latest round up

Today I learned that the news doesn't care if it tells the truth and could fire you as a newsperson if you wanted to not lie.

Yesterday I learned that if you decide to feed ants cornmeal in the hopes that they will leave your kitchen alone, they mine it. They don't have support timbers and line things with concrete like smugglers crossing the border, but they make little holes they can actually disappear into. And also in yesterday's news, if you work out really, really, really hard for five minutes, you can make your muscle damage look like you had worked out for something like four hours. Whatever kind of muscle damage is apparently how you measure endurance, so extreme interval training could be just as good for endurance training as going out for hours. I don't see the couch potato crowd leaping off the sofa for five minutes, plus warm-up and cool down and stuff like that, and working to the point of pain three times a week, but it might help those of us who like to exercise but get stuck in the house sometimes.

And since I haven't covered anything death-worthy lately, here's an article about how long various pesticides can linger in your house, thus killing you, your kids, and your pets. Also, the crying Native American guy on those '80s littering PSAs was Sicilian.