The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could induce physicians to pay more attention to the condition and spur more insurers to pay for treatments.
If you hate McAfee antivirus, the software's namesake will show you how to get rid of it.
Men's Wearhouse has fired George Zimmer, the man who founded the brand 40 years ago.
Rihanna appears to have hit a male fan in the face after he grabbed her and refused to let her go at a performance at Birmingham's LG Arena.
More of the country’s growing cadre of nouveau riche are buying refrigerators, and yet few outside the country’s capital are actually using the appliances to cool food. Why?
Next time you think about sending a cease and desist, be sure your lawyers are better than the person’s lawyers you are going after.
How do you test a narcissist's level of narcissism without them knowing you're testing them.
America’s struggle to outsmart its enemies has been rigorously discussed since 9/11. Where the story becomes turgid—where we stop paying attention—is on the unsexy but crucial question of how that intelligence, once gathered, is organized and made available in a way that will allow it to actually be put to use.
The only Twitter-based sitcom, out of an astonishing 555,000,000 accounts, CBS’ '$h*! My Dad' Says adapts the original feed in the only way it can: through a series of terrible decisions.
Here's the first full trailer for 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' with actual footage from the movie.
The contrast between the modern animation and the sketches from the people at the time is quite remarkable, as is the quite incredible distance their collective minds were outside the box.
How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link.
If you’ve ever damaged or destroyed your camera, here’s a lighthearted list of a few interesting ways other people have suffered a wounded soldier while out in the field.
A short comic on the pace of modern life.
The image was stark: a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul.
New technology is expensive while the kinks are being worked out.
The remarkable consolidation of the communications and Web industries into a handful of firms has made spying much simpler and, therefore, more likely to happen.
Bank of America whistle-blowers detail horrid schemes to fleece borrowers and reward foreclosures.
The world in 1950 looked very different from how it does now.
How many lives Facebook saved by adding its organ-donation feature won’t be known for decades, but the results have been great so far.
The average destination of a nation’s international flights reveals its migratory bias, nearby tourist attractions, and the countries with which it does business.
This guy was clearly raised by a clan of ninja maids or something.
Take a peek into the life of military drone operators who put their "Top Gun" dreams on hold to spend their days spying from the skies.
And don't bring honey when you go hunting.
If you’re horrified by the prospect of eating food containing genes that were altered by some industrial food giant, Chipotle will tell you what’s what in its ingredients. Just don’t expect to be eating much that’s on the menu.
How the world's only known white gorilla came to be.
The only excerpt from Questlove's book that you need to read.
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write.
Yesterday, Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano experienced a powerful explosion as the top “popped off” to relieve the pressure within. A webcam pointed at the peak was able to capture the whole thing, and the video above shows what the explosion and resulting shockwave look like in time-lapse.
"I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you: don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky."
Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 33.
Tree Tuesday is the meme that’s taking Google+ by storm.
In 2004, Canada made it a criminal offense to compensate sperm and egg donors. - See more at.
Here's how not to be a total, blundering idiot at the grill and in the kitchen.
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