Inkfish

Itching is contagious, and not only when one party has the chicken pox. The mere sight of a stranger scratching can be enough to trigger ...

Moving from a rural home into the city brings challenges like figuring out trains, maneuvering couches up staircases, and not being eate...

Does anyone still say "full of beans"? The phrase is supposed to describe someone who's upbeat and energetic. Maybe we can...

"We are covered in an ecological wonderland," declares Rob Dunn, a man with a strange idea of a wonderland. In the wild bacte...

If subtraction makes you sweat, division gives you diarrhea, and the Pythagorean theorem inspires panic attacks, you might be afflicted w...

A version of this post first appeared on June 7, 2012. Happy Halloween! It's reasonable for a hungry predator to hesitate when i...

The Shambulance is an occasional series in which I try to find the truth about bogus or overhyped health products. Physiologist  Steven Swoa...