I was leading a group of travelers in Slovakia last week and guest Yvonne from Colorado raved about this wraparound silk eye mask for both air travel and too-bright lodging. She likes how it stays in ...

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Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart St. Martin’s Press 2016, 272 pages, 7.8 x 9.6 x 0.8 inches ...

When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work every day. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up. I had ...

The civilized way to floss. A tiny, easily replaceable harp on the end of a stick. More hygienic (no fingers in your mouth), more effective at flossing the hard parts, more comfortable, easier to use.

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Delta sent my Prague-bound suitcase full of ski clothing to Pittsburg instead on this trip and it took partner KLM 2.5 days to get it back in my hands, despite the bar code still being attached.

Oven pull – These are wood or silicone sticks with two notches. You grab your oven rack with it to get it in and out of the oven while putting some distance between yourself and a very hot metal box, ...

I’ve been to many tiki bars, but Smuggler’s Cove stands out. In the heart of San Francisco, Smuggler’s Cove is an oasis. From the outside it looks like a weird office building with blacked out windows ...

Intelligence is not elemental. Neither is artificial intelligence. Both are complex compounds composed of more primitive cognitive elements, some of which we are only now discovering. We don’t yet ...

Cornell psychologist Thomas Gilovich examines the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that lead us to believe things that simply aren’t true — revealing that our false beliefs aren’t ...