Eat more fruit: Any colored fruit might be made even more healthful with the addition of a splash of alcohol, they report in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Strawberry daiquiri, anyone? Sangria?

ODDS & ENDS • Caffeinated soap. The latest way to jump-start your morning (or afternoon), I guess. Makers ThinkGeek have some other interesting things, too, including a titanium spork. • Speaking of odd gadgets … • The IRS tells me my tax refund should be here by May 1. Yay! • I’m sure Big Box [...]

Today’s lesson: Airplanes do not have steering wheels. Despite what reporters and an editor may say. An airplane has a yoke. (And it’s not a yolk, as that editor tried to “fix.”) A helicopter has a cyclic. (For an admittedly juvenile chuckle, check out the definition of cyclic.) What brought that on? A 78-year-old grandmother [...]

Fox News makes you stupid: … the survey respondents who seemed to know the most about what’s going on — who were able to identify major public figures, for example — were likely to be viewers of fake news programs like Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”; those who knew the least [...]

Sanjaya Malakar was eliminated from “American Idol.” I don’t care, I don’t follow “A.I.” … but Kevin didn’t believe me.