POSTED // Oct 21,2009 - What's the deal with getting a song stuck in your head? Why does it happen, especially if it's a song you don't like or don't even know well? Yet all you can think about is that stupid tune.

POSTED // Oct 14,2009 - Years ago you were asked whether it was legal to publish a letter someone had sent you. You said the author's permission was needed. Now that it's 2009...

POSTED // Oct 7,2009 - I play poker with this guy on a fairly regular basis at the casino. He's got this medical alert dog he brings with him everywhere. Apparently the dog will warn him 20 minutes prior...

POSTED // Sep 30,2009 - Some years ago I read about a slightly loony "garbologist" who liked to go through people's trash, including that of one person in particular--Mr. Robert Zimmerman of Woodstock, New York, aka Bob Dylan...

POSTED // Sep 23,2009 - I love to go to the steam room (or if there isn't one, the sauna) after a workout. But I've always wondered: Do they really help? Or rather: I sweat a lot in the steam room...

POSTED // Sep 16,2009 - I'm sure you're familiar with the tale of Clarence Darrow hiding a wire in his cigar to keep the ash...

POSTED // Sep 9,2009 - Do earlobe creases really indicate you may have coronary heart disease?

POSTED // Sep 2,2009 - Do mosquitoes favor certain blood types over others? I have noticed while out working that mosquitoes love me, while my brother never gets bit. Why is my blood so tasty?

POSTED // Aug 26,2009 - I've noticed a lot of my neighbors have built elevated gardening beds in their yards using wood that's marked as treated with arsenic. Will the arsenic get ...

POSTED // Aug 19,2009 - Are there really bus-size nuclear reactors all over Europe (especially in France), that can safely power small towns? If so, why don’t we have them?