As a longtime member of The Rotary Club of Boca Raton, Kenneth Davis has reached out to underprivileged youth for more than 20 years. Over the past two years, he has actively raised more than $100,000 in donations and pledges for the students of Tomorrow’s Promise Community School, a Palm Beach County charter school for at-risk students.

University of Pennsylvania marketing professor Jonah Berger says you can become the talk of the town—provided you have a compelling enough story to tell.

Former American Scholar editor Joseph Epstein, author of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit, dishes about rumor-mongering and why it’s not all bad.

Author Joshua Foer shares a few tricks he learned while training to become the 2006 U.S. Memory Champion.