Are you sick of hearing about Charlie Sheen? Tinted Sheen is a browser add-on for Firefox or Chrome that blocks mentions of Sheen as you go about your daily browsing.
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Almost 26 million people in the United States have diabetes.
Already dubbed America’s “stroke belt,” the southeastern U.S. just earned another dubious distinction as the nation’s “diabetes belt,” government researchers said Tuesday.
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Study finds no one is immune to the possibility of experiencing underemployment.
While unemployment has been a frequent topic of discussion during the recession, underemployment and its effects have not, even though the number of underemployed workers has also increased. A study published online last week in the Journal of Management, “‘I Have a Job, But…’ A Review of Underemployment,” by University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Frances M. McKee-Ryan and University of Alabama Assistant Professor Jaron Harvey brings attention to the topic and its potentially detrimental effects to individuals, organizations and society.
Continue reading… “Unemployment Rates Decline While Underemployment is on the Rise in the U.S.”
Women have never been happy about it, but now comparing female bodies to pieces of fruit has really gone pear-shaped.
Health experts are calling for an end to the labelling of bodies as apples and pears saying it dehumanises women and puts pressure on young girls to look a certain way.
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Study: Three-fifths of people eat their evening meal in front of their computer.
Rise in Britons swapping TV dinners for PC dinners, according to a survey showing how many people eat while using the computer. The study found three-fifths of people had settled down to eat their evening meal in front of a laptop or desktop.
95% of the people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.
Americans aren’t getting enough sleep, and technology may be the culprit.
In the National Sleep Foundation’s 2011 Sleep in America poll, out today, 95% of the 1,508 people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device — such as a TV, computer, video game or cellphone — within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.
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This Twitter virus is a quick one.
There is something amazing about how desperately humans want to see who has viewed their online profiles. This desire has been taken advantage of (again) by Twitter spammers as tweets like “WOW! You can see WHO VISITS your TWITTER profile. That’s cool! 🙂 – http://bit.ly/tweetviewer” and “I just viewed my TOP20 Profile STALKERS. I can’t believe my EX is still checking me every day” are proliferating this morning, at about 159 tweets a minute.
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Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors
Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound why. Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually transmitted diseases. Or perhaps the emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence.
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Luggage fees have prompted more passengers to carry-on their bags.
When airline passengers choose to carry their luggage onto a plane instead of checking it with an airline it may save them a few bucks in bag fees, but it’s costing taxpayers about a quarter-billion dollars a year.
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Social networking ranked as one of the most popular distractions while driving.
One in five Americans with a smartphone admits to using the internet while driving, with social networking ranking as one of the most popular distractions that’s taking eyes off the road.
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Armed rebels in Libya.
As angry populations roil one Middle Eastern regime after another, and discontent over escalating food prices and lagging living standards is heard elsewhere in the developing world, investors are moving staggering piles of cash out of emerging markets.
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Ecstasy tablets seized at the Belem International Airport in Belem.
The problem of so-called “designer drugs” is running out of control in many regions of the world, the U.N. global drugs watchdog said Wednesday. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said detailed instructions for how to make designer drugs, which are slightly altered to bypass existing control systems, are often shared via the Internet.
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