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Here’s a hot travel tip of the medicinal kind for you: go run to your local drug store, pick up a bag of zinc lozenges and pack it away in your travel kit. Make this a priority item so you don’t forget! Although zinc lozenges have no expiration date, I recommend swapping in [...]

The few times I had to use proper Romanian in emails, a language I’m fluent in, I used Windows with a Ro keyboard layout to type its 5 extra glyphs (ăâîşţ). I’ve grown somewhat accustomed to using keys like [, ], ;, ‘ for input, and its strange flip of letters YZ. I [...]

Surfing the net, I ran into a site selling relatively cheap prescription eyeglasses (free plug: Zenni Optical, frames as cheap as $8.95, I got the 3148 Rimless Flexible (Memory) Titanium for about $50 with all options). I was able to locate my 2 year old prescription, which I know is still good because I see [...]

Most of you have seen the classic “left-right conflict” brain teaser:

When I first saw it, I remembered reading an article about how people with certain medical conditions, such as those susceptible to epileptic seizures, would sometimes have their corpus callosum, the fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain, severed as a [...]