Month: April 2018

A flight to New Orleans had a little trouble landing in a storm. There was a TV reporter on the flight, so it’s news. (Source: WWL-TV/New Orleans)

Dire wind warnings gave me a lot of concern for my flight from Vegas Thursday. I need not have worried. But I did.

A new study suggests that eating pasta three times a week might not make you fat after all. In fact, it COULD help you lose weight. Maybe. (Source: Science Daily)

You know how Waze and other navigation apps send you to side streets? And how sometimes they send you into trouble? Here’s an epic case where drivers are encountering a hazard they wouldn’t have seen without an app. (Source: Los Angeles Times)

When studies show vitamin supplements don’t work, it doesn’t deter a lot of people, especially older folks, from sticking with them. Maybe they’re in better-safe-than-sorry mode… or just stubborn. (Source: New York Times)

When you’re unhappy at a restaurant or with any service, what’s the first thing you should do? Used to be talking to the manager, but now it’s nasty reviews online, and “bloodthirsty for revenge” comes to mind. (Source: Boston Globe)

There’s a word for when you pay attention to your phone instead of the person in front of you. But it’s a stupid word. (Source: WCBS-TV/New York)

A guy’s been making a folded paper chain out of tourist brochures since 1979, and it’s now 23 miles long. No, I don’t know what the point of that is, either. (Source: Raleigh News and Observer)

On child prodigies, high expectations, and what happens when all of that slams into reality. (Source: CNN; New York Times)

A web survey picked the best places in the world to propose. None involve Jumbotrons. (Source: Global News)