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All you need to know about India’s elections are best learned through conversations around street food. In recent years, I have had many acquaintances be diagnosed with MS.  If you’re noticing the same, I recommend learning what the disease is all about. Including a middle initial in your name will make others perceive you as…

With this app you could pay $45 per month for unlimited java.  This will make caffeine addicted New Yorkers very very happy. Nearly 300 Nigerian girls have been kidnapped by an extreme Islamic sector that plans to sell them into slave marriages.  It’s awful that it took two weeks for this story to gain traction,…

These six people are making the world a better place. There is a drug that can save someone who is in the process of dying of a heroin overdose.  In New Jersey, the first life has been saved.  Will knowing about this “bail out” drug encourage addiction? 1 in 68 children are being diagnosed with…

Nobody wants to give the “useful” gift when creative and sentimental presents get all the oohs and ahhs.  It may not be flashy, but practical gifts are what people really want to receive. The BRCA gene has helped identify those at high risk for breast cancer, but now it may also help diagnose those who…

While men are immediately praised after helping out around the workplace, people rarely feel they owe the same debt to women.  Don’t worry about not receiving credit right away, gals; evidence shows lending a hand will greatly help your career in the long run. After 250 years, Crimea has broken up with Ukraine and become…

Abortion rates are at an all time low, but that seems to be because people are just getting pregnant less frequently thanks to contraceptive use. Move over mole people – this is probably the coolest thing to be done to old subway stations.  Can this please happen in NYC? I want to be in a…

From temperature to sleep, see this infographic to understand what contributes to your happiness. Esquire used a focus group of 1,000 to determine what makes men normal.  How do you stack up? Former mayor Michael Bloomberg is donating $53 million to restock the fish populations in Brazil, Chile, and the Philippines.  An effort like this…