“For polar bears, profound obesity is a benign state,” says Eline Lorenzen, a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley. “We wanted to understand how they are able to cope with that.” “Polar bears have adapted genetically to a high fat diet that many people now impose on themselves,” says Rasmus Nielsen, of UC Berkeley’s …

Some covet a used car for its trade-in value, others just park it in an obvious lot with a For Sale sign, but Sweden’s PonyHans has made selling his Volvo into a performance piece.

Always dreamed of ditching the high-energy rat race and living off the grid, or at the very least, lessening your load on the grid we share?

This infographic from Vermont Law School is one place to start examining your options, from ideas on saving energy to making your own.

The demand for great graphics is huge today for all of the blogs, websites, social media sites and personal brands out there, but not everyone has the cash reserves to hire a professional graphic designer.

With sites like Canva, though, graphic design for the amateur crowd has never been more accessible, yet when you’re just starting out, a little advice can go a long way toward creating powerful and effective DIY designs.

If you’ve been trying to drive home the point that correlation does not equal causation, you can’t go wrong with the website Spurious Correlations, where you pick a category and then find what kind of crazy, unrelated statistic makes it looks like something funny is going on, such as margarine consumption and the divorce rate in Maine.

Toxic thoughts, people and situations can bog us down for years in a vicious cycle of bitterness, and in the midst of this stormy state of mind, it’s easy to forget that we have a choice in the matter.

Though it can take a long time to change our thinking habits, Angel Chernoff makes a number of excellent points in this article on six signs it’s time to let go of a relationship (or the memory of one) and start living a much more contented life.

We’ve had enough of women in science being minimized, so it’s time to reclaim the term and celebrate them with this set of minimalist posters by designer Hydrogene.

You may or may not have heard people and websites mention the debate raging over net neutrality, but if you’re reading this on the Internet, this debate does affect you.

To get a quick summary of the arguments, check out this quick video where Hank, the cable company, and Hank, the representative for the Internet debate the issue and give you the chance to have your voice heard.

Job hunting is almost as bad, if not worse, than the dating scene when it comes to getting a call back. You dress your best, put your strongest foot forward, fret about getting every little detail just right, then the phone stands there, silently mocking you with flagrant rejection.

Mashable’s Jennifer Parris takes a look at five reasons a company might not call you back and offers suggestions as to what you can do about it, but at the end of the day, like a date gone awry, the possibility is there that it simply wasn’t meant to be.

Stroll through any thrift store and there are tons of old picture frames just waiting to grace a wall again, but don’t worry if you don’t have a photograph or painting to fill the void.

Care2’s Becky Striepe has fourteen ideas for reusing old picture frames to scratch your DIY itch and spruce up your Pinterest page with original creations.

Planning a big night out when everything has to look just so?

Save a few bucks on a professional makeup artist and do it yourself with this infographic that covers everything from the achieving a killer manicure to contouring and highlighting tips for the whole face.

According to the CDC, every nine and a half minutes, someone in the U.S. is infected with HIV and out of every 6 people living with HIV, 1 is unaware that they are infected. While 34% of the people infected are between the ages of 16 and 29, the disease does not discriminate age, socioeconomic …