This year plastic surgery requests are up for toned triceps like the First Lady’s and other female celebrities
Health
College Athlete Puts Aside Sports Goals to Help Save Stranger’s Life
The 21-year-old must miss the close of track season to donate bone marrow to someone he’s never met.
McDonald’s Burger Looks the Same – 14 Years Later
Well, that can’t be good for your health.
The ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ Is a Really, Really Bad Idea
What’s the stupidest thing you’d do to score hits on YouTube? Swallow a heaping spoonful of dry cinnamon?
‘Light Drinking’ During Pregnancy is Not Harmful for Baby, Study Says
No need for booze-fasting when you’re carrying.
Study: Economic Crisis Improved Cuba’s Health
During the devastating downturn of the 1990s, a new report shows, the average Cuban lost 11 pounds and was far less likely to be diagnosed with diabetes.
More People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets, U.N. Study Shows
Out of the world’s estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones. Only 4.5 billion have access to working toilets
‘Giant’ Mosquitoes Set to Invade Florida This Summer
It’s not as if they didn’t have anything else to worry about.
Thousands of Dead Pigs Pulled from Shanghai River, Prompting Contamination Fears
Don’t mind the floating dead pigs; the water is still safe to drink – or so say Shanghai officials after removing more than 2,800 carcasses from the Huangpu River since Friday, the Associated Press reports.
The river runs …
The Science behind ‘Beer Goggles’
A new study from Durham University in the U.K. says that beauty may really be in the eye of the beer holder — but not for the reasons we think.
New Study Uses Tweets To Rank America’s Happiest Cities, States
Better think twice about that next tweet. It could be used to determine how happy you are
Sum of the Parts: Prosthetics Through the Centuries
People have been devising fake arms, legs, noses and virtually every other body part for centuries. Here, a quick look at some of the devices that humans have invented to replace — or at least approximate — the irreplaceable.