LAST Tuesday, Connor Moran, a limit-the-red-meat, increase-the-greens, eat-salad-for-lunch kind of guy, stopped into a Bronx Dunkin’ Donuts for his usual black coffee, no sugar, no cream.
He walked out with a sandwich of egg and bacon between two halves of a glazed doughnut.
Such is the puzzle of the food industry: American consumers, even otherwise healthy ones, keep choosing caloric indulgences rather than healthy foods at fast-food restaurants.
The sound of small children chattering away as they learn to talk has always been considered cute — but not particularly sophisticated. However, research by a Newcastle University expert has shown that toddlers’ speech is far more advanced than previously understood.
Our perception of how food tastes is influenced by cutlery, research suggests.
June 17, 2013 — Insufficient sleep may contribute to weight gain and obesity by raising levels of a substance in the body that is a natural appetite stimulant, a new study finds. The results were presented today at The Endocrine Society’s 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
For its latest bit of street theater, “prank collective” Improv Everywhere has participants following the silly prompts of an omnipotent voice delivering commands via MP3 file.
How is it that a simple five-digit ZIP code provides any insight into who you are?
The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood—and made every movie feel the same.
The director of a massive new study says: “It’s almost everything.”
At first glance, the Apple iPad and Microsoft Surface RT tablet computer look somewhat similar. But the Surface RT has not sold well. Heres a theory why.
For his new book, Kaufman, a business adviser in Fort Collins, Colo., decided to teach himself a smorgasbord of skills in the course of one year: the ukulele, windsurfing, yoga, computer programming, a faster way of touch typing and the ancient Chinese board game, Go.