Tag: Healthy living

What happens when your kids start sorting their Halloween candy, and it turns into something that looks like a Paul Klee painting? This year, our post-trick-or-treat candy sort turned unexpectedly artistic.

At the eye doctor: the waiting room chairs have an optical illusion pattern. Way to mess with your vision before the dilation kicks in.

Pill organizer wish list: 1. Jumbo-sized compartments for Halloween Milky Ways. 2. Labels in random languages for maximum chaos. 3. One shaped like Optimus Prime, because aging should feel heroic.

Your phone can help you find mindfulness. Film two minutes of life unfolding and reconnect with the world around you.

The next time you drink a Pepsi, you are actually consuming something called “Digestion Soda.” You may have seen an article going around saying: “Pepsi fans just realizing drink’s original name that ‘sounds like a rock album'”. I’ll save you…

It's Monkey Day! A day born from a simple act of fun on a friend's calendar. Let's spread joy and a little bit of harmless monkeying around!

Halloween candy is a fascinating blend of economic strategy, psychological triggers like anticipation, immediate pleasure, and fear of missing out, and social dynamics of neighborly camaraderie and cultural celebration.

The latest microseason, "Crickets Chirp Around the Door," introduces us to a rockstar cricket who's taking the insect world by storm. Join the party in your garden and groove to the chirpy beats! 🎶🕺 #FunnyNature #RockstarCricket

Join us as our Ewok companion immerses in the tranquility of Japan's 72 microseasons. From chrysanthemums in bloom to the first frost, every moment is a pixelated masterpiece.

If you give Chat GPT fifty quotes about aging, which will it pick as its favorite?

Five reasons to adopt this simple lifetime habit of sitting on a newly encountered bench.

Ripping open a Cutie nylon bag makes you feel good. Not just for the nutritional punch of an orange, but also the satisfaction of ripping open a bag with your bare hands.

A Mayo Clinic article said that you shouldn’t have over 400 mg of caffeine a day. The FDA says if drink more than 400 mg, you can get: insomnia, jitters, anxiousness, fast heart rate, upset stomach, nausea, headache, a feeling…

When eating cookies or chocolate, do you have just one or two pieces, or do you dive into the bag? I’m a bag diver. If there’s a bag of chocolate in the house, it will be gone very soon. Especially…

When a parking lot has circles painted on the surface, how can you not do donuts on them? Mysterious circles in parking lot On birthday I went on a little bike ride. Along the way home is a YMCA with…

How do you defeat the Asian Murder Hornet? Beekeepers in Asia use tennis rackets to defeat the Murder Hornet. Scientific American takes a look at how Asia handles this monstrous hornet: Beekeepers can help by installing entrance traps over the…

Do you use a knife to spread the jelly on your sandwich? The jelly slides off the knife. The jelly in your jar is left with deep trenches. The serrated blade from the knife makes an awful texture sound when…

There’s a lot of talk about whether the media is overhyping coronavirus (COVID-19). I was wondering how many people I know will be infected and possibly die from COVID-19, so I did the math. People who will die from COVID-19…

Is it possible to be both cute AND unappetizing? Peeps accomplished that with their Gingerbread Men Peeps. They are quite possibly the most dramatic possible combination of cute and unappetizing. So cute, but so unappetizing! The Daily Meal has a…

Cereal, cereal, cereal. The standard quick meal not only for breakfast, but for any time of day! National Cereal Day was last week. Yeah, I’ve been too busy eating cereal throughout the day to really remember about this esteemed national…

A message I sent to a vending machine company: We have a vending machine on the 3rd floor of the Tribune Tower in Chicago (435 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611). Almost every day I get a Pay Day bar.…

Is there a health website where I can enter all my cholesterol levels? Then the website would give me recommendations based on the various levels of HDL, LDL, and triglycerides. Actually, it would be super great if this website would…

It’s been a while since I’ve submitted a word definition to Urban Dictionary. I’m digging way back to a word I learned as a child, skelbow. Ten years ago, I was shocked to find out that nobody else has heard…

Laying on my desk this morning were a stack of coins and a collection of chocolate. Why would both of these be on my desk? I run a the Maldre Post Office at my desk on the 14th floor of…

General Mills’ new policy: if you engage with us online, you can never sue the company. The Consumerist reports: In new language recently added to General Mills’ website, consumers who interact with the company online will be agreeing to give…

We all know the Moon is made of cheese. Even the Chinese know because they are going to the Moon to bring back its delicious cheese. The taste is so out of this world! Why wait for the Chinese to…

I cannot think today. In fact, I just tweeted this: Wow. I cannot think today. I wonder if this is how must humans live. — Matt's Health (@mattshealth) October 9, 2013 The very fact that I misspelled “most” reinforces the…

Let’s cut down the commuter rage on escalators. If you are going to stand, then move over to the right and stand. Kindly allow those who wish to walk up the escalators to have the space on the left side.…

I know people on other sub-zero-temperature planets who would love to have 28 degrees. When i tell them it’s 28 degrees, they say, “snaaaaap. it’s warm there!” Which planets? Ones in our galaxy. I talk with the peeps over in…

All the weather we get comes from whatever Chicago’s Mother Nature is making for dinner. On hot days, she forgot to turn the oven off. In winter, she eats only ice cream for dinner. Sometimes she spills when rinsing the…

A vegetarian unknowingly eats an Angus burger because an order gets flipped at the table. Read Leigh Hanlon tell his humorous story, Amtrak made me love veggie burgers or you can even listen to him tell the story. It’s under…