Once upon a time a food company spent years in court defending itself against a government lawsuit about a marketing claim on their package that looked misleading.  The U.S. Federal Trade…

Global warming did once kill off a once-common species, but it was the transition from the last Ice Age to the current warming period, starting 15,000 years ago. That well-known species was the…

Glenlivet is staking its claim on young consumers who eat organic food from microwaveable pouches and might try whisky if pouring it and drinking weren't just so, you know, tedious. It has all the…

One map blows away the land use and desecration claim of the anti TMT protestors, the self-styled Ku Kiai Mauna (KKM), or “protectors”.   A map which has come to light shows that in 1901…

People eat more with friends and family than when dining alone and evolutionary psychologists have defied Occam's razor and come up with an unnecessarily complex explanation for why, speculation…

If you want to find the gay neighborhood in a new town, look for the tanning salons, according to a new analysis. Neighborhoods with high proportions of gay and bisexual men are twice as likely…

It's impossible to not know that there have been a rash of illnesses (and nearly two dozen deaths) that have been blamed on e-cigarettes. But while CDC continues to suggest the problem is nicotine…

A decade ago there was concern about a mass die-off of bees, and while they rebounded nicely, it shone a light on a problem that has occurred since recordkeeping of bees first began over a thousand…

On September 30th I noticed something that I had probably been aware of for some time but which perhaps hadn't struck home so pointedly because the articles were not all in bunches. I noticed most…

The imagery of the ideal housewife was just what it reads like, a convention fabricated by male-dominated urban advertising executives to sell stuff. Because it was an ideal, some women adopted it,…