The Super Bowl seems to be the best time to make STUPID bets on STUPID things.  Here are some of the bizarre "prop bets" you can make this year . . . along with the probability that they'll actually happen.   1.  Travis Kelce proposes to Taylor Swift after the game:  16.7% 2.  A coach or player will cry during the national anthem:  81.1%  (There's always at least one.) 3.  A quarterback catches a pass:  5.9%  (This one should be higher this year.  They don't call it the Philly Special for nothing.) 4.  The color of the Gatorade poured on the winning coach:  [...]

Some parents think that we coddle kids too much, and they're becoming too soft.  And in the Netherlands, they're trying to correct this by making playgrounds LESS SAFE.  Sort of.   They're NOT talking about leaving rusted-out slides . . . putting a pit of spikes below the monkey bars . . . or adding more parking for windowless vans.  (???)   A new policy proposal in the Netherlands would increase kids' access to open outdoor play areas to "climb, play with water and fire, sword-fight with sticks, build with hammers, rope, or knives, and wrestle and fall."   It's not [...]

Netflix is rebooting "Little House on the Prairie".  The original series told the KIND OF true story of the Ingalls family, who lived on a farm in Minnesota in the late 1800s.   It was loosely based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and it ran from 1974 to 1983.   A Netflix exec says the new version will be, quote, "part hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West."   There's no word yet on casting or a start date.   The original series streams on Peacock, where people watched more than [...]

Two Sundays from now, Jason Kelce is putting the CITY of Brotherly Love over ACTUAL brotherly love.  Because he's rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl over his brother Travis and the Chiefs.   At least that's how he was feeling about it a year ago.  During a March 2024 edition of the "New Heights" podcast, the idea of a Chiefs / Eagles Super Bowl came up.   And Jason said, quote, "I will root for the Eagles of course because I will always be an Eagle first and foremost."   After Travis called B.S., Jason said, quote, "I'll also root for [...]

A recent study found even one-minute bursts of activity can get your heart rate up enough to help you live longer.  Here are eight everyday things we don't think of as exercise, but they COUNT as exercise.     1.  Taking the stairs.  It's a classic one. 2.  Gardening.  Or any activity that's physical. 3.  Carrying your shopping bags in.  Or even better, walking to the store. 4.  Running to catch a train or a bus.  (Or, be original and run ON the bus.) 5.  General cleaning.  Just picking stuff up around the house if you do it quick. 6.  Doing [...]