Life & Style

How Food Impacts Your Mood After 30
00:10 2017-12-19

And it has nothing to do with your waistline. It’s common knowledge that people need to switch up their diets with every passing year as slowing metabolisms make it harder to enjoy pizza and cookies without gaining weight. But new research indicates that your adult self might react very differently to certain foods compared with …

10 Morning Habits Destroying Your Productivity
23:36 2017-12-18

Fact: The way you spend your morning is critical to how well you perform the rest of the day. That first hour—even the first few minutes—set the day’s tone, and if you have bad habits (or simply no habits at all), you’ll find yourself burning precious hours, wasting time, needlessly stressing, and ultimately derailing your …

How Lean People Eat Every Holiday Season
23:01 2017-12-18

We all pack on some pounds over the holiday season. Studies disagree on the exact number—it varies anywhere from an easily manageable one or two all the way up to ten—but there’s one consensus: Over the five weeks from Thanksgiving to January 1st, you’re all but certain to walk away with some extra padding. That …

Why 2018 Could Be the Year Tourists Finally Get to Space
21:06 2017-12-18

For a lot of kids, and for some fully grown adults, it’s the ultimate dream: going to space. Until now, that ability has been restricted to mostly astronauts. But that could all change soon. Private companies have toyed with the idea of launching paying customers into orbit for years. Only recently, though, have some of …

This Is the Real Reason the White House Is White
17:35 2017-12-18

The “White House”—the term is both a name and a descriptor. The president’s home wasn’t built with that name or color though. You might have heard that the building was painted white to cover up burn marks when British soldiers tried to destroy it during the War of 1812, but its color actually predates that …