Coffee, Beer, Wine and Chocolate May Become Extinct Due to Climate Change

Animals are not the only ones affected by climate change. Scientists say climate change can also make certain foods extinct. If the climate change phenomenon continues at its current pace, the world may soon live without some of its tastiest fare, such as chocolate, wine, beer, coffee, apple, rice, beans, seafood and guacamole. Research undertaken … Read more

Poll: Less Than Half of Recent Graduates Think College Was Worth It

With parasitic for-profit colleges, money-grubbing colleges, and the evil overlord that is Sallie Mae clouding the College Experience—not to mention the $1.3 trillion student loan debt—it’s not hard to imagine that a few customers alumni are less than satisfied with college. Approximately 30,000 graduates of four-year colleges in the U.S. were surveyed for the second … Read more

For The First Time College Students Are Smoking More Weed Than Cigarettes

Taking a college student’s mind off of their crushing student loan debt and probably jobless post-grad life is no easy task. According to the University of Michigan’s nationwide study, cigarettes just aren’t cutting it anymore as college students are smoking weed more than they’re smoking cigarettes for the first time in the study’s 34-year history. … Read more

Veganism Could Save More Than 8.1 Million Lives by 2050

Good news vegans! According to a new study, you might be saving a lot of lives! The Oxford University study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says that eating less meat and more fruit and veggies could prevent several million deaths by 2050. Research also points out that eating vegan could … Read more

This Interactive Graph Shows How Your Parents’ Career Choices End Up Affecting Yours

It seems like many of us follow in our parents’ footsteps when it comes to choosing a career, but in reality, how often does it actually happen? And if we don’t follow our parents into the same line of work, how do their occupations affect what we ultimately end up doing ourselves? Data scientists at … Read more

Eating Healthy During the Week But Bingeing on Weekends is Not OK for Your Gut

A relatively healthy but complex community is living together peacefully, until an unruly mob of hooligans begins unsettling the community’s residents and disturbing the peace every weekend. This scenario could be playing out in the human gut every time you go on a junk food binge. Yo-yoing between eating well during the week and bingeing on … Read more

Stephen Hawking Confirms the Next 100 Years on Earth Will Be Pretty Awful

If Wednesday’s news of a possible Pluto replacement planet had you feeling hopeful and excited about the future, then maybe you should simply chill for a moment. Earth, at least according to Stephen Hawking, is now poised to face the most difficult century in its history ahead of some vague but certainly inevitable doom. “From … Read more