In their own way, classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma and feminist hip-hop innovator Yo-Yo make inspiring, gut-grabbing music. That's a lot more than can be said for yo-yo dieting! Although it grabs your guts and stirs up the trillions of bacteria living there, it's more likely to make heart-stopping deposits of fat around your waistline, so you repeatedly...
In the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, it was unseasonably warm, and repeated losses by the usually gold-medal-draped Norwegian cross-country ski team prompted Norwegian newspapers to rant about smoerebom - loosely translated, it means "waxing failure"! Seems if you don't "grease the skids" just right for snow conditions (there are...
The Roman scholar Pliny wrote in "Natural History": "Contact with the monthly flux of women turns new wine sour, makes crops wither, kills grafts, dries seeds in gardens, causes the fruit of trees to fall off, dims the bright surface of mirrors"... and it goes on and on. But while we're able to dismiss such unscientific...