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I'm only posting this because I think this is what's wrong with today's news. Do we really need to be nosy, And prying into other people's lives.

Fat can be directly converted into muscle, scientists have discovered, raising new hope for overweight people.Now one team has shown how to promote the manufacture of "good" brown fat, so we can burn more calories, while a second team, another US team in Boston, has shown how brown fat and muscle are linked, suggesting ways to interconvert the two.

The House Judiciary Committee sent letters to a top former CIA official as well as two aides to Vice President Dick Cheney (including Scooter Libby) after a prominent author claimed that Cheney's office pushed the CIA to develop a phony letter linking Saddam Hussein to 9/11 to aid their argument for a preemptive strike on Iraq.

The Grammy Award-winning singer announced a plan Wednesday to give a digital copy of her album "Detours" to the first 50,000 people who register three friends to vote.

As prices for crude oil and other commodities ease, Americans have gotten a small dose of relief at the gas pump. But don't expect less pain at the grocery counter.Food inflation is to stay — and will probably get worse for some things.That's because retail prices for cereal, eggs, cheese and meat generally lag by several months

A Los Angeles County medical marijuana case, which most agree would never have seen a courtroom in Mendocino County, has raised questions on whether any limits imposed by the legislature to the Compassionate Use Act is constitutional. Last Wednesday the California Supreme Court unanimously agreed to hear the case of California vs Patrick Kelly.

The intro Cinematics to WotLK

Usain Bolt is criticized

A condemned house in Texas was sucked into a small wormhole,

Hosted by Daily Kos, Progress Now, and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, the Big Tent will be a 9,000-square foot, two-story erected structure a few blocks away from the Pepsi Center where the convention will be held. It will be specifically geared toward new media — bloggers, podcasters, vloggers— and its sponsors include both Google and Digg

Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every day of the week.

There is a lot of good behind the scenes stuff here of Tony Hawk and Shaun White. The talk about the Beginning and they have some amazing skateboarding footage!

Solazyme is the first company to produce algae diesel that meets US standards, but until today their production timeline was unknown.

After reviewing the more than 14,000 comments left by living human beings, the FTC yesterday amended its Telemarketing Sales Rule to ban most types of robotic telemarketing calls. By this December, any recorded calls will have to lead off with an automated opt-out option; by September 2009, telemarketers will need written permission to contact you.

In the nation's first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider fair use of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites. The

This guy does an amazing speedrun of Mario Bros 3! Good times.

Bryan, a lanky QB on the JV team walked into his family room to see his mom waiting for him with a vial and syringes. "Why are you taking steroids?" she demanded. "Mom," he said, "coaches tell us to get bigger, stronger, faster. They don't tell us how. They just tell us to do it." That's when she knew she had to take on the local football teams...

Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will effectively stop women from getting the disease.

Here's at least one reason WHY Michael Phelps is so dominating. With his arms outstretched, he's wider than he is tall.

At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch.