If you’re like my mom, our Halloween candy was strictly rationed. So it may surprise you to learn some dentists recommend eating the haul all at once. I first wrote about this on November 1, 2017, and not surprisingly, the same article is back in the news feed. So I’m revisiting this as a public
It’s a natural instinct to live as long as possible. But to become immortal? Technology may be giving us a way. Suppose your great grandson wanted your advice ten years after your death. He wouldn’t be able to talk to you directly, of course, but what if you had a digital avatar programmed with all
Today we take tipping at restaurants for granted. But it wasn’t always this way. Where did the practice come from? You may have heard the word “tip” is an acronym for “To Insure Promptness,” but that is a myth. Some think it either came from Europeans visiting this country, or U.S. travelers returning from Europe,
Have you ever wished for a third arm? How much easier would that make your life? Believe it or not, technology is advancing to give you that wish. Researchers in Japan recently announced they have built a device that will allow people to perform a second task with a robot arm. The wearer of the
There is a shortage of brains. No, this has nothing to do with politics. It’s about medical research. Neuroscientists require all kinds of brain tissue to study diseases that affect at least 15 percent of people around the world. I’m sure you’re well-versed with the concept of organ donation. Unfortunately, simply filling out an organ-donor
Facebook and its related privacy concerns have been in the news a lot lately. I thought this would be a good time to ask — how is Facebook doing? Are they meeting your privacy concerns? Or is this entire subject being overblown by the media? If you’d like to know what really goes on in
An amazing story jumped out of the newspaper at me recently. A young man gave his fiancee a smog free engagement ring ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/fashion/weddings/a-wedding-ring-with-a-dirty-little-secret.html ). A what? Four years ago, Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch artist and technologist, was visiting Beijing, China, a city notorious for its air pollution. When he returned home, Roosegaarde decided to design
When I lived in Southern California from 1982 to 1986, I took an afternoon course about restaurants at the local community college. I learned such useful tidbits as to avoid the “Chef’s Special” — usually some forgotten meat they’d found in the back of the freezer, scraped the mold off, cooked it well, hid it
You’ve probably heard plenty of talk about how our diet has changed over the years. Specifically, reliance on processed foods have given us a disposition towards obesity. I believe this, because I’ve been reading food labels and I always find some type of sugar somewhere in the ingredients of almost everything. Or am I being
On the theory that everyone likes to talk about sex (and if that’s wrong, this is going to be really embarrassing), but the NPR show Radiolab has recently broadcast a series of six programs on sexuality under the apt umbrella title of “Gonads.” The series began with “The Primordial Journey” (June 20) on sex selection