Herbs and spices can be added to practically anything, including breakfast cereals, baked goods, and savory dishes. But if you’re a flavor hater, you may want to reconsider your stance when you hear how surprisingly good they are for your health, chock-full of powerful antioxidants and other medicinal properties. Let’s break down the benefits of the different spices on your rack.

Editor's Note: You should talk to your doctor before making any changes to your daily diet.

As we get older, conventional wisdom says our best years are behind us, right? But that’s not necessarily the case! As another famous saying goes, “Age is just a number.” We’ve got some incredible examples of that here, with the following folks racking up amazing accomplishments well into their twilight years — including a 97-year-old Nobel Prize winner and a centenarian skier.

Frank Herbert’s Dune books and the movie adaptations they inspired are filled with out-there technology and esoteric ideas about the potential of human consciousness. But how many of the author’s ideas bear any relation to reality? Is it possible that we could develop gizmos like stillsuits, ornithopters, and personal forcefield shields, and, if so, how far away are we from seeing them? We’ll look at these and more of Herbert’s ideas to see if our real-life technological progress is taking us any closer to the world of Dune.

Exceptional people: that’s exactly what you’d call Ryan and Sara Senter. They’ve earned that title because of their generous fostering. And not just a couple of kids — they’ve opened their home to no fewer than nine children. Given that they have two much-loved youngsters of their own, that means that their busy home has a population of 13: enough to field a soccer team with two subs on the bench! Even so, they found time to start a unique coffee shop.