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19 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

Posted 04.20.2013 | Comedy

Relax man. Take it easy. Free your mind. And check out these 19 mind-blowing facts that are guaranteed to get you out of your head and help you get in...

The Half-life of Facts: An Interview with Samuel Arbesman

Phil Simon | Posted 06.04.2013 | Books
Phil Simon

While researching Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data, it became pretty obvious to me pretty quickly that we don't know nearly as much a...

The Lowdown on Lactose Intolerance: 10 Need-to-Knows

Posted 02.12.2013 | Healthy Living

There once was a time when all the milk you needed was provided daily at breakfast or suppertime, but times have changed and, as a busy adult, so have...

Expectations and Resolutions: A Mash-Off Between Faith, Facts and Fictions

Soul Dancer | Posted 03.08.2013 | Healthy Living
Soul Dancer

With 2013's arrival, much like a gardener using a shovel to prepare for planting (then one day, harvesting), I invite you to explore your faith, facts and fictions with the following questions (shovels) over the weeks and months ahead.

Reduce Stress: Upgrade Expectations to Agreements

Soul Dancer | Posted 02.27.2013 | Healthy Living
Soul Dancer

Take a moment now to ponder your definition of a fact. How do you accept something as a fact? Do you take time to verify (through first-hand experience) a fact before you accept a fact to be true? How often do you check facts?

13 Things You Don’t Know About Oprah’s Favorite Things

Posted 11.13.2012 | OWN

Oprah's Favorite Things for 2012 are coming to OWN -- and this year there's a twist! For the first time ever, you can be a part of the joy. This is yo...

Inside The Mind of a Whistleblower

Brian Penny | Posted 12.18.2012 | Politics
Brian Penny

I love being a whistleblower. I'm proud of it. When I wrote my last article about being a whistleblower, the response I received was overwhelming. Ma...

Is That Your Final Answer?

Soul Dancer | Posted 12.06.2012 | Politics
Soul Dancer

Have you heard these words before? "Is that your final answer?"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a spin-off of a game show originating in the United Ki...

10 Things To Know About Rum

Food Republic | Posted 11.14.2012 | Taste
Food Republic

The Rodney Dangerfield of spirits, rum, is rarely given its fair due. In the post-Hemingway world of serious drinkers, it's either maligned as super saccharine, or pigeonholed as a beachside one-trick-pony.

11 Weirdest Facts From Around The World

John Oldale | Posted 06.26.2012 | Books
John Oldale

Not a lot of people know how to turn back a Syrian war elephant in full implacable charge. Nor is it common knowledge that Liechtensteinian dentures used to glow in the dark. Yet there are some (well, me, mainly) who believe that such facts are eminently deserving of a more thorough airing.

The Secret Service Has Had Worse Weeks, And Other Facts Getting Lost in the Scandal

Death Race | Posted 06.19.2012 | Politics
Death Race

To faithfully execute his office, the president needs to be able to go where he needs to go, and do what he needs to do, without distractions. It's in the nation's interest for the machinery of the presidency to run efficiently. If the Secret Service upstages the president, it makes his job -- whatever it is -- harder.

Fact vs. Fiction: Vitamin Supplements

Posted 11.26.2011 | Healthy Living

By Abigail Cuffey for YouBeauty Some people pop a multivitamin daily (or at least when they remember to take it), while others religiously swallow ...

11 Myths You Thought Were True

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.12.2011 | Books

While Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" has seen to it that we no longer believe in goldfish with three-second memory spans or life-threatening quicks...

13 Things To Think About While Flying

Brian Clegg | Posted 11.15.2011 | Books
Brian Clegg

How can being 40,000 feet up in the sky, traveling at over 500 miles per hour, be anything other than amazing?

14 Facts From Reddit's 'Today I Learned'

Posted 11.09.2011 | Comedy

If you spend most of your time on the Internet surfing user-submitted aggregator site Reddit (and let's face it, why wouldn't you?), you've probably s...

Wisconsin: Four Facts You Need to Know

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sally Kohn

What's happening in Wisconsin isn't about budget deficits or government spending or even public employee benefits. It's class war, wherein the big business, conservative Right tries to pit working class Americans against one another.

Tax Cuts Vs. Unemployment

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Larry Beinhart

NEVER EVER LET THE FACTS MATTER TAX CUTS USUALLY LEAD TO HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT TAX INCREASES LEAD TO LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT Since 1950 we have had five tax...

The War on Intellectualism Pt. 2: Mainstream Media Madness

Waymon Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Waymon Hudson

What used to be a proud tradition of finding the facts, truth, and coming to an independent conclusion to inform the public has become a fractured, tabloid regurgitation of party spin and talking points.

Trust, Factchecking, and the News Media Landscape To Come

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Craig Newmark

Among news organizations, the successful survivors will be the ones that build a culture of trust, largely by checking facts, and not tolerating disinformation.

The Madding Crowd

Dick Heller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dick Heller

Trust the reasonable man at the helm. Don't deride him for calling things complicated. Let's quiet down, listen for the rational discussion, and let cooler heads prevail.

Time Magazine Fact Checks Fox News: No Jail Time For People Who Don't Buy Health Insurance

Time | Kate Pickert | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Fox News's Bill O'Reilly raked Coburn over the coals for his comment about the network. O'Reilly said no one had ever appeared on Fox News and told vi...

Have You Had Your "Information Debris " Today?

Caryl Rivers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Caryl Rivers

The beliefs held by "Truthers" and "Birthers" were culled not from mailings from extremist groups or the creepy websites of the lunatic fringe. They were discussed by the mainstream media.

Just the Facts, Ma'am

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

While important I refuse to call this meeting a "summit," since Democratic and Republican politicians squabbling simply does not reach the heights of two nuclear powers tensely sitting down to talk about missiles.

Our Own Facts

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gary Hart

Simply waving signs accusing the president of being a socialist or claiming our present predicament began after the last election neglects common sense, history, standard economic policies, and the facts.

Are you asking the right question?

Stefan Aschan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Stefan Aschan

If you change the meaning you give something, you can immediately change your emotions. Internal communication and the right questions can change your emotions and focus.