Superstition invokes cute fertility symbols
According to one funny tradition, if you say “Rabbit Rabbit” on the first day of the month before you say anything else, you’ll have good luck. You can…
Month: September 2023
Trying to save money? Cut this
One simple way to give yourself more wiggle room in your budget or more padding in your savings account: Stop eating out. Americans spend an average of…
Man finds hoard of gold in Kentucky
Imagine a time of war. Raiders from an army will come and steal your valuables. You hide them. But you never get back to those valuables, even your gold,…
Artist as stargazer
One of the most famous artistic views of the night sky, Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, seems fanciful in its elaborate swirls and waves of the sky, but…
Ticks can fly?
Those icky, dangerous, blood-sucking ticks are lazy and they can’t jump. But they can fly — sort of. According to a study in the journal Current Biology,…
The slick history of WD-40
As you probably already know, WD-40 is a pretty slick invention. But have you ever wondered where this wonder solvent came from? In 1953, a trio of…
How China fuels the fentanyl pandemic
In 2022, more than two-thirds of over 100,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids, most commonly illicit fentanyl. Much of the illegally…
The Fed aims for a soft landing
Set your TV to a financial news channel and you might catch a pundit warning that Fed rate hikes will surely result in a hard landing. Another pundit…