Your fingernails are handy tools that can be useful for scratching an itch or picking up food. But they can also be important indicators of our health. Paying close attention to the shape, texture, and color of your fingernails can mean the difference between catching a disease early and waiting…
What Does It Really Mean When Your Toes Itch?
What does it mean when you have itchy toes? Sure, we’ve all heard the whole “itchy feet” idiom that means you want to go traveling, or at least move on from some kind of situation in your life. Does an itchy toe count for this, or do toes have a…
What It Really Means When You Dream About Rainbows
If you recently dreamed about rainbows, you might just be wondering about the symbolic meaning behind it. In a dreamscape, rainbows come in all forms: a multicolored arch, a double rainbow, a glowing white path, or even a muted gray one. Moreover, many people are known to dream about rainbow-tinged…
Here’s What It Really Means When You See A Hawk
Some religions believe that seeing certain animals can represent an upcoming joyous event, or perhaps heed a specific warning, but you don’t have to be religious to understand spiritual symbolism. Many people believe that they have a spirit animal, and we aren’t talking about the trending hashtag on Instagram. Mindbodygreen offers some tips…
Is this really the end of our Covid nightmare?
Is this really the end of our Covid nightmare? Some scientists fear a third wave next winter, while others believe things are even better than Boris admits Deeply polarised views recently have led to academic equivalent of a stand-off Some say we’ll learn to live with the virus and accept a…
What You Should Really Know About Natural Toothpaste
Fluoride has had a tough few years in the press. With various studies showing health concerns and people deciding to remove products that contain the chemical, natural toothpaste options have popped up in most drug stores. As many people are opting for organic, chemical-free self-care products and foods, natural toothpaste…
4 Queer Women Share What It Was Really Like Trying To Have A Baby
When Amanda Roth first walked into a fertility clinic in 2011, her situation wasn’t exactly like that of the many other patients in the waiting room. She hadn’t been trying to conceive with a male partner for some time; as someone with a female partner, she simply didn’t have sperm…
The coronavirus didn’t really start at that Wuhan ‘wet market’
The first case of SARS-CoV-2 didn’t emerge from a Wuhan wet market, according to experts at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Instead, the live animal market may have been the site of a superspreader event, where one person spread the virus to many other people, one US-based expert told…
How often do you really need to clean your face mask?
If you’re one of the many people wearing a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic, you may have wondered just how you’re supposed to keep them clean. Not only are face masks exposed to germs every time you leave your home, but they’re also in contact with your own face….
What it really means when you dream about tests
Ugh, the dreaded test dream. It’s always the same — you realize that you have to take a test, and not just a pop quiz, but some kind of huge make-it-or-break-it final exam. Your grade, your diploma, your entire future hinges on this test, and yet… there’s a problem. Not…
Are Mental Health Days For Kids Really OK?
“But I don’t want to go to school today!” It’s a refrain as common to parents’ ears as “I don’t want to take a bath!” and “But I don’t wanna go!” Whining aside, kids have been known to employ even more conniving methods to try to get out of school,…