As anybody who's sadly tried to suck the last of the whipped cream out of the can can attest, nitrous oxide can get you high. And, like any powerful drug, it breeds its own kind of addicts.
Nothing important ever goes away -- it just evolves -- and today the tradition of ratcatching lives on through professional exterminators and amateur rat-hunting groups.
Most of us get to see air travel only from the perspective of weary passengers. But what is life like for the people who call an airplane their office?
We spoke with an actual live-in organic farm hand to learn what life is really like at the place where all of our childhood dogs went and lived happily ever after.
Jane Halston became one of the first people in the world to receive a successful hand transplant. However, it wasn't all sunshine and thumb wars. Here's what the media didn't tell us.