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New study has good news and bad news about teen sexual health

New survey compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds condom use is up, but teen sexual behavior has not changed over the last decade, mea



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Sexual healing? British nursing home provides strippers, prostitutes

To provide complete care for its residents, Chaseley Trust, offers amenities such as a movie theater, a gymnasium and a pool table. And strippers.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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CDC: Sexually transmitted diseases have become a severe epidemic

Treating the country's 110 million STDs comes with a price tag of $16.7 billion a year.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Sexual addiction not a 'real' mental disorder, study suggests

New research concludes that hypersexuality is not a neurological or physiological disorder, but just heightened libido.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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The USDA's sunny GMO labels don't shine enough light on actual ingredients

The new USDA label for "bioengineered food" doesn't answer basic questions that some shoppers will have about genetically modified foods.




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Cybersickness: A virtual bummer

Video: Is a trip to the 3-D movies making you sick?



  • Arts & Culture

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Building Rome in a day with virtual reality maps

Team at Seattle university is creating largest 3-D reconstruction that anyone has ever attempted, rebuilding the world one pixel at a time.




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What does your virtual self have to do with the real world?

Your avatar may be just a virtual identity, but it can also affect how you are in the real world.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Babies prefer to interact with pro-social individuals

Babies are oriented towards pro-social individuals. They prefer interacting with a pro-social individual over an anti-social individual.



  • Babies & Pregnancy

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Animals gather for annual blessings in Los Angeles

The annual Olvera Street blessing of the animals was held on March 31 in Los Angeles.




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Livestream the 1st annual Food Tank Summit

Anyone can watch online and participate through social media in this two-day event featuring more than 75 speakers in the food and agriculture realms.




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Visualize nuclear power and radiation

These maps, graphs and charts will answer your questions about radiation exposure and nuclear energy.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Unusually popular Thanksgiving foods reveal America's love of non-dairy whipped topping

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.




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An egg that monitors air quality goes online around the world

The Air Quality Egg was named one of Kickstarter's best projects of 2012.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Absurd Korean pop hit 'Gangnam Style' actually a subversive critique of consumerism

Could we be witnessing Korean pop's plunge into the cultural criticism arena?



  • Arts & Culture

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Clothes dryers added to list of Energy Star-qualifying appliances

Congratulations, washing machine, your lonely days are now over as clothes dryers have become, at long last, eligible for Energy Star certification.




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Dolphin deathtoll: Feds declare 'unusual mortality event' on East Coast

The NOAA suspects the infectious morbillivirus is responsible for the unusually high number of dolphin strandings and deaths this month.




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Think air quality doesn't matter? Look at Pittsburgh in the 1940s

Before clean air laws were passed in Pittsburgh, smoke left buildings in a nighttime shroud all day, yet air quality issues aren't really in the past.




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11 surprising facts about indoor air quality [Infographic]

Many American likely aren't aware that the air in their homes and offices may be cause for concern.




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Rare weather phenomenon triggers air-quality alerts in D.C.

A 'capped inversion' trapped air pollutants near the ground.



  • Climate & Weather

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How California's improving air quality is putting a dent in the region's dangerous fog

Falling levels of air pollution have resulted in a drop in California's dense tule fog.



  • Climate & Weather

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Why some stress is actually good for you

We often hear about the negative impacts of stress, but some stress is necessary — and even healthy.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Winscape: Virtual reality windows are here

Who needs nature when you can have virtual reality windows that simulate any setting with the flick of an iPhone app?



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Conceptual faucet turns ordinary tap water into magical, swirling vortex

The Swirl Faucet also saves water, so long as you aren't completely beguiled by its beauty.



  • Remodeling & Design

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The power of unusual animal friendships

Studying odd couple animal friendships can help researchers learn what goes into normal human relationships.




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Global warming? Some say Arctic is actually cooling

An article based upon a leaked report says that Arctic sea ice is up 60%. But is it true?



  • Climate & Weather

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How to make a to-do list that actually gets done

Looking to check things off your to-do list? Start with a little math.



  • Research & Innovations

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7 reasons to consider indoor air-quality testing

Indoor air pollutants are all around us, from radon and rodents to VOCs and NO2.



  • Protection & Safety

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Hardwood flooring that zaps unwanted odors, improves indoor air quality

Feeling wheezy after buying a new sofa? Struggling with cat pee smell? Not to worry, your air-purifying hardwood flooring should take care of it.




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15 houseplants for improving indoor air quality

NASA studied houseplants as a way to purify the air in space facilities, here are the plants that improve your indoor air quality best.




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IKEA to pay American employees actual living wages starting in 2015

The blue- and yellow-clad home furnishings behemoth plans to add 17 percent more green to the paychecks of employees who earn minimum wage.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Equal pay for equal work: How do we get it?

Massachusetts has a plan.




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Indian designer creates Braille Phone, a smartphone for the visually impaired

Imagine a smartphone for the visually impaired that has the tools most sighted smartphone users have come to take for granted




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10 qualities of great community leaders [Infographic]

It takes more than just dedication and intelligence to be a pillar of the community.




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Why the Paris climate talks might actually work

The U.N. summit is going on despite recent terrorist attacks, and it does so with diplomatic momentum as well as a renewed sense of global solidarity.



  • Climate & Weather

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Would you live in an actual company town?

Would you live in Facebookville? The company's $120 million housing community might just bring the old “company town” concept back into fashion.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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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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Revolutionary new drug might actually reverse aging

A protein complex has been shown to repair DNA damage caused by radiation or old age.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Internet Explorer launches the virtual Carbon Grove

Get daily reminders about your carbon footprint and IE will plant a tree of your choice.




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BMW's self-driving vision includes a virtual butler

BMW Vision Next 100




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Oas1s offers the finest in treehouse living without actually living in a tree

It's a little bit Ewokian, a little bit New Urbanist and a whole lot intriguing.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Eden Paper: Beautiful gift wrap that you can plant and, eventually, eat

After you've furiously torn through your holiday prezzies, plant Eden Paper gift wrap it in the backyard where it will grow into a patch of veggies.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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10 stocking stuffers for home cooks (that will actually get used)

Looking for stocking stuffer ideas for your favorite home cooks? Here are some suggestions for super useful tools that they’ll love.




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Media Mayhem: Our media columnist's first annual 'Hot' or 'Not' list

What do Michael Pollan, Marc Morano, Lisa P. Jackson, nuclear energy and the climate have in common?




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Playboy is no longer a nudie mag. (Now you can actually read it!)

For readers, it's great news that Playboy is getting rid of the naked photos.



  • Arts & Culture

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Your virtual carbon footprint may be bigger than you think

Your virtual carbon footprint may be bigger than you think. You telecommute, while your friends idle in stop-and-go traffic on the way to work, but don’t feel




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Visualight: A LED for every mood (and email)

Meet Visualight, a WiFi-enabled LED bulb that visualizes data as colored light. In other words, when a recent crush messages you on Facebook, the lights in your




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Designer Vivienne Westwood opts for quality over quantity

"Buy less, choose well, make it last," says the iconic designer.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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Going cashless is easy — if you actually have some

It is one thing to go cashless, and it is altogether another thing to have no money.




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Most insects can't recognize individual faces, but these wasps can

New research suggests paper wasps use facial recognition to work better alongside one another.