NEW YORK – Remember Merry-Go-Round, the hot teen retailer in the 1980s that went bankrupt in the 1990s? Teens fickle behavior has helped write the obituaries of many once hot-retailers and brands over ...

Suppose you are on a spinning merry go round and you just step off. Shouldn't the merry go round slow down? The answer is no. If you just step off, the merry go round will keep going the same speed ...

Yes. I just posted about MythBusters. However, I thought this would be an appropriate time to also talk about the physics involved with the "shoot the merry go round" myth. The basic idea of the myth ...

When I was a kid in the play park I wanted to go higher, faster and farther than everyone else. Always pushing the swings that little bit harder, bouncing that little bit higher on the trampoline or ...