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Fact: Social media is good for business

Survey data reveals that 90% of customers would recommend a brand after a positive social media interaction.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Injured kitten wears crocheted costumes to get better

Badly injured from a crow attack, little Wasabi-Chan was nursed back to health by a crafty rescuer in Japan.




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Famous Atlanta cat sells house, moves to forever home

BeltLine Piper sold her prime real estate along the Eastside Trail and is now enjoying life as an indoor cat a couple blocks away.




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School pays service to monitor students' social media accounts

Will social media monitoring protect kids online or is it just plain spying?



  • Protection & Safety

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Astrophysicists hunt for time travelers on Twitter and Facebook

But apparently, time travelers shy away from promoting their whereabouts on social media.




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Twitter maps reveals which U.S. states prefer Bud Light and which prefer Merlot

California and the Northeast love wine, Colorado and the Midwest quaff beer.




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Female scientists respond to sexist comments with 'distractingly sexy' photos

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Tim Hunt talked about his 'trouble with girls' this week, and women in the scientific community responded perfectly.



  • Arts & Culture

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BatDad dishes out hilarious superhero justice to everyday kid crimes

Armed with a husky voice and a $10 mask, BatDad has a cult following on Twitter Vine.




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Scientists turn Twitter into a comedy fest with #AcademicHipster hashtag

The hashtag has started to trend as academics compete for cooler-than-you tweets. But you probably haven't heard of it.



  • Arts & Culture

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MoreThanMean: These tweets to female sportswriters are downright cruel

Exposing and discussing harassment is a way to send the message that it's not OK.



  • Arts & Culture

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NASA's request for new planet names is a hilarious McPlanetface disaster

Suggested names for the new TRAPPIST-1 system planets range from Planet McPlanetface to the series 'Friends.'




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Meet the other Sarah Palin (she might save your life)

Sarah Palin lifeguarding in Texas? You betcha. Ann Curry reveals there is another Sarah Palin, a college student, who fields 200 Facebook requests a day.



  • Arts & Culture

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Name a roach after your sweetheart for Valentine's Day

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, the Bronx Zoo is making an unusual offer: the right to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after a loved one.




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Homemade Valentine's gifts

You could spend hours at the mall trying to find the perfect Valentine's Day gift and ask the cashier for a gift receipt, just in case.



  • Arts & Culture

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Men do bulk of the shopping for Valentine's Day

Americans will profess their love this Valentine's Day by digging deeper into their wallets than ever before, new research shows.



  • Arts & Culture

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The V-Spot: Lovey-dovey home design

Not in the gift-giving mood for chocolates, flowers and racy lingerie this Valentine's Day? Consider these 10 lust-worthy home design picks sure to please any s




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America's most romantic cities revealed

Cupid must be spending some time in Knoxville, Tenn. At least that is the finding of a new poll by Amazon.com that named Knoxville the most romantic city in the




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The V-Spot: Amore-centric home accessories

Not in the mood for fair trade chocolates and underpants? Consider these home design picks to please any sustainability minded sweetie this Valentine's Day.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Valentine's meals to cook at home

From appetizer to dessert, a menu for Valentine’s Day dinner so you can enjoy time in the kitchen with your sweetheart.




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Home is where the heart is: Lovey-dovey design for Valentine's Day

On the hunt for the perfect Valentine's Day gift? Consider these handmade and eco-friendly home accessories that not-so-subtly say 'amore.'




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10 memorable snippets of relationship advice from comedians

Love can be confusing and heart-wrenching — but it can also be funny!



  • Arts & Culture

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Wartime sweethearts reunited after 70 years

American Norwood Thomas traveled to Australia to see his lost love Joyce Morris for the first time since 1945.



  • Arts & Culture

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Dog befriends sea lion, chases it four kilometers out to sea

An energetic little kelpie named "Westie" was rescued after it chased a sea lion four kilometers out to sea from a South Australia beach.




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Oregon town spooks sea lions with wacky waving inflatable tube men

Has Astoria finally found a way to drive away pinnipeds humanely?




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Map lovers and fans of national parks: Meet your new favorite website

National Park Maps website is a collection of iconic and useful maps from various national park locations.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Portland to fuel city vehicles with sewage fumes

Diesel trucks and other municipal vehicles in Portland, Oregon, will soon start filling up at a wastewater treatment plant.




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Showers in subway stations? LA Metro seeks to boost hygiene for city's homeless

As a growing number of homeless people take to Los Angeles' subway system, officials consider installing mobile showers and bathrooms at certain stations.




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Why Route 66 is on the list of America's most endangered places

The fabled highway's inclusion on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual most endangered list might come as a surprise .



  • Arts & Culture

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3 odd facts about the Venus, Jupiter alignment

The two brightest planets in the sky, Venus and Jupiter, will likely draw attention to the western sky as darkness falls this week.




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Planet Venus in daytime sky today

Venus is quite easy to see in a clear blue daylight sky, if you know exactly where to look, and if you can focus your eyes on it. What makes today's Venus appea




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Transit of Venus: Hubble telescope, Venus share the frame in dramatic photo

Photographing the historic Venus transit of the sun is special enough on its own, but one space photographer managed to get NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in the




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Troubled Japanese Venus probe set for 2015 comeback

After blowing its first chance to orbit Venus two years ago, Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft is ready for a comeback in 2015, mission scientists say.




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Some boys' brains may be wired to make them less empathetic

A new study has found structural brain differences that may account for callous-unemotional traits in boys.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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There's a way to know if someone slipped a drug in your drink

New products like the KnoNap may help keep women and men safe while they are drinking and socializing.



  • Protection & Safety

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Stop trying to find meaning in your kid's artwork

For many children, realism isn't really the objective, so we should probably stop looking for that in their art.



  • Arts & Culture

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Which is worse for you, a random bedtime or getting less sleep overall?

One study that looked at kids' sleep and behavior patterns might have missed the bigger picture. Another study looks at academic performance.




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Why meditation is better than detention

Some schools are trying meditation instead of detention for their students ... and it's working.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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NYC schools to embrace Meatless Monday

Meat will be off the menu on Mondays for over 1 million students who attend New York City public schools,




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Half-male, half-female butterfly emerges from cocoon at museum exhibit

The rare dual-sex butterfly astounded curators at the Natural History Museum in London.




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Sexual healing? British nursing home provides strippers, prostitutes

To provide complete care for its residents, Chaseley Trust, offers amenities such as a movie theater, a gymnasium and a pool table. And strippers.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Premature births linked to scarcity of men

ncreasing fathers' support during pregnancy may lower rates of premature babies and babies born too small.



  • Babies & Pregnancy

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CDC: Sexually transmitted diseases have become a severe epidemic

Treating the country's 110 million STDs comes with a price tag of $16.7 billion a year.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Same-sex marriage may improve public health

Cohabitating doesn't provide the same health benefits for gay couples that marriage does for straights.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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5 scientific reasons gay parents are awesome

On March 21, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced its support for gay marriage, as well as foster care and adoption rights for same-sex couples.




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5 key facts about the gay marriage cases before the Supreme Court

Here are the key facts about the cases and what's behind them.



  • Arts & Culture

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Same-sex marriage: 6 landmark cases that changed U.S. families

The same-sex marriage rulings by the Supreme Court are but the most recent in a long history of cases that reshaped the family structure.




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Long-distance relationships more meaningful than conventional ones, study finds

Research suggests that long-distance relationships encourage more communication and that couples try harder.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Sexual addiction not a 'real' mental disorder, study suggests

New research concludes that hypersexuality is not a neurological or physiological disorder, but just heightened libido.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Is sex after a heart attack safe? Women want to know

Women who have had heart attacks want more information than they're currently getting from their cardiologists in order to move on with their lives.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Roxy 'surf' ads show sex, not sport: Women protest

Videos and ads by Roxy for women's surfing gear and swimsuits anger female surfers.



  • Arts & Culture