A monthlong examination of inventors, creators, and innovators whose seemingly wild ideas eventually turned out to be brilliant.

With another J.K. Rowling blockbuster hitting theaters this week, we look back at the author’s knotty path to success.

When he made his case for the Atkins diet on the cover of the New York Times Magazine in 2002, the critics piled on. Now he’s ready to talk about it.

The story behind the world’s most ingenious fastener.

Turns out it was the best move he ever made.

After ten years, the data is in on The Actor’s Gang Prison Project: those who go through the program are five times less likely to return to prison.

Denied twice for the same job, a young Harvard Law student struck back with his typewriter and composed an instant classic.