Stumped on what to talk about on Turkey Day? Avoid potentially awkward subjects with our list of 10 reasonably safe (but potentially interesting) topics.

These cartoons have gone to the dogs.

In the 1880s, Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound eased monthly woes using herbal remedies…and a heavy dose of alcohol.

“His gift of words being still upon him he unrolled once more a prospect of enchanted lands and cities — Vita pieta sensualis, the pride of the eye and fullness of life, many-colored, thrilling, beyond this fog.”

A recent study contends that organic foods are less likely to contain pesticide residues than conventional foods, a finding that might make them less carcinogenic.