He avoided fame, lived in isolation, and ignored modern math — but still changed it forever. His life reads like fiction, but ...

Dr. Pimple Popper—a.k.a. dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee—stopped by the Mental Floss offices in 2019 to define 12 dermatological terms that you’ll often hear her discuss with her patients. Open comedones ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

(1) Initials for asset-backed security. See asset-backed security. (2) The name for a convention used to express the rate of prepayments for an asset-backed security. ABS expresses principal ...

People often use the terms “sex” and “gender” interchangeably, but this is incorrect. Sex refers to biological physical differences, while gender is how people identify. The use of binary terms such ...

Market cap calculates a company's value by multiplying share price with shares outstanding. Large-cap stocks are stable with dividends; small-cap stocks offer growth with higher risks. Diversifying ...

Refugees are people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. They often have had to flee with little more than ...