Q. A few years ago, I removed the carpeting from two flights of stairs and replaced it with maple hardwood. They look beautiful, but they’re very slippery. A few months ago, I fell down the stairs and ...

Most of us never knew that watching six contestants trying to climb a slippery staircase could be so compelling, but here we are in the upside-down we call 2017. An episode from a Japanese game show ...

The world at the moment is a godawful cesspool of disasters, violence, war, terrible people in positions of power, and impending environmental catastrophe. So for a moment, it would be nice if we ...

Game shows have been making a bit of a resurgence in the United States in recent years, but it looks like Japan may have just raised the bar. An episode of a Japanese game show dubbed Slippery Stairs ...

Danny Lipford: Anytime you have wood outside—whether it’s a set of steps like this, or a wood deck, or a walkway—sooner or later it’s going to get dirty and that means it’s going to get slick and ...

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