Some goodbyes are painful. Others are a joyous occasion as we relinquish the past and embrace the future. For designer John Patrick, "the future is now" as we bid a joyous adieu to "Robofashion" - his term for cookie-cutter styles.

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He may not be teacher's pet, but New York artist Michael Scroggins is certainly the darling of the art world with his torn out line paper renderings of below average math work, graded by instructors seemingly aggravated by his carelessness.

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Although the superior nutrition of the raw almond is well-known, true raw almonds are getting a lot harder to find. The reason? California - the largest almond grower in the country - passed a 2007 law requiring almond pasteurization. (A little history: ...Read More

If you're worried about how the typical American diet may be affecting your health and would like to investigate traditional diets from statistically healthy cultures, Oldways is a great place to begin. Think Slow Food combined with a particularly enlightened dietician.

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Bean bags make me nostalgic for something. Perhaps for childhood sleep-overs or pillow fights - or even just the sense of curling into a deep, textured pillow with no cares in mind. 

Snuggling into a bean bag adds a sense of playfulness to lounging around. It's wonderful to "take it down a notch" by sinking into these ...Read More

If only that picture of grazing cattle represented the norm.

Two-and-a-half years in the making and 124 pages long, the final report by the Pew Commission in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University - Putting Meat on The Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America ...Read More

As the world's environmental problems continue to make themselves abundantly known, we find more and more innovative new ways to tackle them.

That's quite a story - yet apparently, there are more important things to cover than the state of the planet. A recently published study by the

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We all have that pair of jeans that we just can’t bear to part with. As each day passes, our fondness grows, as do the gaping holes in the knees, bum, and inseam, which we naturally attempt to ignore in an unsuccessful bout of denial. We start devising all sorts of schemes to continue the legacy of our tattered denim - scouring the racks and ...Read More