Summer days mean beaches, barbeques, and more outdoor activities. We all know the importance of staying hydrated on hot days—it’s our bodies' natural response to reach for a cold drink. But not …
A Fruitful Holiday Season
Fruit + Mouth = YUM When you read a digital clock, do you try to make equations out of the time? When you're driving, do you calculate factors of the mile markers and add license plate numbers up to …
Are Your Boots Made For Walking?
Regular exercise is great for you, even without any other complicated changes to your daily routine. A Duke University study showed that walking just 30 minutes a day could help you lose weight and …
Yosemite Gold Rush
Prospecting for gold always makes me hungry. Panning for flakes gets me thinking about crispy corn cereal and managing a sluice box always leaves me craving a juice box. It’s been a long time since …
ORANGE = EGNARO
The sound is deafening. In the post-Thanksgiving haze of sleeping babies and whispering adults tip-toeing on sock feet, the plastic-on-plastic rumbling of the Boggle game sounds like a string of …
This Week in History: 7 letters, rhymes with Puma…
1938 - Bartholomew Cubbins takes off first of 500 hats 1957 - IBM 704 plots Sputnik's exact orbit over a period of six days 1981 - Kwicky Koala premiers following The SuperFriends Hour, 8 am …
Move Over Charlie Brown, it’s the Great Pomegranate!
By Jeff Koelemay Dracula and Linus walk into a Halloween pumpkin patch. Linus says, "Hey, are you waiting for the great pumpkin too?" Dracula strokes his pointy chin and looks a little embarrassed. …
