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Anyone who has has had the misfortune of not being able to live alone has one: a story about a really wretched roommate. I'm not just talking about the one who forgets to take out the trash or...
Research has already shown that guys do worse on cognitive tests when they're forced to interact with a lady beforehand. Now a new study reveals that all you need to render guys brainless is a woman's name on an instant message screen.
Well, here's the most upsetting new service we've heard about in a long time: a company offers to search your wife or girlfriend's panties for semen, then DNA-test it to see if she's cheating on you.
Let me ask you a question...can your husband trust you? I'm not talking about in the sense that you won't cheat on him. Of course, I hope he can trust you in that way. But I'm talking about the "little" stuff, or the stuff that we categorize as be...
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On last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, one pageant mom admitted that she regularly puts her 8-year-old daughter Ever Rose on a calorie-counting diet leading up to competitions. There's nothing wrong with teaching your kid about making healthy food choices, but making a little girl so aware of her weight and inextricably linking it to her "beauty" for which she will be judged seems really troubling.
A large new study has found that eating fried foods doesn't increase your risk of heart disease. One caveat: the study was conducted in Spain, where people mostly fry stuff in olive or sunflow...
The world's smallest ear doesn't belong to any animal. Instead, it's a tiny piece of gold suspended in a laser beam. It can hear sounds a million times fainter than any human ear can, making it a powerful acoustic microscope. The nano-ear is the work of Jochen Friedmann and Andrey Lutich
A task force convened by North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue has spent months debating what the state should do for the 1,500-2,000 living victims of its forced sterilization program, which targeted poor, black, and disabled residents all the way up into the seventies.
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Here's a little something for you from the department of counterintuitive findings: It turns out that selling junk food in schools doesn't actually have anything to do with making kids being obese. Are you fucking kidding me? After the countless hand motions we've all wasted scrolling through articles urging us to purge every last french fry and 4,246-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew from our schools, now just nevermind? Apparently so.
When the topic of "What America really needs" comes up, one answer inevitably surfaces as a common refrain: less labor-intensive access to fast food. Your dream may soon come true, America. Angel newspaper USA Today reports that cow holocaust organ Burger King is
We often think of vegetables as the food we buy and then store in the crisper until its time to make a meal with them, but chef and food writer Tamar Adler suggests cooking you vegetables right when you get home from the store to help them keep longer.
Although the past year didn't produce any fast food innovations on the order of 2010's fried-chicken-as-bread breakthrough, there were still several notable additions to the nation's collective drive-thru menu.
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Plenty of Barbie dolls have ended up bald after falling into the clutches of a nasty little brother, but now there's an online movement to have Mattel release a Barbie who's intentionally hairless.
Recently, a friend of mine told me about her daughter's friends -- two teenage girls who are touting beer cans in their Facebook profile photos. These are under-aged kids. 14-year-olds.
"Why are their parents letting them put pictures of themselves with beer on the Internet?" I said.
I am a drug addict. I use uppers and downers.
But only to make me a better parent.
I never drank coffee before I had kids. At least not in a "Fresh Pots!" sort of way. We didn't even own a coffee maker.
Back in those days, I looked down upon anyone who needed coffee in the morning. The more they required it the less I thought of them. They were weak. Slaves to the bean. Didn't they know it is a drug they are addicted to? Just stop drinking that shit and then you won't need it.
Darienne's husband deserves a big, fat kiss from every parent whose children likes to play with small toys:
Some kids like sorting and organizing Legos -- mine don't. They spread Legos all over the kitchen floor while they play which is wonderful...until it's time to clean up or actually use the room as a kitchen.
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In what has become an annual tradition now, the WWF's Earth Hour is presently sweeping across the globe, getting people to switch off non-essential lights and appliances for a sixty-minute kindness to Ma Earth and her finite energy resources. All you'll need to do to participate is power down the old World of Warcraft questing station, turn the TV off...
Humans have harvested the oceans for food for thousands of years, but unfortunately the bounties of the seas are not as endless as they seem. Commercial fishing technologies have advanced significantly in the past century, and marine ecosystems are threatened by over-fishing. For those who love seafood but also want to be mindful of the environment, here are some sustainable and affordable seafood choices...
Despite the incredible destruction caused by Friday’s earth-rupture and the subsequent massive ocean waves that devastated Japan’s coastline—officially the "Honshu Tsunami"—it was in many ways just another powerful planetary flex.
The 8.9 magnitude earthquake tore a split in the ocean floor more than 200 miles long and sent 30-foot waves toward Sendai.
Any sustainable foodie can tell you, consumers should lay off the bluefin tuna. Though they're still served at a startling frequency, bluefin tuna are extremely overfished, edging toward the brink of extinction at a breakneck speed. The remaining stocks of this majestic, warm-blooded fish have plummeted by more than 80 percent in recent years. In fact, Greenpeace recently likened eating the fish to eating an endangered tiger.
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We certainly have a wealth of anecdotes about what having power does to people: Power has led political figures like Herman Cain (allegedly) and John Edwards to engage in adultery, facilitated unethical financial practices on Wall Street, and contributed to some of the most overconfident moments in our nation's history. On the one hand, we could conclude from these examples that power leads people to immoral, unethical, and deviant behavior, and some research is suggestive of this possibility.
Whether you have just started in the world of work or a seasoned professional, establishing a successful work-life balance can prove difficult challenge. Having a good work life balance is a huge factor in your general happiness and well being. We all feel pressured to work and worry about work and we are all pressured to be out with friends or family every night. Pressure comes from all around you and before you know it you are stressed at work and not going out.
There are many pitfalls of striving for perfection. Most of us are familiar with these damaging effects: the pressure that leads to paralysis, a fear of mistakes, missed deadlines, stress, anxiety, low self-confidence.
But many people also credit their perfectionism for their great success. According to self-professed perfectionist Jeff Szymanski, Ph.D
The New Year means it's time to start organizing the areas of your life you've neglected, including out-of-sight (but awfully cluttered) kitchen drawers.
Are you guilty of buying more than one measuring spoon set, just to avoid hopelessly digging around your disorganized drawers? Has your junk drawer reached capacity?
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