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Image Source: PakTech Dear Pablo: I have recently seen a new kind of six-pack ring. It seems like it uses more material so I wonder what the environmental impact is. You have probably seen a packaging solution by PakTech that is growing in popularity among craft brewers. Likely, you’ve already seen their TwinPack handles when [...]

I hate to say it, but most people put down the weights that they are lifting just at the point where they are about to make some new breakthroughs. By breakthroughs I mean begin to reshape their body by pushing it to a point it hasn’t been before.  You see, the only real way to [...]

Photo: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust CuteOverload it’s not. This fellow is a newly identified cat-sized species called Durrell’s vontsira, found in the wetlands of Madagascar. This image is just one amazing shot in our roundup of the week in animal photos: We’ve also got news on a goose that, thanks to persistence, now has its [...]

Photo: Naskrecki/iLCP The pink-eyed leaf katydid shown here — found in the forest canopy of Papua New Guinea — is just one of the many brand-new additions to the animal kingdom this week: Scientists discovered more than 200 undiscovered species in that region; the Census of Marine Life reports 750,000 species of marine life that [...]

The US worker is paying an average of $482 extra this year for family health coverage, 14% more than last year, even though total premiums – including what employers contribute – only rose 3% to an average of $13,770 in 2010, according to a survey released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research [...]

Avatar’s Home Tree Initiative heading to six continents. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox James Cameron already planted one million trees in Brazil last April. But the director has said Earth needs at least a billion more trees — not a million, and he’s enlisting 15 more countries to follow his lead, including the U.S. [...]

Credit: VirtualErn via Flickr. If you want to reduce your chances of foodborne illness, go veggie. That’s one take away from a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report linking types of food to illness outbreaks in the U.S. Of course, you can’t blame the poultry or beef. And even vegetables can make you [...]

When women are ovulating they tend to buy sexier clothing to outdo rival females rather than to impress males, according to a study from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. The researchers reveal that ovulating women dress to impress during those few days each month when they are ovulating. What is ovulation? It [...]

The idea that a modern man who is modest and metrosexual has features women find attractive appears to be a myth, according to a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity. Researchers found that females see modesty and men’s feminine side as a big turn-off. The authors wrote that adherence [...]

Photo via Daily Mail, credit SWNS Everyone loves to get their back scratched. And for cows hard at work in dairy farms, a little rub against the “cow wash” goes a long way for getting cleaner both cleaner and calmer. The swinging brush stimulates blood circulation and improves milk production, while also relaxing the cows [...]