Yawning gets a bad rap. Many people view a yawn as an unconscious display of boredom, or exhaustion, or both. As such, many of us try to hide or even override our yawns, even when our bodies attempt to force us into them.
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As things in Syria continue to get more complicated and Trump prepares to scrap American commitment to Iranian denuclearization, it’s worth noting that land battles have already begun between the world’s great superpowers. We’re already fighting soldiers from Iran and Russia, face to face, on the ground.
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A little over two weeks ago, Rick Perry announced that the United States’ Department of Energy would conduct a major investigation into the strength of the national power grid. …
Donald Trump just received one of those unhappy reminders this week that life is not a reality television show. While the Commander in Chief was busy whining about the Clintons again on Twitter, several things happened in the real world that look as though they’re going to require a presidential…
I went for a run yesterday near the beach in New Jersey, wearing only a pair of shorts and a short-sleeved shirt. It was gorgeous outside, nearly 70 degrees. The trees were blooming, flies buzzed, birds and squirrels frantically searched for food in the grass. It was downright balmy out…
On the 26 of October, 1775, British Parliament convened to discuss what they were beginning to call, “the American problem.”
Thousands of the King’s best troops were pent up in Boston, under siege. Ships ferrying men back across the Atlantic had recently returned to England with a cargo of more…
If there’s a surviving document from the Revolution that most epitomizes the raw emotion Americans felt towards their friends and family in England (or their Tory countrymen, for that matter), it’s a letter that Ben Franklin penned to his friend, the royal printer William Strahan, in 1775.
Franklin, of course…
Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain on July 2, 1776, two days before it announced the final version of the Declaration to the world. On July 3rd, Massachusetts Congressman John Adams wrote to his wife to tell her about the important news:
Yesterday the greatest Question was…
