Dear Annie: My sister and her husband have some habits that really turn me off when I visit. They leave dirty pots and pans on the stove for weeks. They allow used dishes, cups and utensils to pile up in the sink until it is overflowing. They have a...
A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said. The study, the longest-running of its kind, sh...
You're on the deck catching rays, and even though you know you aren't supposed to tan without sunblock, you figure you'll be able to tell if you start to get really burned. Sure enough, after a little while you can see a redness coloring your skin, b...
Yael: Hey Don, see that guy over there? I'm always forgetting his name! Don: Oh, you mean Matt? Y: Yeah, that's it! You know, it's really easy for me to remember some names, but others take a lot of work. D: Don't feel bad. It might be because Matt's...
If you visit a cave on a hot summer day, you might come away with the impression that it's somewhat cold underground. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. The Earth's temperature increases steadily the deeper you go. Indeed, mine worker...
Don: Hey Yal, why are you wearing safety goggles? Yal: In case I run into any spitting cobras, Don. D: Spitting cobras? I didn't know there were any wild cobras in the United States. Y: There aren't. Cobras live in Africa and Asia where they kill tho...
A sailboat is powered by wind, a motorboat by gasoline, and a rowboat by whatever the rower had for breakfast. There's one water craft, however, that gets all its horizontal push from the downward pull of gravity alone. Is this some futuristic new ty...
Before MP3s and other forms of digitized music there were CDs. Before CDs came vinyl records. And before vinyl? Most of us are not nearly old enough to remember, but in the early years of the twentieth century popular songs such as By the Light of th...
Dear Annie: I'm 20 years old. My boyfriend and I have a 6-month-old baby boy. When I met Jake, he was 18, had never worked a day in his life and was a serious drug addict. I got him to stop doing drugs and he even got a job, although his hiring cost...
Don: Zzzzap! zzzzaapp! Yal: What are you doing, Don? D: Yal, I'm pretending I'm an electric fish having a conversation. Y: Like an electric eel? D: The so-called electric eel is one kind of fish that produces electrical discharges. They can emit very...
