If you find yourself at City Hall Plaza on August 15, look for a 72-year-old man tooling around in a blue-and-yellow go-cart. That’ll be the Maine inventor Jory Squibb, in town for the One Gallon ...

I am that person who hates drinking water. Most days, I avoid doing so entirely, subsisting on coffee, herbal tea, and the occasional LaCroix. But a few months ago, I began to suspect that chronic ...