Risk: What’s safe and what’s dangerous
It’s healthy to put your fears in perspective with real world risks. David Ropeik of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis can help. Individual risk will…
Category: General Interest
How to be a good pet grooming customer
The best pet grooming customers usually end up with the best grooming service. That’s what pet groomers told Reader’s Digest recently when they all agreed…
Vehicles with the highest mileage and longest life
If you want to keep your car well past the pay-off date, follow the recommended maintenance schedule. If you want to keep it until it’s an antique, buy a…
Why do we drive on different sides of the road?
If you decide to take a drive in the United Kingdom, remember that the locals drive on the left (wrong?) side of the road. Ever wonder why most countries…
One square inch of silence still exists
Outside, a young person drives by with his car stereo booming a relentless ear-shattering boom, boom, boom. You wonder how long he himself will be able to…
These sounds have vanished
If you are of a certain age, you can close your eyes and hear the sound of a rotary dial phone. It’s one of the common sounds of the beginning of the 20th…
The dragon rules the zodiac
The Chinese zodiac proclaims 2024 to be one of the most prosperous and its all due to one mystical creature with the head of a camel, the neck of a snake…
Treasure hunt story lives on long after author’s death
The man who started it all is dead. Byron Preiss died in 2005, two decades after he engineered a multi-city treasure hunt with puzzles provided in his…
There’s no place like probation: An aging mobster’s last big score
Terry Jon Martin might be one of the only people in America who never saw The Wizard of Oz when he was a kid. If he had, then he might have understood…
The great cursive comeback
Generation after generation, young school-aged children labored over cursive handwriting workbooks, tracing over unfamiliar letters and joining those…