Shoveling snow isn’t for everyone. For those of a certain age or health status, experts say it might be best to leave it for someone else this winter.
Author: Jay Cannon, USA TODAY
The anatomy of a hangover: Here’s why your head hurts right now
Your head hurts. Your mouth is dry. Maybe you’re nauseated. Here’s what goes into that New Year’s Day hangover, and what experts say to do about it.
Today’s date is rare: It reads the same way forward, backward and upside down
Today’s date, written out numerically as 12/02/2021, is a rare eight-digit palindrome, which occurs just 12 times in the 21st century.
Working on Christmas? Employees who work through holidays often suffer burnout
If you’re working on a holiday when you’d rather be celebrating, that could be a breach of a “psychological contract,” one expert said.
Trash can from South Carolina washes ashore in Ireland, roughly 3,500 miles away
“That’s an amazing voyage for a trash barrel,” read post by Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. “Though we’d prefer that it stayed put on our beach.”
Researchers say they finally know why slabs of glass litter this desert: An ancient, exploding comet
Glass slabs cover parts of the the Atacama Desert in Chile. A new study says they’re the result of a comet explosion some 12,000 years ago.
They pulled 63,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but that’s just the start
A half-mile long trash-trapping system named “Jenny” hauled in more than 63,000 pounds of waste from the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Proposed China law would punish parents for their kids’ bad behavior
A draft bill in China would allow for parents to be punished for their children’s criminal or bad behavior.
Confused self-driving cars are flooding a normally quiet dead-end street in San Francisco
A quiet dead end in San Francisco is seeing an influx of self-driving visitors. One resident said they’re showing up “literally every five minutes.”
Texas 3-year-old found safe in wooded area after going missing for three days
Christopher Ramirez was found after a civilian called in a tip to authorities, bringing a swift resolution to a search that had little facts.