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Feeling blue? It's Facebook's fault

Feeling down? Happy? Angry? No matter how you're feeling, you can now blame it on your friends' most recent Facebook posts.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Facebook acquires virtual-reality company Oculus for $2 billion

The social network's acquisition of the makers of the Oculus Rift headset promises to change the way we experience online media.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Facebook reunites mom and daughter after 22 years

Years of futile searching didn't work, but a single Facebook plea connects the two women in less than 24 hours.




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What Facebook-like technology can teach us about the chimp civil war of 1971

Back in 1971, Jane Goodall observed a group of chimps break out in civil war. Now new social network analysis offers an explanation for this violent behavior.




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Oversharing Facebook friends just want to fit in

New research finds some surprising reasons that people air all of that drama on Facebook.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Was Facebook's manipulation of news feeds ethical?

Many of the social media network's users were outraged to learn they could've been unwitting participants in the study.




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No Facebook for 99 days? New initiative dares you to try

The '99 Days of Freedom' project has launched an experiment promoting happiness by helping users give up the social networking site.




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Signs that books are still alive and kicking

A Facebook meme and the resurgence of indie bookstores show that books are still important in our culture.



  • Arts & Culture

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Is meeting face-to-face with your Facebook friends really a smart idea?

One Australian is on a mission to have coffee, one-on-one, with each of his 1,088 Facebook friends. The question is, would you want to do that?




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Facebook's new Safety Check feature lets friends and family know you're OK after disaster strikes

The idea grew out of disaster message boards that sprung up on Facebook after Japan's most recent natural disaster.



  • Protection & Safety

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How you use Facebook offers clues to your personality

The number of updates you make a day, how often you use the 'like' button and even your photo album organization can tell your Facebook friends a lot about you.




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Mark Zuckerberg resolves to go big on books in 2015

The Facebook founder has vowed to read a book every other week in 2015.



  • Arts & Culture

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Why 'Photo Doggies For Anthony' is blowing up your Facebook feed

Have you noticed a plethora of puppies on your Facebook page? This is why people are posting them.




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Facebook knows you better than your friends

New research shows that just clicking the 'like' button reveals more about us than we realize.




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Facebook to issue Amber Alerts to help find missing kids

The social media giant has partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help get out the word when kids are in danger.



  • Protection & Safety

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What Facebook addiction looks like in the brain

For many Facebook users, the urge to like a kitten video or snoop on a high-school flame is almost irresistible.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Does Facebook shelter people from different opinions?

Many people today get their news via Facebook, but most probably give little thought to how the social media network filters the stories they see.




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Meet the dogs that rule Facebook

These cute canines are so popular that they're giving all those Internet-famous cats a run for their kibble.




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Mailman grants wish for boy without books

Man's Facebook plea goes viral as people from around the globe help stock boy's shelves.




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New carnivorous plant species found on Facebook

The huge 'magnificent sundew' was unknown to science until a scientist stumbled across its photo on Facebook.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Dead Facebook users could outnumber living users by 2098

This will create the world's largest virtual graveyard.




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5 books about economics and the environment

From cheap fashion to the billion-dollar trash trade, the following five books demonstrate some of the key connections between economic and natural systems.



  • Arts & Culture

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Will Facebook shut down for Earth Hour?

Probably not, but one enthusiast is organizing a petition to make the social networking site consider the idea.



  • Arts & Culture

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Offset your carbon 'bookprint'

Tree-friendly book lovers rejoice by planting trees for each book read.




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Buy this book: Power Trip by Amanda Little

Power Trip is a fascinating journey through our incredibly complex relationship with oil, energy and everything in between.




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8 highly gift-able design books for the holiday season

'Tis the season for Cabin Porn and 200-page treatises on Norwegian wood chopping technique.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Media Mayhem: Leaf through these books

In honor of Earth Day, our columnist reveals his 13 favorite eco-books.



  • Arts & Culture

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Ed Begley Jr.'s back with new book and third season of 'Living With Ed'

Ed Begley Jr.'s back with new book and third season of 'Living With Ed.' Green guru follows up his 2008 book with 'Guide to Sustainable Living' and takes his re



  • Arts & Culture

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Twitter-sourced 'Quakebook' hits Amazon.com

The 'Quakebook' project, a gripping Twitter-sourced charity eBook filled with first-hand accounts of life after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan




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Amazon: Kindle ebooks outselling print books

Amazon on Thursday said ebooks, or Kindle books, have begun outselling print books for the first time in the company’s history.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Humorist and 'Conan' writer reveals planet's future in new book

Among other things, Rob Kutner thinks we're on the verge of a new Ice Age.



  • Arts & Culture

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Libraries adopt eBooks

Digital check-outs are becoming an increasingly popular option.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Is the extinction of print cookbooks inevitable?

Cookbook sales are still strong, but as more cooks embrace websites and apps, cookbooks could be in danger of going the way of other print mediums.




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Today only: Anti-bullying ebooks for $1.99

Amazon honors National Bullying Prevention Month with a daily deal on two titles that help empower kids against bullies.



  • Protection & Safety

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Free and inexpensive Kindle eBook blogs

It's hard to sift through all the free cookbooks, home improvement and other books that Amazon offers for the Kindle for free - especially when many of them are




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5 spooky Halloween ebooks for kids

Scare up some family reading fun with these Halloween ebooks filled with ghosts, and goblins, and freaky Halloween legends.




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Tips for buying discounted Kindle cookbooks

A list of tips and sources of finding deeply discounted and free cookbooks for Kindle.




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Book Collections app organizes Kindle cookbooks

After amassing a collection of cookbooks and other book on her Kindle, our food blogger tries out the Book Collections app to organize them.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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5 Kindle books under $4 to buy with your eBooks antitrust settlement

You may have a credit in your Kindle account from a legal settlement that you probably didn't realize you were a part of. Time for a book shopping spree.




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What is Facebook Paper, and why will you use it?

In addition to providing a quick way to read your friends' updates, the app will include content will come from well-known publications and 'emerging voices.'



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Have you discovered Noisetrade for free digital cookbooks yet?

What started out as a free, legal music website (with optional tipping), has added free downloadable books to its offerings, including cookbooks.




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Is Amazon really opening up to 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores?

If the whispers about Amazon are true, the few independents still left should be afraid, very afraid.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Millennials' relationship with books and information

Millennials have grown up with gadgets, yet they are more likely than older adults to say that a lot of important info is not available on the Internet.




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5 eco-awesome Earth Day books for kids

Cuddle up with your favorite snuggle bunny and one of these great green reads to celebrate Earth Day with your family.




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New book sheds light on mountain caribou's fight against extinction

In 'Caribou Rainforest,' wildlife photographer David Moskowitz tracked elusive caribou through their rainforest habitat in the Pacific Northwest.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Book sheds new light on the hermit who shunned humanity for 27 years

In Stranger in the Woods, author Mike Finkel explores the famous Maine recluse Christopher Knight and why he stayed alone for 27 years.



  • Arts & Culture

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Why you like the smell of old books

A new study says historic smells are part of our 'cultural heritage' and should be saved to bring the past to life.



  • Arts & Culture

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Sharks get star treatment in beautiful new photography book

These feared and beloved predators are arriving on coffee tables, thanks to famed National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry.




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4 food books I want to read this summer

Wine and food lovers can travel vicariously through these 4 books that are more memoirs or essays with food as the focus.




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World's oldest 'comic book' boasts an all-woman cast, plenty of good vs. evil

"Psychomachia," a medieval epic poem, may be the first, and certainly most brutal, comic book.



  • Arts & Culture