Live while you are alive
Is that a tall, dark, and handsome man standing over there? Or a tall, dark and handsome man? Both uses of the comma are correct, but the British Department for Education apparently doesn’t realise it and wrongly penalises children in exams for using the “Oxford comma”. Any child writing “tall, dark, and handsome” is thus …
We’re being duped into thinking smart devices are making our lives better. Visit any crowdfunding site and you’ll see campaigns for every imaginable smartphone-connected gizmo under the sun, each promising relief from a “harrowing first-world problem.” There’s the “smart” propane scale that lets you monitor the fuel level in your backyard grill, so that—horror of …
If you want to live to be 100, here are a few things you might need to do: keep slim, avoid smoking and be sure to own your own home before you turn 50. Swedish researchers tracked 855 men, born in 1913, to try to work out the links between lifestyle and longevity. Of their …
The big news from Washington DC yesterday was the report that 17-year-old Malia Obama is taking a gap year before going to Harvard university. Gap years are quite normal for most young people in the UK, but are still relatively rare in America, where any delay in getting through further education and earning money is …
Epicurus was a modest eater and drinker, by all accounts, not at all the glutton he was painted by early christians with dubious agendas. Like his contempories he ate a Mediterranean diet. According to the European Heart Journal, commenting on a study of 15,000 people worldwide, this diet is really good for you. When people …
