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We remember being really disappointed upon learning that astronauts who were in orbit for a long time had to work out or face a massive re-education process to strengthen their muscles upon returning to Earth’s gravitational surface. Running on a treadmill in a space shuttle seems like a such a dull way to stay fit, [...]

With our New Year’s resolutions falling to the wayside, we’re desperately holding onto our fitness regime. But we need some great pump-up moments to keep us on the treadmill sometimes, which is why we’re devoting this edition of our weekly sports listicle Sporty Saturdays to some of the best pump-up sequences ever created. Now arguably [...]

Those movie-going environmentalists over at TreeHugger have compiled a helpful listicle that could just as easily read “Top 5 Food Movies of 2008.” For the year that saw the new localism go global (”glocalism”?) and widespread awareness of what’s at stake in the shifting debates over how we produce and distribute our food, it makes [...]

It’s probably the most common New Year resolution and long hours at the office are probably the most oft-cited reason it gets abandoned by the end of January: getting fit. Well it just so happens that ABC News has developed its Office Six, which sounds kinky but is actually a set of very practical physical [...]

With 2009 upon us and its anticipated financial crises, meltdowns and other shorthands for disaster hogging the headlines, let’s not lose sight of that other crisis, the environmental one. Working out more and being more careful with money are great New Year resolutions for you, but what about the royal, interconnected, mutually dependent “us”?
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