Sunday Newscape Magazine

I must have led a very sheltered - or at least a very clean - existence before I got married, because I somehow managed to get through almost three decades of life without knowing about the five-second rule. You know, the rule that says it’s OK to eat food dropped on the kitchen floor as long as you pick it up within five seconds. Turns out that germs are apparently polite enough to count to five before they attach themselves to goodies. Who knew?

I, like many of you, am a true believer in the notion that everything happens for a reason. Unfortunately, this was not always the case, but I am sure glad I’ve changed.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus

This riddle keeps our minds wrapped in a never-ending search for truth. You can't have an egg without first having a chicken...but then, where did the chicken come from? It's a conundrum that might also apply to a more elemental issue: who are we and what are we doing?

When a woman is in love with a man, she will often call him on the phone several times a day. On a whim, just to satisfy an impulse, she will call him even if there is nothing important to discuss. Generally speaking women are emotionally driven creatures and men are ego driven creatures.   Many women can not prevent themselves from taking action when they feel an emotional urge and that is why women so many things that women do don’t make any sense to men.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.