Recycle your e-waste. / Photo by blakespot via flickr. No, not that spot. We’re talking about “green spots” that are popping up all over LA to help make getting rid of e-waste easy enough. Let’s face it, we’re a gadget-crazy, disposable na

Sitting in the same home office at separate computers, Sandy Wood and Kara Kovalchik spend their days tracking down the kind of stuff that can keep you awake at 3 a.m., in a good way. Why are tennis balls fuzzy? What's the title of the "Sanford and Son\

You could describe this husband-and-wife team from Birmingham as trivia experts, but that would trivialize what they've accomplished. Sandy Wood and Kara Kovalchik deserve another title, like professional facts wranglers or navigational captains of the i

The Northwest's well-earned reputation for cloud cover does make solar energy a tough path to "getting off the grid" — disconnecting from the local public utility and producing all of a household's energy needs by alternative means — but more home

QI have a trivial travel issue that is turning into something that's anything but trivial. Frontier Airlines mishandled my bags on a recent flight to Salt Lake City. I had missed a connection, and the airline promised to send the bags to my hotel.