How to bowl a strike
The experts writing in Men’s Fitness say here’s how to do it: 1. Take the traditional four-step approach. 2. Extend the ball out on the first step, down…
Category: Seasonal
Ski fever: The highest slopes can cause mountain fever
For doctors and nurses at Colorado’s highest elevations, ski season means a steady flow of casualties from a little-understood problem: acute mountain…
2020: It has sounded like the future for years
You have arrived at the year 2020 — a historic year where we have finally trained animals to do the hard work, like the gorilla that flies the family…
2020: What could happen; what will happen; what did happen
Given the speed of technology and change, what could happen in 2020? Here are some ideas. Things predicted in 2010 at the Consumer Electronics Show for…
Heart attack on a stick or just good eating? Lard makes a comeback
If you are over 60 years old, chances are you saw your mother or grandmother use lard in cooking. But if you are younger, the practice might seem strange…
Americans still love Christmas
Christmas is still a favorite holiday in America, even though the religious observation of it is slipping a bit. According to the Pew Research Center,…
Famous painting by George Caleb Bingham of the Christmas Crossing. Created about 1856.
In 1776, the fate of America turned on the Christmas Crossing At Christmastime in 1776, George Washington’s troops were in retreat, barely keeping ahead…
Mistletoe winds its way through human history
Being kissed under the mistletoe has been a Christmas tradition for more than a thousand years. But mistletoe is not only associated with a gentle kiss,…
Not too merry
In colonial New England it was once decreed that anyone found feasting, celebrating, or acting frivolous on the sacred day of December 25 would be fined…
Fibonacci Day 11-23 (Get it?)
Here is an idea by 12th century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa that even those uncertain about math can understand. Although it seems simple,…