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Today is Eat What You Want Day, and it says a lot about our messed up relationship to food, nutrition and all things health-related that we need a special day to eat the things we otherwise won’t allow ourselves to eat. That being said, in the spirit of the day we’ll venture something beyond our [...]

With companies cutting back on full-time employees and office space, freelancer numbers sky-rocketing and home offices becoming extra bedrooms to be sublet, work will only become more mobile in 2009. That’s why we’ve devoted the year’s first edition of our weekly finance listicle, Big Money Mondays, to finding the best and most personalized item every [...]

From our backwards-looking year-end perspective, 2008 looks like it was all elections, Olympics, financial crises and Jokers. Although the scientific community flew under the radar while entertainment, politics, and the economy fused into one giant, indistinguishable headline-multiplying beast, some important things were discovered by our test tube-toting, lab-coated friends this year.
Incapable of figuring them all [...]

The unwavering optimists at Gawker remind us that when all the chips are down (and of no value because money markets like the chips market have collapsed), there are still a few growth sectors where jobs are to be had and kept. Some of their suggestions aren’t seriously viable, while others might make a nervous [...]