You know the smell I’m talking about if you’ve ever stepped over the threshold of a hundred-year-old house or even one in the sixty-year range: musty, dusty, broken in, so to speak. Before you buy that old farmhouse of your dreams, though, best to find out where all that “character” is coming from.

Now that Earth’s population has blown past seven billion, you might wonder how many more people we can fit on the planet.

An interesting read from The Atlantic about long-haul trucking and mental health. A few factoids: there are about 3.5 million truck drivers in the US about one third of them will be involved in a serious accident at some point during their driving career that’s about one million people who could suffer from PTSD truckers, …

No matter how many languages you speak, there’s somewhere in the world where no one will understand a word you say, so what’s the most international way to communicate? Pictures.

All too often, the phrase “Daddy’s little girl” takes on a negative meaning, yet it’s a relationship that begins impacting a woman’s perception of the world and her place in it from her earliest days.

Not all of us have the luxury of excessive counter space, so anywhere we can grab a few extra inches is a treat.

If you’ve been feeling the squeeze, it could be time to rethink traditional kitchen appliances, namely the stove top, thanks to IKEA’s new TILLREDA hob.

We all know there’s nothing funny about murder, yet again and again we return to movies to satisfy our lust for blood and great one-liners.

Not everyone has the benefit of learning effective presentation skills in the classroom, yet many fields require this essential skill if one wants to climb the career ladder. Even if your audience is a group of first graders on career day, audiences aren’t forgiving to the unprepared.

Nothing says “Great outdoors!” like a rash that makes you want to scratch your skin off, and even if you’ve never had a reaction to poison ivy previously, this gift is one that’s happy to start giving if you provide it the chance.

In a world full of bad ecological news, it’s refreshing to hear some tidbit of glad tidings.

If you’ve ever hunted down an IP address, particularly if it’s an address that’s wronged you in some way, you likely feel pretty computer savvy…until you discover you’ve tracked down the wrong person, possibly one whose life has been made hellish by residing at a default address through no fault of their own.

If you’re like me, you’d say: Scarlet fever. But no, a team of medical researchers actually does not believe that to be true. They studied everything from diaries to disease-records and came up with a different solution. As the CNN article notes, this is not earth-shattering news. However, generations of people have grown up fearing …