Dave Ettl

This sounds a bit like a tall tale but science says snagging a tall guy may lead to a happier relationship.  In a study out of England, researchers asked a group of men how content they were in their relationships and they found that tall guys were happier and less jealous than their vertically challenged counterparts

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High Tech Alert.  The Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project has been talking to your neighbors to collect the facts on our use of digital & internet devices. From the survey of 3,000 people ages 16 and up:

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Doctor Dave here to help keep your relationship ship shape.  So, you want to keep the home fires burning? Yuk it up a bit! Don’t take my word for it, I find everything to be funny, but science is on my side. Appalachian State University psychologists say to see a comedy on your next date night.

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Its seems like only yesterday to me…Johnny Carson saying good night for the last time…he saw that fork in the road and he took it…and that upstart kid Jay Leno stepping in…but it’s been 21 years!

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AH yes I remember it well…The trip to the doctor for the ultra sound to determine the sex of our baby.  The excitement, the speculation, the search for boy & girl names when all along, the answer to the question  “what are you having” was as plain as the nose on my wife’s beautiful face!  Allow me to explain why I could have/should have stopped my name search at Katelyn (my 4-yr old tornado)

Scientists say beautiful women are more likely to have baby girls than their …er…um…”less beautiful” counterparts.

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Matadors will tell you that the bull attacks when it see red…Women will tell you they'll attacks when they see red as well….ok, knock it off but there does seem to be some science behind the attractive nature of the color red.

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That’s the beauty of radio…you don’t have to be able to spell all that well…until these daily posts to the website started happening.  BAM!  Now it’s just like being back on TV.  Everything has to be spell checked and what do we discover when we do that? We find that the one word in the English language that is most frequently misspelled is…

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Just in time for asparagus season in the Yakima Valley!  So perhaps you are still celebrating from the great apple season and perhaps you awake one day with a bit of a hangover…not that you would…but if you do….steam up some asparagus.

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In the words of Jimmy Souls 1963 Number one hit song “If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, Never make a pretty woman your wife, So from my personal point of view, Get an ugly girl to marry you.”  Well, science doesn’t get that specific but research does show that if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, do get married (good looks optional) but do not get divorced

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Pop Culture media tells us 70 is the new 30….no really, I read that….and now researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany sort of prove that, saying our ancestors had the same odds of dying at age 30 as men today face at age 72.

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