Let me begin by saying… “In a battle between nature and culture, culture has won by a hair — or lack thereof. That’s the finding of a group of scientists in the Czech Republic. In a new study, they had male participants shave one armpit and let the other grow wild; they then collected odor samples from each… Read More »
There is nothing so wonderful as finding a wonderful software program that has a free version that does what it says it does. And there is nothing nicer than to have one of our readers (Thank you, Pam!) send us a wonderful suggestion to feature a wonderful freeware program. I’m in a wonderful mood. Can you tell? It’s… Read More »
We’re not going to dive in harp on you about the importance of strong passwords. But there is not a week goes by we don’t receive an email from one of our readers who is panicked because his/her Webmail account was hacked. Truth be known, no hacker is going to bother with an unknown person’s email account. Hackers… Read More »
Diane, one of our Premium subscribers, nominated this site for our site of the week, so those of you who want to chastise EB for another grim pick, hold your fire. Diane picked it and we thank her for suggesting it. Thanks so much, Diane. We know a lot about abusing apostrophes. For years we’ve been guilty of… Read More »
Atlas Obscura How do I describe this site? In a word: fascinating. It’s a site that defies description because …we’ll because I can’t describe it. And if I can’t describe it then it can’t be described. There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. I really can’t do it and I spent over an hour on this… Read More »
Time. Timers. Not enough time. Too much time on your hands. Time is running out. Time. Time. Time. Tick. Tick. Tick. Time flows like a river and the river of time only flows in one direction. Of course, physics says there is nothing to prevent us from going back in time. I say there is: We don’t know… Read More »