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Burton Cole

Let’s crack the QR code into teeny, tiny pieces

I finished my order of General Tso’s chicken and reached for dessert — the fortune cookie. And got hotter than the general’s chicken when I pulled the slip out of the cookie. My fortune came with a QR code. Seriously? Two troubling questions weighed upon me: One, do you have to ...

I love food, uh, you. I mean you!

What do we love more than love? Spin a few of our love songs, sugar pie honey bunch, and you’ll soon taste what’s really on the menu: food. We are passionately attracted to calories, carbs and proteins — and the knowledge that just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. We ...

Believe me, man flu is real

“Man flu” is real. Science says so. Sorta. A few years back, Dr. Robert H. Shmerling, a known man, wrote for Harvard Health Publishing that women who refer to man flu as “wimpy man syndrome” very well could be committing a horrible injustice. “Some have suggested that early man ...

Life: A series of obstacles interrupting naps

To enjoy life, the life coach said, one must overcome common obstacles, such as fear, unreasonable expectations, bum goals and those inner voices whispering that success is for others, not for people like you. I’m not on a quest for an exciting, wild life. At my age, all I want is a nap. ...

I need a cure to recover from cures for the common cold

Glance out the window to see what the weather’s doing. Good. Now peek again. Sure, it’s only been a few seconds, but that’s long enough for northeast Ohio to throw us another curve ball. The temperature may have changed by 20 or 30 degrees. If it was sunny, now it’s raining. Or ...

I didn’t want to know this much

In 1956, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock released one of his masterpieces, “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” It was a film full of suspense, intrigue and not knowing what was really going on. Seventy years after Hitchcock’s movie, we’re now “The People Who Know Too Much.” Our lives are ...