Are Birds and Bees the Best Sexual Examples for Teaching Kids?
I learned what sex was from an eighth grader on the school bus (I was in seventh grade). When he described it to me, I simply didn’t believe him. I was sure that sex didn’t involve any physical contact. That just didn’t make sense. Every day, thousands of children are subjected to the infamous “birds and the [...]
Live More Now or Live Longer Later?
I had this debate the other day, and I want your thoughts. If you could take a pill that would let you get the equivalent of 8 hours of sleep a night even though you actually sleep only 4 hours, but each pill would reduce the overall length of your life by 4 hours, would [...]
JoshVision: Question of the Day
QOD: We were all taught by GI Joe that “knowing is half the battle.” What are the other parts of the battle? Answer: This is a tricky question because as we can see in the chart below, despite what we’ve been taught, Knowing isn’t technically 50% of The Battle. In fact, it’s barely a third. But how [...]
From the Mailbag: JoshVision: Question of the Day
Today I was going to try to field one of NQL’s many questions, but I realized that it was better answered by the answerer of all questions, JoshVision. Thus: QOD: Why is a bar called a “bar”? Answer: The term “bar” originated in the Prohibition era, a sad time in our history when it was illegal [...]
JoshVision: Question of the Day
QOD: One of the most common literary and cinematic devices is the “fish out of water,” the guy who leaves the only place he knows well and ventures into a land or a situation where he’s in over his head. The device I understand. The expression, not so much. If you take a fish out [...]
JoshVision: Question of the Day
QOD: When people speak of a better place or a better situation than the one they’re in, they often refer to “the land of milk and honey.” My question, or questions: Is there an actual land of milk and honey? Where is it? Why don’t people just move there? Also, why milk and honey? Why [...]
JoshVision: Question of the Day
QOD: Who would you rather encounter in a dark alley: A man with a gun, or a man with a bow and arrow? A: I take each and every QOD extremely seriously and thus wanted to conduct all of the necessary research on this particular one, so last night I headed downtown to get my [...]
JoshVision: Question of the Day
QOD: At weddings, the groom slips his hands up the brideʼs dress and pulls out the garter. So in turn, why doesnʼt the bride extract the bouquet from the groomʼs pants? A: While it’s not exactly a tit for tat (pardon the pun) arrangement to have the bride retrieving her bouquet from the trousers of [...]
Questions of the Day: Part Three
Question: Why can’t I have my cake and eat it too? On the literal level, it makes sense that I could both possess and consume cake. Answer: If you eat your cake, it is no longer there. It’s gone, dissolved in the digestive juices of your stomach. While it is still with you for a [...]
Questions of the Day: Part Two
(This is a continuation of last week’s Monday post, found here.) Question: Why did the political parties choose such smelly, dirty animals to represent their parties? An elephant and a donkey? What’s up with that? Answer: I guess these smelly, dirty animals are the ones that the parties identify with most. Have you ever seen [...]
Questions of the Day: Part One
My friend Josh and I had a unique way of staying in touch with each other during our sophomore year of college. Every day, one of us would send the other a hypothetical question, and the other person would answer it and include a new question at the end of the e-mail. We called these [...]
