The Place to Take a Humor Break
Jane Goodall observed that male chimpanzees fall out of trees twice as often as female chimpanzees, and that all the falls over ten meters involved males. Sex and War, Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden Be […]
Whenever I get tired of depressing news stories about overpaid fat cat CEOs, I turn to the sports pages for relief. There you can return to the lost innocence of youth and find depressing sports […]
Volunteers who lathered themselves with extract of broccoli sprouts avoided skin damage from ultraviolet radiation. USAToday.com NAPLES, Florida. This sun-drenched town on the west coast of Florida is home to more retired Fortune 500 CEO’s […]
WESTLAND, Mass. Twenty-year old Todd Blinstrup, Jr. is, in the words of his mother Elaine, the “spitting image” of her mother, a former stewardess who at the age of 89 retains the striking good looks […]
I first encountered Charles Baudelaire as a sophomore in college when I read Les Fleurs du mal, and to say that dawn broke on Marblehead, as the expression has it here in Massachusetts, would not […]
ELK GROVE, Illinois. With enthusiasm for soccer running at all-time highs due to the successful completion of the 2026 World Cup matches played in the U.S. this summer, pediatricians hope to capitalize on the surge […]
Hair likely played a significant role in evolution by protecting the first modern humans and their developing brains from the blazing sun. The Wall Street Journal The sun was high in the sky and so […]
The business news story of the year so far is that IBM shareholders lost $69 billion last Tuesday after the company issued a profit warning that customers may be shift from software to artificial intelligence. […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. When this suburb of Boston decided to become a “sister city” with Pamplona, Spain a decade ago, few realized what it would mean for the many cat-owners who live here. El gato de […]
Some California water districts have resorted to deploying “water cops” to nab flagrant offenders of new water rationing restrictions, which effectively starve lawns of water. The Wall Street Journal I was sitting in an unmarked […]