As the first semester of the school year reaches the halfway mark, countless college freshmen are becoming aware that their clothes are feeling rather snug. While the so-called freshman 15 may be hyperbole, studies confirm that many college students do put on five to 10 pounds during that first year away from home. … [Read more...]
Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe
If you are looking for a simple, tasty recipe to whip up a quick chicken salad sandwich, but you'd rather not succumb to the fats in mayonnaise, this amazing avocado chicken salad recipe is a great healthy alternative. … [Read more...]
Shell Pulled Out, But Arctic Drilling Is Not Over
At the end of this summer, Royal Dutch Shell heaved a seven-billion-dollar sigh of resignation and announced that it would stop exploration in the Chukchi Sea. … [Read more...]
Severin Hacker Talks About Smart App Duolingo, Teaching the World New Languages
When Bill Gates confesses to regretting never having learned a foreign language, you can’t help but wonder what exactly makes mastering a foreign tongue so vexingly difficult. For those of us who are not retired billionaires, the expense and time that traditional education models demand is a huge contributing factor. For those who are, perhaps the tedium of it all is to blame. … [Read more...]
Cheaper Jet Fuel and a Big Merger Agree With American Airlines
A big merger and cheaper jet fuel are doing wonders for American Airlines. The world's biggest airline reported Friday that its net income jumped 80 percent in the third quarter to $1.69 billion despite lower revenue. … [Read more...]
Super Tunnel Closed Down After Transport of Marijuana Discovered
A sophisticated, super tunnel was discovered by federal officials Wednesday night near San Diego, leading to the arrest of 22 people and confiscation of 12 tons of marijuana estimated at $6 million. … [Read more...]
Deeper Calls, Smaller Balls: Howler Monkeys Learn to Compensate
Across the animal kingdom, males hoot and holler to attract females and ward off competing suitors. Now, a new study finds that male howler monkeys with deeper calls have smaller testicles – and vice versa, according to researchers from universities of Utah, Cambridge and Vienna and other institutions. … [Read more...]
Angelina Jolie Is Happy to Be at Home With Family
Angelina Jolie is the screenwriter, director and star of the upcoming film By the Sea, though in a recent interview, she said the job she most relishes is mothering her six children. … [Read more...]
Seals Use iPad to Stay in Touch After Being Separated
If there's anything more adorable in this world than two long-distance seal friends who like to video chat each other to keep in touch, then we've yet to find it. Sija and Babyface were a couple when they lived together in the UK's Cornish Seal Sanctuary before the summer, but after Sija was discovered to have conceived two seal pups despite being on a seal contraceptive pill, … [Read more...]
Study Shows Your Sunscreen Is Killing Coral Reefs in the U.S.
Coral reefs cannot seem to catch a break this year. Between a particularly strong El Niño, ocean acidification and increasing ocean temperatures, links between overfishing and reef collapses, and the declaration of a massive coral bleaching event expected to affect 95 percent of U.S. coral reefs by the end of the year, the current state of the global environment has been … [Read more...]