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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Juilliard Brings Online Music Education to the Masses
It's easy for Vogue to check every model's ID. It's a lot more difficult to start checking the egos of the magazine's own photographers and editors.
Here's an interesting way to get around a ban on incandescent light bulbs: Market them as space heaters.
For all you health nuts/coffee drinkers, get this: frappuccinos, those delicious concoctions of frozen coffee goodness, have more fat than a...
In 2006, Chicago became the first city in the United States to ban foie gras. Last May, the ban was overturned. Still, foie-the fatty liver of...
You may have heard last week that soda companies voluntarily removed their wares from schools. But that's just the beginning. Apparently, when...
In the UK, half the dogs and cats are overweight. So, if pet health bears any similarity to trends and music and fashion, half of New York pets...
Yes, that is a Turbaconucken, a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, all wrapped in bacon. It and other culinary death-traps can be found at...
Earlier today, Morning Joe featured a clip from Parks and Recreation, where kids in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana are "beefy, husky, big...
An update on our collective waistline: The Trust for America's Health has a new report out, with the blunt title "F as in Fat," and the news...
It's not just humans. Scientists say the animals that live around us are also putting on the pounds—rats, cats, and rhesus monkeys.
Was it strange reading that title? Because it was pretty weird writing it.New Zealander Pete Bethune's eco-boat, Earthrace, runs on biofuel made...
In case you missed it last week, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon was boasting of running his car on the fat he siphoned out of obese patients. Dr....
Painfully obvious? Yes. But Catherine Rampbell has a graph to back it up. It looks like there's a pretty real correlation between the time people...
Two sociologists make a compelling case for eradicating fat stigma. Even with legal protection, it's going to be a formidable task.
James Fowler explains how smoking, obesity, and happiness can be contagious. In their pioneering research, James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis...
In the battle between bonbons and tobacco, anti-obesity is the new anti-smoking, insofar as teens and public health campaigns are concerned. The...
Guess how big "king-sized" used to be?
A new study found that with people with higher BMIs are much likely to die within 10 years, as compared to people with lower ones.
A new study looks at how meat and potatoes affect your waistline in the long run.
Seventeen-year-old Stacey Irvine's Chicken McNuggets diet has driven her to the hospital. She's also (gasp!) thin.
