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Uh, it sucks getting sick. Here’s a bunch of gross ways that people can make you ill. Not for the squeamish.
http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/01/25/the-nine-grossest-things-other-people-do-that-can-make-you-sick.htm

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 [...]

We never thought we’d see the day that e-cards became anything more than corny substitutes for regular cards (which are already, in most cases, quite corny). While trying to dodge Obamaguration stories in yesterday’s New York Times, we ran across a fascinating article in the Health section on the growing trend of using e-cards to [...]

Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]

Ever since my series of Botox injections last spring I’ve felt much better about my appearance, but I always knew there was still something amiss about my face. This morning, via a New York Times article, the good people who brought me my beautiful Botox face (Allergan) made me realize just what was missing from [...]

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”?
So start [...]

Airborne disease season is upon us, so put on your SARS mask and don’t lick any subway poles. I’m pretty sure they cured Bird Flu, but just in case, peruse these disorders and ailments you can’t catch from kissing or anywhere else:
Premature Aging (as seen in Jack): Robin Williams’s titular character was born with a [...]

The manly men over at Asylum inform concerned readers and trashy food-eaters of some especially dangerous foods in this list of 15 Delicacies That Might Kill You. Strikingly, the list goes against the entrenched tradition of proving masculine superiority by vacuuming the most disgusting foods as though they were little more than baby carrots. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]

Leading proponents of the slideshow list format and new champions of germaphobes everywhere, Forbes brings us this scary list of microscopic holiday health risks. Informative though it may be, if we all abide by this list’s directives the holidays will simply not happen. Among the dangerous activities, objects and surfaces:

Shopping cart handles, meaning no massive [...]