Fantasy Football Week 3: Alt Bros In the Suburbs, Plus Nick Kroll's Week 3 Picks
Why we love watching grown men play a game based on grown men playing a game.
Fantasy Football Week 2: The Worst Time Ever to Have to Make Meaningless Picks
I'll tell you who to start and sit, but you need to make the moral choice to keep playing
What Classrooms Can Learn From the Google Campus
For the first time in a century, schools are getting a makeover
Fantasy Football Advice for Week 1 From The League's Paul Scheer
"Remember two things, no one wants to hear about your fantasy team and never trust your instincts," the comedian says
Pink Slime Is a Red Herring
While the public is getting confused by semantics, the U.S. meat industry is out of control
XKCD's "What If?": The Best Bathroom Book You Can Buy
A former NASA scientist answers questions like how best to build a Lego bridge from London to New York.
Fantasy Football Draft Advice: 4 Ways to Purposefully Mess With Your Leaguemates
They may not be sportsmanly, but they're not against the rules either: Ways to sabotage the fantasy draft for your friends
Fantasy Football Ate My Soul: The Draft Just Blew Me Away
I spent more time picking my fantasy football team's name than I did on my draft strategy, writes Elijah Wolfson
How Michael Brown's Story Made the News
Unlike police shootings in the past, the story of Michael Brown didn't take days to arrive
Ebola and Climate Change
Man-made climate change may be making outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases more common, and more devastating
Wrap This Around Your Brain
Wearable tech for your headspace could cure stress—and enable you to turn off lights with your mind
The 20-Year-Old Ebola Treatment That Could Save Kent Brantly
How blood transfusions may have saved seven Ebola patients 20 years ago
There's Money in Pollution
The maker of a Yankee Stadium deodorant hopes to save the world one spray at a time
Magnetic Cooling Will Put Your Refrigerator to Shame
A greener method of cooling is about to get very hot
Without a Key Obamacare Extension, 7 Million Americans Might Lose Their Health Care
An impending funding cutoff, if it occurs, may result in the closure of thousands of community health centers
Texas Republican Party Adopts Discredited 'Reparative Therapy' for Gays
The initiative to include support of conversion therapy on the GOP's platform was led by the Texas Eagle Forum, an influential pro-family organization
The Rise of Suburban Heroin Abuse
How the pharmaceutical industry has driven heroin deep into the suburbs
Take Two Herbs and Call Me in the Morning
China is spending billions to turn its traditional remedies into drugs, and topple Big Pharma
Climategate Revisited: New Theory Explains The Tree Ring Controversy
The tree-ring divergence problem, at the center of 2009's "Climategate," can be explained by normal changes in light intensity
Never Scared Straight
Doctors, therapists and legislators have come to bury gay conversion therapy
Ex-Ex-Gay Pride
Two decades after their heyday, conversion therapy advocacy groups are falling to pieces
The 751st Best Player in Baseball
Stephen Vogt has played like an All Star at every level — but might still be left off the Oakland A's 2014 roster
My Genes Did It!
Advances in genetic sciences are changing the way the law and society understand behavior
How Obamacare Could Fix America's Prisons
Proponents of the Affordable Care Act believe that it will lower rates of incarceration and recidivism, and save the country millions
Parting Is Such Tweet Sorrow
What happens when Twitter streams are eulogy and Facebook profiles are memorial sites.
Study Shows Coma Patients Can Recognize Familiar Faces
Tracking emotional brain activations can help single out patients with the best chance at responding to experimental treatments.
Waking the Dead
A new study finds that patients in a vegetative state can recognize familiar faces