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We all have to do it, but we don't have to do it wrong. Here are four more laundry myths you can live without.

In Part I of this sparkling fresh article, we washed away four laundry myths that no one should have to put up with. Subjects we took on included the value of hot water and the use of bleach, and why you shouldn't overdo it with the detergents. In this sanitary conclusion, we'll come clean on four more myths about laundry.

Out, out, damned spot! And take these laundry myths with you!

Laundry myths offer a good example of how even everyday tasks can accrue a web of misconceptions and false facts that get in the way of actually getting the job done. With the exception of a few Beverly Hills types and lazy husbands, almost everyone does laundry -- and a lot of what we know about it is wrong.

In this two-parter, we'll take a look at eight laundry myths that all of us would be better off without believing.

Whether you consider yourself green or otherwise, you've probably heard a few organic gardening myths in your time. Here's the truth about four popular ones.

Just about everyone's interested in organic gardening from one viewpoint or another, so it's no surprise that organic gardening myths might pop up in the garden of public opinion. Myths both pro and con are easy to come by -- so we'll cover both sides of the issue in this article.

In a previous article, we dismantled four common breastfeeding myths. In this article, we'll bring you abreast of the truth about several more.

As we mentioned in our earlier article, breastfeeding myths are common -- indeed, there are so many that we decided to revisit the issue. Previously, we discussed (among other things) the beliefs that breastfeeding should hurt, that bottle-feeding is easier, and that babies with diarrhea shouldn't breastfeed.

All of which are wrong, by the way. In this article, we'll take a look at four more misconceptions about the ancient practice of breastfeeding, and unmask the facts. These are just a few of many myths, by the way -- we may just have to do another article on the subject.

Even if you don't like spiders, you shouldn't let spider myths guide your prejudices. Here a few common ones to take note of.

It's no wonder that there are so many spider myths in pop culture, since after all we're talking about some of the creepiest of the creepy-crawlies. The fact that spiders tend to be beneficial is hard to remember when one considers the venom of the black widow, and the fuzzy horribleness of the tarantula.

In this article, we'll try to wrap up four of the more common myths about spiders, once and for all. Sure, spiders may be bugs, but they're misunderstood bugs (or reasonable facsimiles thereof, anyway), as we'll show you here.

If you think the Olympic torch tradition is a legacy of the ancient Greeks, then you've fallen for one of the more persistent Olympic myths; it's actually a Nazi invention. Intrigued? Read on!

Whether you believe the demigod Herakles or the Lydian prince Pelops founded the ancient Olympics (there are Olympic myths claiming both), it's a fact that the Games are shrouded in their own special brand of mythology. It goes without saying that most of those myths are a far cry from fact -- but we'll say it anyway.

So grab your torch and follow along as we take a closer look at a trio of interesting and tenacious myths about the Olympic Games, ancient and modern, and offer up the fascinating truth behind all three.

If you're not sure how to tell fact from meteorological fiction, read on as we shed some light on five familiar hurricane myths.

Hurricanes may be a way of life on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, but since Katrina and Rita, no one takes them and the associated hurricane myths for granted anymore. A lot of people know better than to try to ride them out now, too.

Nevertheless, there are a few persistent myths that can get you and yours hurt -- or even killed -- if you accept them at face value. Let's take a closer look at five of the big ones, shall we?

Have you fallen prey to common PC privacy myths? Check and see.

Even this deep into the Information Age, most people are still plagued by certain PC privacy myths. For example: if you think deleting a file erases it from your computer, then you've fallen for one of the most prevalent myths. As any hacker could tell you, a file remains in memory, somewhere, until it's actively overwritten.

Even then, it may still be recoverable. Back in the old days, if you wanted to be rid of a document, you could tear it up and burn it, and it would be gone for good. With computers, a document might linger, at least in fragmentary form, for years...and that's the least of your PC privacy worries.

While you can expect a legal right to privacy in regards to your snail mail, email privacy is another thing altogether.

Email privacy myths are among the most persistent of the Information Age. They tend to linger, even as more people come to realize that, given the insecurity of the World Wide Web and other forms of electronic information exchange, very little of our personal information is truly confidential anymore.

We Americans expect that our postal mail will remain absolutely private, because that's a right guaranteed by the Constitution. We tend to extend that assumption to electronic mail, too; but the fact is, you just can't have the same expectation of privacy with email as you do with "snail" mail. In this article, we'll explain why.

Myth about cats are exceedingly common in our society, so we thought it was about time to follow up on our earlier two-parter on the subject.

A few weeks back, we examined eight common myths about cats, and (hopefully) added a leavening of truth to the prevailing feline folklore. Unsurprisingly, this barely scratched the surface (so to speak) of what turned out to be a rather fascinating and complex subject.

And so, in our unending quest to bust the myths that so pervade human understanding of the universe, we thought we'd take another look at the matter. After all, we dug up so much cool stuff the first time that we never got to use... So here you are: four more common cat myths!