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Lifestyle
Is It Cheaper to Be Vegan, Vegetarian, or a Meat Eater?
A day's worth of meals for a vegetarian, pescetarian, vegan, and a meat eater: tallied and compared, by price.
Environment
Innovative, Reusable "Replenish" Spray Bottle Could Disrupt Home Cleaning Market
The innovative and refillable Replenish spray bottle could be a truly disruptive product, reducing and reusing first, and recycling later.
Business
Skechers's Amazing Toms Shoes Rip Off
Bobs, like much like Toms, is a one syllable, generic name. Both shoes are little canvas slip-ons with cute patterns. See the pattern?
Culture
The New Dinosaur: Why I'm Not on Facebook, and Why You Shouldn't Be Either
The world's favorite social networking site doesn't have your best interests in mind. Quit it like I did.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: The Rise of White People Food
Does a constant focus by food writers on restaurants serving local, organic food mean we're missing out on a lot of delicious meals?
Culture
Nivea's Racist Ad "Re-civilizes" a Black Man
Nivea's depiction of afros as "uncivilized" dredges up a nasty stereotype about black people.
Business
World's Richest Man Says "Charity Doesn't Solve Anything"
The Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim hasn't signed the Gates and Buffett Giving Pledge because he doesn't believe in throwing money at problems.
Business
In America, $11,000 a Year Is Not Poor
New data released by the U.S. Census today found that 14 percent of Americans live below the poverty line. This is the highest percentage of...
Culture
How Your Meat Eating Can Kill Vegetarians
A new E. coli outbreak in Europe has already killed nearly 20 people. The culprit? Cucumbers like the ones in your favorite vegan salad.
Business
Buy Nothing Day Is Here—Join a Whirlmart Near You to Celebrate
The 8th annual Buy Nothing Day is here with creative calls to supplant shopping trips with community, parades, and empty shopping cart meet-ups.
Culture
A Step-By-Step Guide to Boycotting GoDaddy.com
Here's how to abandon the sexist web host who kills African elephants for kicks.
Culture
Meet the Two American Companies Helping Egypt Restrict Its People
Meet the two American corporations helping Egypt—and other Arab nations—oppress citizens and crush protests.
Business
The TOMS Shoe Model: Meaning or Marketing?
In the last few years, doing good and helping others has become fashionable with companies clamoring to get on the do-gooding bandwagon. One...
Culture
Unfriended: Six Million Americans Fled Facebook Last Month
As the third world adopts the U.S.'s biggest social networking site, Americans are leaving it by the millions.
Culture
The 400 Richest Americans Are Now Richer Than the Bottom 50 Percent Combined
The richest people in America command more wealth than entire cities combined.
Business
Special Panties Stymie Scanners at Airports
A special, lead-free metal is "decoratively" affixed to your undies so TSA scanners will reveal a less embarrassing natural shape, a fig leaf.
Education
Transparency: Are the Richest Americans Also the Best Educated?
We've looked at the educational achievement and the median income of the entire nation. Is there any correlation?
Lifestyle
American Medical Association Officially Condemns Photoshopping
It only took a few decades, but health professionals are now calling on advertisers to stop photoshopping models into oblivion.
