It takes years for kids to figure out how to spit — but it's an important skill. (Photo: Getty; illustrated by Nathalie Cruz) There will no doubt come a time when your child spits more than you'd like ...

Travelling in an auto rickshaw, a fellow passenger sitting next to driver spits. Few drops come to Prakash sitting right behind. When Prakash complains, passenger who spit retorts, ‘Wind is blowing ...

Barbara Sanders is a writer, activist, and lover of baseball. I was never a baseball player as a child, but I liked playing softball at times. I became a fan of baseball later on in life.

Hock a loogie and you’ll see it — that slimy, bubbly, lovely liquid known as spit. A complex fluid known in more refined circles as saliva, the initial benefits of spit may seem obvious. Spit ...