"Is Your Jury Biased Against Fat People?"

A study shows bias mostly coming from male jurors against fat women .

"More intelligence and fewer offspring?"

"Perhaps Idiocracy was stating a more general rule...." But another thing... When it comes to humans, for example, though our bra...

"A revolution has begun against the perception of beauty in Israel..."

"...  this law shatters the anorexic ideal serving as an example for the country’s youth." The new law, known as the “photoshop la...

How bad is fat?

12 reasons why it's complicated.

"15 Things Overachievers Do."

Penelope Trunk's list is — in typical Trunk style — highly provocative, full of surprising details and counterintuitiveness. 2. They us...

"Should Santa Claus still be fat?"

"Santa is a role model, and kids don't want to have a role model that's fat." Kids don't want? Has any kid ever compl...

Why are you fat?

Barbara Walters asks Chris Christie. He doesn't know why, and if he could figure out why, he'd fix it. Then he says it doesn't m...

"After decades of rising childhood obesity rates, several American cities are reporting their first declines...."

"Researchers say they are not sure what is behind the declines." Though obesity is now part of the national conversation, with agg...

"[T]he reason shoes are especially appealing is that unlike dresses, jackets, or sweaters, they still fit if you gain ten pounds."

"At least, that’s my conclusion as to why women are crazy about shoes," says Instapundit , claiming authority as a former shoe sal...

Sperm decline...

... in France. Prof Richard Sharpe, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "Something in our modern lifestyle, diet or environment lik...

"In the name of equality, the French government has proposed doing away with homework in elementary and junior high school."

"French President Francois Hollande argues that homework penalizes children with difficult home situations, but even the people whom th...

If the airline "managed to get her over there," was it "obligated to get her home"?

So says the lawyer for an obese woman who died after the airline could not get her onto a plane in Hungary. They spent several relaxing week...

"[T]he hypocrisy of pillorying a guy for using his employer’s equipment to grow marijuana..."

"... while his employer offers training in how to create a pair of substances — including one with its own mind-altering properties — t...

"But people love badgers."

"This is not a campaign against some kind of airborne creepy-crawly, spreading disease as it feeds on the blood of poor, innocent cows....

"All Stephanie [Cutter] wants is results."

"She is an old-school, take-no-prisoners political operative. Losing is not tolerated." In her role as Mrs. Obama’s chief of staff...

Michelle Obama's DNC speech made us think about her speech pleading for the 2016 Olympics in Chicago.

As in her speech last night, there's a misplaced emotionality that's too much about her family's personal need for gratification...

"Ugh: really torn about which presidential ticket to vote for based on body fat percentage."

Ugh: really torn about which presidential ticket to vote for based on body fat percentage. — Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) August 21,...

Paul Ryan shirtless.

The headline "Top Ryan Google searches: 'vice president,' 'shirtless" made me skeptical. What about the other Ryan — ...

45% of the monks in Thailand are obese.

They're eating what they collect from the public, but the alms-givers are giving them fattening things, apparently.

Add years to your life: Eat 600 calories a day.

"The bottom line is that it is the only thing that's ever really been shown to prolong life... Ultimately, ageing is a product of a...