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Instead of harvesting pine nuts by climbing trees, the man in China used a hydrogen balloon. When his balloon became untethered, he drifted off. He landed 200 miles from where he started.

Stand-up comedian and Seinfeld writer Carol Leifer recounts her experiences in love and comedy in her new memoir, When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win.

Alex the African gray parrot could do more than speak and understand he could also count, identify colors and develop an emotional relationship. When Alex died in September 2007, his last words to scientist Irene Pepperberg were "You be good. I love you."

In Stem Cell Now, bioethics expert Christopher Thomas Scott explores the possibilities of what some consider the greatest discovery since nuclear fusion: the isolation of embryonic stem cells for research.

Paging Agent Mulder...

The author of Fight Club has a new collection of short stories out, called Haunted. But that's not all he's up to this October. Chuck Palahniuk has a zealous fan base mostly centered around his Web site. But this month, he's vowed to answer fan letters... not e-mail.

Esther Schor, poet and professor of English at Princeton University, has written a biography of Emma Lazarus, whose verse graces the Statue of Liberty. Lazarus' life and work are worth a second look in light of the current debate on U.S. immigration policy.

Susan Hirsch's husband was a victim of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The cultural anthropologist has written a book about dealing with the tragedy, In the Moment of Greatest Calamity.

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, a new novel by Mojha Kahf is about a Syrian girl transplanted to the American Midwest in the 1970s. The book delves into clashes among Muslims and bigotry from non-Muslim Americans.

Ali Rap collects more than 300 quotable moments from the life of The Greatest, beginning with the days of the brash young fighter Cassius Clay and following him through trials and tribulations, victory and defeat as he grows into Muhammad Ali, the global icon.