#Appetite

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think The study examined the dietary choices of students who were asked to begin regular workouts over a 15-week period. Although students were asked not to significantly change their diets, most began choosing healthier foods. Interestingly, the types of

Author: Christina Downey / Source: Big Think Each new year, people vow to put an end to self-destructive habits like smoking, overeating or overspending. And how many times have we learned of someone – a celebrity, a friend or a loved one – who committed some self-destructive act that seemed to

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News With temperatures creeping up as the climate warms, those very hungry caterpillars could get even hungrier, and more abundant. Crop losses to pests may grow. Insects will be “eating more of our lunch,” says Curtis Deutsch of the University of

Source: Good News Network Most of our to-do lists consist of pretty innocuous things like “go to the grocery store” and “do the laundry” – but what would be written on the to-do list of a genius? A genius like, say, Leonardo da Vinci? According to historian and author Toby Lester, da Vinci did

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura The year 1903 was a bad one for oysters—or, rather, it was an unsavory time for the New York gourmands who craved heaping piles of goodly mollusks. In February of that year, from his float at the base of Gansevoort Street, which runs straight