Airplane!' exposes difference between the sexes

Women. They just don't understand. Men can watch "The Godfather" (I and II, but never III) and "Goodfellas" as many times as Spike TV wants to broadcast them.

Flying pioneer

100 years ago, Lilian Bland made a historic flight in her glider, called the Mayfly.

Whips & Chains

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors is often harshly criticized for, among other things, not being all that funny. Watching Sonoma County Repertory Theater's wacky new outdoor staging of the much-maligned, infrequently performed show, it's hard to believe that such stuff could ever not have been funny.

Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions of All Time [Eureka]

# eureka "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice—but by chance. Below are our ten favorite serendipitous innovations. More »

It’s a Bird—It’s a Plane—It’s a —HELICOPTER! In Memorial Stadium

To demonstrate the stability of his aircraft Stanley Hiller, Jr. sticks his hands out of the helicopter during one of his Memorial Stadium test flights in 1944.