Blowing out birthday candles is fun ... varying amounts of bacteria flying onto your birthday cake. “Until recently, there weren’t a lot of studies on this or how your spit gets aerosolized ...

If you lived through the ‘80s, chances are you went to a few middle-class birthday parties that looked a lot like these ...

“Until recently, there weren’t a lot ... sans candle blowout. In all sincerity, I’d hate to be the person to deliver info that will never let you look at a slice of birthday cake the same ...

Sobering thought for the day: The older you get, the more birthday candles on your cake. For Ernestine Ashworth, who in Noah Haidle’s one-act play “Birthday Candles” ages from 17 to 107 ...