Most of us view keeping up a great lawn as a three-step process: you water, you fertilize and you apply pesticide. But a federally-funded study into America’s growing number of residential showpieces suggests that peer pressure also keeps our mowers mowing. According to the newly released $2 million National Science […]
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Finding a basketball game to watch in the Norfolk, Va., area is a slam dunk. And finding a place to play basketball there is an alley-oop. Figures from the Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit that promotes parks and other public spaces, indicate Norfolk lays up 406 public basketball hoops […]
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Since becoming a national holiday during the Civil War, Thanksgiving can accurately be called one of the first authentically American holidays. Initially celebrated as a communal harvest, the holiday has evolved enormously over the centuries; it’s been observed. We’ve come pretty far from a simple harvest celebration. And let’s face […]
Welp, it’s that time of year again. It’s too cold to spend an entire Sunday afternoon sprawled out on a sandy beach. That one family member is bugging you about getting hitched. And, for reasons that we can’t quite explain, the living room couch is a lot lonelier than it […]
Summer vacation is a tradition honored just about everywhere in the world, and most readers will agree that we’re all the better for it. Even the most diligent among us understand that the value of taking our eyes off the books for a couple of months, which gives us time […]
Human beings have kept the company of animals since the dawn of civilization. After transitioning away from the primitive hunter-gatherer lifestyle, humans have employed beasts of burden to help them with just about everything: tilling fields for crops, laboring heavy cargo, and even assisting with the hunting of other animals. […]
The “anti-vax” movement, also known as vaccine hesitancy, has captivated, frustrated, and more often than not confused the general populace for a while now – and this isn’t new. Vaccine hesitancy is just as old as the concept of vaccines itself. From the mid 18th to 19th centuries, various groups […]
When Americans are hunting for a home, they give a lot of thought to the size of the lot. After all, a bigger lot means more space for a backyard patio or a kids’ playscape — and more lawn to mow. “Many people like the idea of living in a […]