You may be like most folks. I’m guessing you give very little thought to the stairs you go up and down on a regular basis.

We are living in a moment that prizes ease above almost everything else. We automate, outsource, hit the drive-through, and look for faster, cheaper ways to produce something that looks like the real ...

As I pared my list of the best games I covered this year, one question kept pinging through my brain. What makes a good game? It’s seemingly simple, yet there’s no universal answer. Is it a powerful ...

A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dementia. Over the past several ...

The University of Michigan has always aspired to be the kind of first-rate academic institution in which football team members could take pride. After all, who wouldn’t want winners of the Heisman ...

It’s been a little more than a week since the tragic shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers by an Afghan refugee in Washington D.C., and many Americans are pretty far down the road in ...

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This is about a medical concern I had last summer. I’m fine, but this is my only chance to write funny stuff about a lung biopsy. I hope. When I arrived at the hospital, I met Jill, the RN, and ...

For avid trout anglers, telling the difference between a rainbow trout and a brown trout is fairly easy. The rainbow trout’s pink lateral line, and the brown trout’s complete lack of any pink ...