Whether you’re out of the house for the first time, going through a divorce, or have just moved to a new city, living alone is not easy. After friends and family eat the last of the pizza and all the boxes are unpacked, the silence can become deafening. Most people will sit down on the couch and drown out the silence with television or endless phone calls to friends and family. After you run out of subjects to talk about, you’ll find yourself tuning into other people’s lives with reality shows. And after a while, you’ll get sick of it all. Munching on snacks can keep you pre-occupied for a bit, but all the cheap pizzas and endless bowls of popcorn will make you feel sluggish. Sitting on the couch all night can make you feel useless. But it doesn’t have to be that way... (Continue)

When one thinks of powerful jaws, many different images may come to mind.  Many a person's primal fear is tapped imagining a great white shark, with a mouth full of rows of flesh shredding teeth clamping down like a vise on their soft bodies.  One may envision a Nile crocodile ambushing and dragging a wildebeest calf, driven by unbearable thirst to the murky water's edge, down to its watery demise.  Or perhaps a hyena, which jaws are capable of snapping even the largest of bones and possessing extremely acidic digestive fluids enabling them to dissolve the teeth and hooves of its prey.  Yet most forward thinking persons would not even consider ants.  The trap-jaw ant was recently anointed the king of jaws after its mandibles were clocked at a closing speed of up to 145 miles per hour and generating an acceleration rate of 100,000 times greater ... (Continue)