Your growing ITunes library may be affecting your next shopping trip to Ikea. As more people abandon hard copies for digital media, they change the way they decorate and the way they interact with others.

Guess what? Craigslist’s Missed Connections — which started out as a romantic, whimsical way to reconnect with someone, and achieved fame as a success story for couples everywhere — has devolved, as so many romantic fantasies do, into a way for people to fake love for the sake of hooking up.

Everyone knows about spelling bees, but how about the geographic version of this extended, on-stage pop quiz? The National Geography Bee takes place every spring after the state contests a few weeks earlier.

As Methamphetamine use falls across the country, there are still hundreds of workers in the meth lab cleanup industry, despite the undesirability of the job.

While the shoe has long been considered vital to foot health, experts say the sock trumps souped-up rubber in keeping feet happy and healthy. Now, new technologies — such as footwear that fits like a glove to materials woven from corn — are helping the sock embrace a newfound importance.

Members of the youngish generation tag the suffix ish on to just about any word. And they’re using it as a standalone, too. It’s the linguistic equivalent of dressing differently from their parents.

The phenomenon known as the seven-year itch is a turning point, when husbands and wives battle the temptations of extramarital lust or love. Yet today’s unmarried twentysomething couples are just as young and just as restless, and their longing for the single life is just as common.

Finding fashionable wide shoes can be a challenge for women.

Casual sex has become so prevalent among college students that dating has become a lost art. Now several universities have begun offering courses that teach students how to get to know each other before slipping between the sheets.

A series of dramatic accidents has recently put the spotlight on automobile safety and design. But whether crashes are caused by faulty floor mats or faulty software, some argue that what matters most is what drivers wear on their feet.