All's fair in love and purchasing.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

As people do a task, they improve at it.