POSTED // Sep 12,2011 - I keep hearing about some study showing that a bunch of secretaries gained an average of 20 pounds when they switched from manual to electric typewriters back in the ’60s.

POSTED // Sep 5,2011 - Nobody’s claiming bacon is health food, but compared to smoking cigarettes, the Class X felony of bad habits, surely eating some fried pig fat is on a par with jaywalking. However, we don’t want feelings, we want facts.

POSTED // Aug 29,2011 - If the Earth were a perfect cube, what would the gravitational effect be at the edges?

POSTED // Aug 23,2011 - Does the average American use more energy than a blue whale? The New York Times says it’s true.

POSTED // Aug 15,2011 - Education experts had long conjectured that young kids learn better in small classes but lacked the research to prove it.

POSTED // Aug 8,2011 - The hand sanitizer industry should feel free to post this above every dispenser, so that the public may be informed.

POSTED // Aug 1,2011 - The safest place to be is in a reinforced concrete building, but if that’s not an option, a basement really is your best bet.

POSTED // Jul 25,2011 - I’ve often heard Australia contains more things that can kill you than anywhere else on the planet, often coupled with the proud assertion that our deadly wildlife is deadlier than everywhere else’s deadly wildlife.

POSTED // Jul 18,2011 - As of 2011, are we, as a nation, using significantly less paper than, say, 20 years ago? The obvious answer, to me, is yes, but then I think of all the reams of paper around offices and I wonder: Are we really using less paper and therefore saving the forests?

POSTED // Jul 11,2011 - If there was, what was the highest someone could leap from and be saved by a net being stretched between human hands?