It's impossible to rid your home of every possible inhalant that a teenager can abuse. But there are ways you can help prevent abuse at your house.

Cindy Gallop's new web site plans to change adult entertainment by paying real people to post videos of themselves getting it on.

Can meme theory explain the sometimes fatal desire to impersonate a piece of wood.

Websites abound to help candidates find eco-jobs.

How algae and mushrooms (but not sunflowers) can help clean up Fukushima.

Can the fourth-term president reconcile a deeply divided Venezuela?

The president of NTD-TV hopes to recreate the Jewish model for Chinese living in China and living in the Chinese Diaspora.

Wasteful federal spending on overpaid executives is wrong, whether it's for planet-murdering energy corporations, or on a network that airs free educational TV.

Is the time-honored gesture of the V-sign on its last legs?

A new search engine enables users to safely browse adult entertainment sites, preventing partners or parents from knowing exactly what's going on.

Considering the past and the future of the AK-47, which has caused more human death and misery than J Robert Oppenheimer's work on the atomic bomb.

Proponents of a macrobiotic lifestyle claim it can prevent and cure many diseases, but it can be fairly limiting. It can be hard to supply adequate amounts of minerals like calcium, iron and zinc, and omega-3 acids.

Technology is more reasonable than ever, and advice easier than ever to get, so people are innovating all the time, every day. This could transform how you treat employees.

Natural-cure advocates have long promoted a regimen meant to increase alkaline in the body--heavy on fruits and vegetables, light on meat, dairy, sugar, and grains--but this way of eating showed up on the radar only after a recent explosion of interest among A-list celebrities.

The success of War Horse -- two words that will for ever be attached in parentheses to Morpurgo's name, turning him from respected author into unlikely Hollywood darling. Another of his war stories is now a film. But don't expect the Spielberg treatment this time.

No generation has been more vilified than the baby boomers. When we were young and protesting against the Vietnam war and environmental degradation, pundits cast us as spoiled prima donnas. Then, in the 1980s, we morphed into hypocritical (but still narcissistic) Yuppies. Now, of course, we are "tonnage," a complete and utter drag on the economy.

A "humor" web site that degrades young girls is based on the idea that child abuse is just hilarious.

The real war is within the Islamic world itself, between those who favor modernity and those seeking to uphold the traditional social and religious order. And America provides a convenient target for modernization anxieties.

Voting is widely thought to be one of the most important things a person can do. But the reasons people give for why they vote (and why everyone else should too) are flawed, unconvincing, and sometimes even dangerous.

The one time you don't attack the safety net is when people are feeling squeezed and pessimistic about the future.