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A conversation with the senior business product manager of Google News.

Banning meat from one’s diet has been hailed as essential for everything from lowering cholesterol to lowering emissions. But, as the famed nutritionist explains, the vegetarian movement is not without […]

Contrary to popular belief, pets are entirely able to eat human food, even meat.

Some local districts are working to curb childhood obesity by showing that school lunches don’t have to consist of “chicken fingers and salty foods.” Will the government listen?

There is a wealth of evidence showing that salt helps to generate high blood pressure, which in turn spurs myriad other chronic diseases; yet salt is nearly inescapable in the […]

With such a wide range of foods that are being called “organic” today, a nutritionist reminds us what the standards for the term truly are.

Despite decades of scientific attempts to find something wrong with caffeine consumption, proof of any medical threat remains elusive. But that doesn’t mean its labeling isn’t deceptive.

Certain foods often become trumped as dietary “must-haves,” but as the nutritionist warns, these claims are motivated by marketing, not health.

A conversation with the New York University Professor of Nutrition.

As Newt Gingrich explains, if Republicans take over the House and the Senate, Obama will prove to be a cross between a “tone deaf” and ineffective Jimmy Carter and Lyndon […]

According to Newt Gingrich, the psychological impact of Ted Kennedy’s Senate chair being taken by a Republican incumbent will likely be as extreme for Democrats as the defeat of 1994.

Newt Gingrich explains why Scott Brown’s success illustrates the profound anxiety and unrest being provoked by the “Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine.”

As Newt Gingrich explains, the election of Scott Brown is a clear signal that the GOP is no longer “tone deaf” or isolated and is poised to penetrate blue-state strongholds […]

Your finger is farther from your nose than your brain. So when your finger touches your nose, why do both organs feel the sensation at the same time?

Carl Zimmer’s blog, “The Loom,” often features pictures of readers’ science tattoos. Is he hiding any himself?

From parasites that alter our brain chemistry to a deadly organism decimating Sudan, the “Parasite Rex” author introduces the creatures that make themselves at home in our bodies.

Science writer Carl Zimmer has had a species of tapeworm named after him. It’s an honor, he says, that almost everyone on earth could conceivably share.

Could deadly viruses’ rapid evolution be turned against them? And could we ever control the pace of our own evolution?

MIT students now generate their own strains of e coli for class projects. But synthetic biology is about to get a whole lot bigger.

Everyone knows we have hereditary viruses in our genome. What scientists are just learning is how many there are—and how many we’ve come to depend on.

Anytime the government gets involved with private sector activity, with economic activity, there is going to be a distortion of the market that can cause a problem.

Wallison says the Obama administration believes average Americans are too stupid to know what they should and shouldn’t buy.

Wallison notes that unregulated entities, like hedge funds, fared much better in the crisis.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac grew too big to fail thanks to policies made possible by a labyrinth of Beltway connections.

Wallison argues that it was we will never be able to eliminate moral hazard from banking simply because the banks are backed by the government.

A conversation with the financial policy fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Comics, being one of the most democratic art forms around, have long been a powerful agent for social change, so why is the medium becoming so dry and complacent in […]

Kupperman advises having other skills to fall back on since the industry barely rewards talent.

Kupperman’s unusual height made him conspicuous to the point of discomfort.