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When five teenagers sat down and posed for a picture at Copco Lake in 1982, they didn't plan on making it a tradition. But that's what it became.
Exercise confers huge health benefits, so why does it often feel like such a chore? Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman of Harvard explains the paradox.
CBS News polls Americans on how fatherhood has changed over the past 20 years
One factor: the world's largest eyewear company, the Italian firm Luxottica, controls a big chunk of the business
Google experimented this week with helium-filled balloons and sent them into the stratosphere to provide cheaper, and quicker internet access from the sky rather than over landlines.
Eyeballs contain a lot of nerve endings, but are also a prime area for bacterial infections including pink eye, chlamydia
There have been zero new federal gun policies passed. Data from Slate, @GunDeaths, and the FBI. Gun icons from Shutterstock. Photo: Flags on the National Mall, post-Newtown.
YouTube video shot/cut by Selina Miles for Ironlak Films showing graffiti artist Sofles spray painting a wall
Feeling unhappy? Learn how increasing your happiness is within your power, and how doing so directly influences your success.
Via Sandeep Gautam
"Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update", by Natalie Stewart: A free online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos about psychology - for students and professionals in the field. Read and subscribe free online at: http://paper.li/NattyStewart24/1327249950
Via Natalie Stewart
What America can learn from one of the most sustainable food nations on Earth.
Via Seth Dixon
The run-up in gold prices in recent years—from $800 an ounce in early 2009 to above $1,900 in the fall of 2011—had all the features of a bubble.
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National Geographic show "Brain Games" challenging what you think you know ... CBS News That's a theme of the program "Brain Games" on the National Geographic Channel, which uses experiments to challenge what we think we know about the brain.
As the men of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs reached further to the Moon, their spouses back home faced stresses and celebrity in an orbit all their own
Michael Dubin got his brush with fame with a viral video when he launched Dollar Shave Club from a Venice, Calif., warehouse
The answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete.
As part of our continuing series "On The Road," Steve Hartman meets a group of engineering students from the University of Maryland who are fighting funding gaps and gravity to find a way to make a human-powered helicopter fly.
Tonight on the CBS Evening News, Steve Hartman goes "On the Road" to Maryland where college students are close to achieving one of Leonardo da Vinci's dreams.
See full coverage Summer is a good season for reading, with all that time on the beach and being stuck in traffic on the way to the beach. But your book selection does not have to only be easy beach reading.
A researcher in New Zealand has examined the tiny toys' expressions. Most of them still look happy, but an increasing number look rather upset. He thinks that might not be good for children.
"The Coke bottle-shaped image encapsulates words attributed to graffiti artist Banksy which rant against the visual hegemony that advertisers have in public spaces. "The advertisers," says the poster, "have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked your permission..." ©
Via Leona Ungerer
For centuries we're fussing about what the our optimal work time is in every day life. In today's article, we explore why focusing on energy not time is smart. (from the article) One of the most unchanged elements of our life today is our optimal work time or how long we should work – generally, every person I’ve spoken to quotes me something close to 8 hours a day. And data seems to confirm that: The average American works 8.8 hours every day. At least, those are the official statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Via Barb Jemmott
The Feed compiles some of the week's best viral videos, including a "monkey" doing a tightrope walk, a pick-me-up after the Game of Thrones "Red Wedding" episode and a break dancing teen doing a head spin on a soda can.
In psych experiment majority of students couldn't go 24 hours without their cellphones; Is our love affair with technology making us more disconnected from people?
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