If you're only listening to us to drown out the sound of traffic, you're welcome.  We might be saving your life right now . . . A new study found too much traffic noise can literally KILL you.  (!!!)  Probably not today though.  It's a more gradual process. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania worked with experts in Europe to see how the sound of traffic affects our health.  And it's not good. They say case closed, the sound of horns and engines causes significant stress.  Which leads to heart disease, strokes, and other issues long term. Commuting isn't the only time [...]

 Chances are, you've had STICKER SHOCK over a tax bill at some point, or maybe it's an annual surprise.  But no one has had it THIS bad. A man in Pennsylvania named Barry Tangert got two pieces of tax information in the mail last week: First, there was a refund check from the federal government for $900.  The second one was a tax bill . . . saying that he owed the state $34 BILLION.  That's billion with a B.  To be exact, he owed $34,576,826,561.47. Barry says he had a feeling there MIGHT have been a "blunder" . . . [...]

If you had a bottle of Perrier recently, and you thought, "This tastes like crap."  Well, there may have been a reason for that. Perrier was ordered to destroy two million bottles of water after FECAL BACTERIA was discovered in one of its wells in southern France.  They'd been using the well since 1903 . . . over a HUNDRED years. So is YOUR Perrier POO-FREE?  They say YES.  It was just a "precaution" . . . and "all bottles on the market can be consumed in complete safety." Perrier's parent company, Nestlé, hasn't gone into specifics about the contamination, but [...]

You probably didn't know this, but today is Get Organized Day!  If you need more motivation than that, here are four ways clutter can affect your health . . . 1.  It affects your sleep.  Studies have found that found the quality of your sleep is worse when your bedroom is a mess. 2.  It makes your allergies worse.  If your place is unorganized and cluttered, then you're probably not dusting regularly.  And a lot of people who think they're allergic to pollen actually just need to clean and dust more. 3.  It makes it harder to focus.  When there's too [...]