If you were to describe yourself as … “painfully shy,” probably the last job you’d want is going on national TV every night, telling jokes and interviewing people you don’t know. But such is the case for David Letterman. Other famous people, brilliant on stage...
When I was a kid… one of my favorite rides at Disneyland (other than the Matterhorn) was Monsanto’s Adventures Thru Inner Space. In it, you boarded a vehicle which pretended to gradually shrink you down to the size of molecules. I’m not the only one who...
“Doctor, my immune system is so weak… I’ve caught every cold and flu this year. I’ve been sick constantly for three months and I can’t get well. Can you work up my immunity? Is there anything I can take to protect me against all these infections?” Every winter,...
To understand vitamin D, we must … first figure out what a vitamin is, and that will take us to the secret la-BOR-atory of mad scientist, Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1912 screamed, “Igor, I’ve found it!” when he realized why people who ate brown...
I’m a huge fan of marijuana and here’s why… Jokes about smoking pot are really funny. Movies with stoners in them are even funnier. Sure, you wouldn’t want your daughter to date one, but when a slow-moving, laconic, glassy-eyed, long-haired, character pops up on...