Q. What are some of the stranger foods that people have used to give them speed and power on race day? We’ll give a nod to a food celebrating its national day today…. . A. Let’s lift our olive leaf crowns to cheesecake. Cheesecakes were on the menu for athletes

Q. It’s one thing to gawp at the stunning beauty of some real-life show sets: the meringue-crowned mountain peaks, the ice-rimmed fjords, the stubborn ruins, the beckoning blue of a dead-calm sea. Which shows are inspiring us to actually heave off the couch and start dreaming up travel plans? .

Q. What are your pet peeves? That is the little, niggling things that bother you far more than they do others?  What are some common peeves? . A. In 2025, Talker Research surveyed 2,000 adults about the little aggravations that send them right around the edge. Survey said… Things that

Q. In his 1653 Complete Herbal, botanist Nicholas Culpeper wrote: ‘the decoction of the thistle in wine being drank, expels superfluous melancholy out of the body, and makes a man as merry as a cricket.’ ‘As merry as a cricket.’ That’s not something one hears much in 2026. What are