Though holidays aren’t often the time we try something new on the table, if one plans to entertain international guests, why not give them a taste of home with a little help from Confused.com. Via Confused.com. Feasting on infographics.

Oh, the office holiday party, so full of potential for disaster right when you least need it. To help you navigate these tricky waters, the fine minds at Grub Street offer up these helpful guidelines to make sure you still have a job come New Year’s. Full story at Grub Street via Bit Rebels. Just …

We in the West get plenty of grief for our vanity and the lengths (or depths) to which we’ll go to achieve the perfect look, but it looks like a certain kind of appearance enhancement is causing Middle Eastern men to flock to Paris for bigger and better…mustaches. Paris-based surgeon Pierre Bouhanna and Turkish plastic …

Scientists have unlocked details of the brain’s “pain map” for the hand, and say the findings may shed light on the processes at work in chronic pain. “The results reveal that pain can be finely mapped in the brain,” says lead author Flavia Mancini of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. “While …

Have a boy who desperately wants to take a stab at the sewing machine and a girl who dreams of driving the big rigs? Swedish company Top-Toy Group is tearing down the gender walls in their holiday catalog this year, reflecting the country’s emphasis on effecting gender neutrality. The catalog is just a start, though; …

One might think that cutting down a tree for purposes of holiday décor would be a no-no in environmental circles seeing that an artificial one can last for decades, but if you’re looking to decrease your carbon bootprint this holiday season, plant biologist Clint Springer, Ph.D says go for the real green. “At this time …

Even if you’ve already spent the big bucks on survival gear for the pending zombie apocalypse (tentatively scheduled for December 21st of this very year), as they say in the real estate world, it’s all about “Location, location, location.” Lucky for us (in California, Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Georgia) Hopper Travel has run a …

While talk of mincemeat pies might not set your tastebuds watering, there’s a certain nostalgic intrigue surrounding hot-buttered rum that just makes you want to curl up in front of a toasty fire and enjoy the pleasure that is butter in a cup (but not just butter, because that’s kind of weird). Luckily, Butter Bell …

Monkeys that eat leaves from a tree with estrogen-like compounds may care less about grooming and more about sex, new research shows. “It’s one of the first studies done in a natural setting providing evidence that plant chemicals can directly affect a wild primate’s physiology and behavior by acting on the endocrine system,” says study …

There are about 226,000 described marine species in the world but two to three times as many that remain undescribed, research suggests. “The entire ocean contains less than 300,000 species described to date and that includes everything from dolphins to worms to single-celled algae,” says Gustav Paulay, invertebrate curator at the Florida Museum of Natural …

If you take enough time to page through the old books on saints, you run across a few women who really kicked a little spiritual bootie for their time, but for worshipers of pop culture, an old, dusty tome just won’t do. HeyMonster has the answer in his developing series of modern patron saints of …

  The next time you go to grab a coffee in the morning, look around at the people in line waiting with you. Some may be in quiet conversation with a friend, or engaging the barista in the brew of the day; but, many will be head down and engrossed by their smartphones, and zombified …