Health

Plane travel really is painful  ©Eric C Bryan We all know how stressful and tedious air travel can be. Along with that, new research has surfaced claiming that plane flight can actually cause...

You are now encouraged to move about the cabin © Gene Eaton "Economy class syndrome", the nickname that suggests Coach seating causes blood clots, is in fact not true. New guidelines state that the...

Just say 'Om' to the new yoga room at SFO © lyn tally Yesterday SFO opened the very first airport-based yoga room. Stressed out travelers are free to come in and practice independently. The room is...

Turner Wright explores the ten worst diseases for world travelers.

Exploring the rise of medical tourism - a growing cottage industry that caters to travelers shopping the world's hospitals for medical procedures at bargain basement prices.

Bangkok at Night © antwerpenR Feeling a little dirty after nights of Patpong sex shows and buckets of Chang? No worries, Thailand has you covered. For a mere 30,000 USD per month you can kick any...

Travelers have another reason to fear bedbugs, according to a report by MSNBC; a study finds bedbugs also have antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Lovely. More via...

BoingBoing points us to a rather alarming statistic regarding the new full-body X-ray scanners now favored by the TSA. In an online essay titled, Holt Continues to Question Science, Effectiveness of TSA...

Exhausted Passengers at Frankfurt Airport, Germany © Alberto Vaccaro According to a new study (oh if I had a nickel ...), jet lag may not only be inconvenient. It may actually make you dumber: A...

A new ad campaign by Africa Directo for malaria awareness uses mural drawings of mosquitoes to make its point. The portraits of despots like Hitler and Stalin - responsible for the deaths of millions - are...

Every once in a while, I receive an e-mail from a wayward traveler looking for a bit of advice. A kind, young chap e-mailed me this morning: Hey! I love your website after just having discovered it a...

Two Beagles, Phoenix © freeparking The noses used to sniff out anything from cocaine to bombs are now being used to sniff out another menace — bed bugs. A New York company is offering the services...

Chris Cook explores the fascinating (albeit confusing) role of the bidet.

Nora Dunn explores the five steps to ditching your liquid contraband and becoming a proud solid traveler.

Move over Evian, there’s a new stylish bottled water in the market, and it’s sourced from a region even more pristine than the French Alps. Heaven, actually. Tasmanian Rain bottled water is captured...

From the Mental Floss Random Fact Generator: Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare side effect of brain trauma, whereby a patient’s enunciation is altered to the point where it begins to resemble a foreign...

As rising global oil prices have pushed up prices of basic food ingredients, people of the Caribbean nation of Haiti are learning to make do with an ingredient that’s more affordable, albeit not so...

The BBC is reporting a yellow fever alert in Brazil. Brazilian authorities are asking travelers headed to the country to check their vaccination needs, after a man died of yellow fever, the first such case...

A 30 year old Nepal native from Sunnyvale, California might have infected other passengers on an American Airlines flight from New Delhi to Chicago, with a deadly drug resistant strain of Tuberculosis. Health...

As a rather apt follow-up to this video review of Tokyo's coffin hotels ... Tokyo has joined the growing list of cities to enforce stricter restrictions on smoking in public. After Paris' cafes, it’s...