I've never been a huge fan of those earbud headphones that stick right in your auditory canal and wrap around your cochlea. They go a long way towards speeding up your imminent loss of hearing long before you're old enough…
Continue Reading →I've been making an effort of late to carry around less junk with me. Anyone who knows me knows that wherever I am, there's a giant purse or laptop bag -- sometimes both -- and I'm at the point where…
Continue Reading →While love may make the world go round, denim keeps the majority of the world's inhabitants from being pantsless. It's a rare phenomenon where one material has become the textile of choice the world over, but have you ever stopped…
Continue Reading →Admit it. Ever since you were a kid, you've harbored fantasies of blasting off into the great beyond of outer space. Heck, you still read science fiction novels and imagine yourself in the role of the heroic space adventurer fighting…
Continue Reading →Telling time is hard. First, you have to remember that the little hand points to the hour; then you have to remember that the big hand tells you what minute it is. It gets even harder when you realize that…
Continue Reading →Are you a currently unattached singular being? Maybe you've got your eye on someone but you're a little too shy to ask them out? Have you thought about being a secret admirer? Sure, we know that sounds a little fifth…
Continue Reading →Subjects like clogged nasal passages, STDs and ingrown toenails aren't exactly topics you can break bread over. Mold, then, without having to explain, is a no-no ice breaker. For example, mold jokes just don't fly. Television programs used to love…
Continue Reading →Have you ever imagined your cup of afternoon tea as a hot steaming sea of soothing flavor? Well, if you have, have you ever stopped to think that instead of adding some sugar or milk to make that body of…
Continue Reading →Valentine's Day is right around the corner and since your relationship dodged quite a bullet last year when you waited until the last minute so the sweet shop only had leftover Hannukah gelt, it would probably be a good idea…
Continue Reading →In 2007 Arab-American documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim was awarded a TED Idea Prize for her wish to "bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film." The realization of her dream will happen on May…
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