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- STARGAZER DENNIS MAMMANA
Summertime stars can be friends for life
Sultry summer nights were common during my childhood in eastern Pennsylvania, and you could usually find me lying on the cool grass, gazing into a star-filled sky.
- Eureka!
Apparently even the busy bee can have an off-day, a time when it's not, well, feeling the buzz. When that happens, researchers say, sick bees are a lot like sick people. They sort of bumble about.
- Slowing geyser eruptions in Yellowstone linked to climate
Old Faithful may not be so faithful anymore. A long-term study of Yellowstone National Park's iconic geysers suggests that dry spells caused by climate change are slowing – and may even stop – the geysers' clockwork-regular eruptions.
- Poor settlers drawn to protected wilderness areas
The execution-style killing last year of a gorilla family in the Democratic Republic of Congo may portend future conflicts as humans encroach on national parks in developing countries, according to authors of a new study.
- Questions answered
It seems that many famous artists, writers, etc., have suffered from bouts of madness. Is there a relationship between creativity and mental illness, or does it just seem that way because odd or tragic characters are more likely to be remembered?
- Consult a real comedian if you become irritated or displeased
At this point, the networks and cable channels let fly more than 150 unscripted series a year. And while a few of them try to play it straight – the cautionary diaperings of “The Baby Borrowers,” the tear-duct seizures on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” – most reality shows do like to tug on our pigtails.
- NIELSENS
All-Star Game gives Fox the win
The last baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium and the most-watched midsummer classic since 2002 – at least through the first nine innings – helped Fox to a TV ratings victory.
- DEAR ABBY
He has little contact with his mom and is happy; what's the big deal?
My wife thinks I have a problem because I do not have a close relationship with my mother. We go for weeks without talking or seeing each other, and it doesn't bother me. Since I was about 13, my parents were hardly ever around. My mom was a workaholic, and my dad was an alcoholic, so I became totally self-sufficient.
- TELL ME ABOUT IT CAROLYN HAX
Mom, spouse teammates in criticism
I'm about to turn 30. I see a doctor regularly, and I am, in her words, “in excellent health” – cholesterol, heart, blood pressure, yadda yadda.
- HINTS FROM HELOISE
Mixing up a batch of bath salts
I cannot find my recipe for bath salts. Can you please reprint it for me?
- Horoscope
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