College baseball officials introduced a new metal bat this season designed to rein in the surging number of home runs and runs scored. So far it has worked but two teams have seen their offensive numbers soar instead. Their secret? Time spent hitting with wooden bats.

Interest in online celebrity death pools has grown, according to those who run them, with more people embracing the lighter, and sometimes profitable, side of eternal rest.

Former congressman and physicist Bill Foster thinks electing more scientists to Congress will make government work better, so he created Albert’s List, a political action committee named after Albert Einstein.

Star forward Blake Griffin has drawn new fans to the perennially losing Los Angeles Clippers. Diehard fans of the city’s second-favorite professional basketball team are enjoying the attention, but they wonder: Can it last?

Books that let readers choose from different plot twists sold millions in the 1980s and 1990s. Now they are being revived and improved for the digital age.