After spending his working life watching the clock, punching in and out and living paycheck to paycheck, Paul Swanson is back in school. Swanson is 62 years old, a disabled veteran, who is beginning ...

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My father did everything the retirement playbook told him to do — clubs, golf, community — and still ended up sitting alone ...

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Meet AbleLight Thrift Shop in Appleton, Wisconsin, where bargain hunting becomes a full-contact sport and your shopping cart gets more of a workout than you did all week.

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Product designers are coming up with ways to rouse deep sleepers that are both creative and diabolical.

Michael Talarico clearly has a sense of humor. “So this is a Revolutionary War clock,” he quipped as he approached the table at a recent Trash or Treasure appraisal session held at the Michigan Design ...

Jamie Kripke designed an analog clock that he said won’t “scare you awake.” Instead, it plays one of seven melodies specifically composed to arouse you gently. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...

Time crystals are an oddity of quantum physics, but new calculations show that these bizarre materials could be useful for building very accurate clocks. All crystals are defined by repetition – ...

Michigan may still be facing cold and snow, but in just a few weeks, it will be time to spring your clocks forward. Daylight Saving Time begins March 8, we'll set clocks forward one hour, pushing ...