Monday Reads

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…

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Monday Reads

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,…

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Monday Reads

I have no problem eating meat or wearing leather as long as the animal’s population is not in danger and it is actually going to good use.  Killing tigers for social status, however, is not something I’m cool with. There is a science to flirting and nailing it will go further than looking hot. For…

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Monday Reads

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…

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Monday Reads

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…

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Monday Reads

The blood of horseshoe crabs is a beautiful shade of periwinkle.  Scientists are harvesting this pretty blue blood and it’s miraculous property of being able to identify and trap contamination in a given solution.  Considering these solutions could come in contact with human blood (as an injection, for instance) being able to confirm that solution…

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Monday Reads

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…

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Monday Reads

A new system in development will change the way we get onto the subway.  Bye bye metrocards! Coming of Age Day is a mass Japanese bar mitzvah of sorts. Sometimes I’m tempted to get out of my more traditional career path and become a personal assistant. I’ve always proudly used the Oxford comma.  My fellow…

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