Big Questions Answered, How and Why

On the final day of the typical office workweek, many employers give their workers the opportunity to dress down and loosen the rules on the standard dress code.

Not all cats love it.

It's a marvel of poop-related engineering.

Today, people around the globe will feel uneasy about getting out of bed, leaving their homes, or going about their normal daily routines, all because of a superstition.

It doesn't always mean you're anxious.

Before the 20th century, concert musicians might tune their instruments to wildly different pitches, depending on where they were playing.

One technological breakthrough left the common pencil in the dust.

Most of us just know to light the fuse and stand back.

There's a lot going on under the felt.

It may rankle purists, but American English isn’t the culprit.

Everything you know is a lie.

At the end of a long day, the last thing you want to do is wait 30 minutes to pour a fresh glass of wine.

You can thank two Californian cardiologists from the 1950s.

Here's what the "play bow" really means.

And why do they have to be so loud?

According to the U.S. Flag Code, you shouldn’t let the flag touch the ground or hang it upside-down. While there’s no express prohibition about reversing the image, it’s probably a safe bet you shouldn’t do that, either.