Most people try this at least once. You sit down, look at your foot and try to move just one toe, expecting it to behave like a finger. Instead, all your toes lift together or barely move at all. It ...

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It was the faintest of movements, three toes barely wiggling. Jack Jablonski was sitting on his parents’ deck in Minneapolis before heading out to dinner on the Fourth of July when it happened. He’d ...

Aug. 6 is National Wiggle Your Toes Day. Funny story. The other evening, I was feeling kind of wiggly myself, and then I thought, “Why am I wiggly? Oh my gosh, is this restless leg syndrome?” The down ...

One of my favorite activities is going to the zoo where I live in Knoxville when it first opens and the animals are most active. On one recent weekend, I headed to the chimpanzees first. Their ...