It's very unlikely that anyone else on the Cleveland-Dallas flight was infected with Ebola, but it's very likely that more health care workers at Texas Presbyterian were.

I've always liked vegetables, but learning to like fruit was a challenge. My husband and I found the solution — it wasn't that we didn't like the taste of fruit. We just rarely had the appetite for gigantic fruits, and weren't always on the same page to share one. But we lived near a supermarket that sold bulk…

I don't think that Ebola is likely to take off here, but I'd have been more surprised if none of the first patient's contacts got it. Physicians and nurses have always been at extremely high risk, because caregivers get exposed to the sickest, most contagious patients. The patient-to-nurse transmission that happened…

I actually love sriracha on just about any kind of cuisine. To me, the taste is pretty much neutral, but then again I grew up eating huge amounts of garlic. It bugs me when people add a few puffs of sriracha powder and a half-pound of sugar to potato chips and call them "sriracha-flavored", but I've long learned to…

I've neither produced not consumed human milk (bottle-fed child of the 1950s who grew up to be childfree by choice), but I've never understood why people have such a visceral gross-out reaction to it. I'm sure there are sanitary issues if it's shared without being pasteurized, but that's also true of non-human dairy…

I feel really terrible for Mr. Duncan and his family. My guess is that he concealed his Ebola exposure status out of denial. He got exposed while trying to help his neighbors. He was going to reconnect with his old girl friend and his son, he'd probably spent most of his savings on a plane ticket, he wasn't ill on the…

One possible bright spot: Computers and the internet have been pervasive in the workplace for several decades, so most people now in their fifties and early sixties have computer experience as well as some awareness of online fraud. I think it's going to become much more difficult to pull these scams on the…

Glad ol' John is still around, because cicada season is just about over now!

Best wishes, Dodai!

From the color of the antennae, position of the "landing gear", and shape of the face, it looks like a male European paper wasp. If so, he's all buzz and no sting; males lack the necessary equipment.

I think it's pretty much gone. I'm American and lived for a few years in Ontario; at the time I moved back to the States, all the Zellers in our area were being closed or converted to other chains. I actually used to like Zellers a lot; it was the go-to place for things like household supplies. Also, there was one…

See, this is what happens when you get rid of Zellers.

Incidentally, if you're an adult struggling with repeated bouts of depression and anxiety, and you feel that it might affect your career or relationships, it might be worth getting assessed for ADHD. An excellent family physician picked up on mine because of my long history of mild depression and much less mild…

It is. And the sad part is that neither one of us has ever seriously sought a tenure-track faculty job. (I halfheartedly went on that job market just in time for the economy to crash, which quickly forced me to realize that I really, really didn't want to be a professor.) Our backgrounds might be okay in industry…

Any chance that this thread could be regularly revisited? There are a lot of people in this position right now.

My favorite thing to make with cashews is creamy pasta sauce. (Mr. Sububi is mildly allergic to some dairy products, and I'm somewhat lactose-intolerant with a slight tendency towards high cholesterol, so we try not to consume huge amounts of cream or cheese.) You have to start with whole raw cashews. Soak a cup of…

On a related topic: Anyone know whether it's true that the number of prescription-painkiller ODs went down in Colorado after the state first legalized medical cannabis? I saw that go by in the news but didn't track down the sources. It makes some intuitive sense if cannabis helps people with chronic pain before they…

I can understand the confusion, because about six or seven years ago I woke up in the middle of the night dizzy, nauseated, and sweating. My husband was about to take me to the ER when I threw up and instantly felt better. Long story shortened: Food poisoning. Nothing like that has ever happened to me again, but I can…

No one ever believes me, but for me, the airline with the most comfortable coach seats has always been Delta. They're not always pretty, but they fit my frame perfectly.

I wonder how many of those "leaked nudes" resulted from photoshopping celebrity headshots onto pictures of naked women.