Needless to say, I’m a huge fan of Saturday morning cartoons. I consider those days something of a lost art, and X-Men: The Animated Series was a premiere piece in that collection. But that was then.

One of the greatest pleasures in life is to scratch an itch — in both the real and figurative sense. Although scratching an itch provides immediate (albeit temporary) relief, it may actually trigger ...

The Simpsons is the longest-running animated sitcom and still continues to be popular today. The show has a cynical edge making fun of middle-class America with a balance of feel-good sentimentality.

Despite the saying “happiness is having a scratch for every itch,” itching often makes the itchy skin condition worse. So why is the instinct so strong? In a study with mice, researchers from the ...

What’s common between a scratchy sweater, a mosquito bite, and poison ivy? A brush with any of them guarantees an itchy spot on the skin. Scratching that itch is extremely tempting because of how ...

I remember it well: our dark winter of itch when the kids were small. It started with a note sent home—years before the pandemic—that my child had been exposed, not to a deadly virus but to lice.

Scratching an itch can be really satisfying but also annoying at times. You often find yourself mindlessly scratching your ...