• If doctors wouldn't take these drugs, we probably shouldn't either.

• A new federal report that many important people will completely ignore, "forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long-lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere."

• Triple negative breast cancer is rare, aggressive, difficult to treat, and most likely to strike younger black women. Sigh.

• When zoo animals need nursing homes.

• This is just so sad. And so, so stupid.

You'll recall that some people have problems mentally separating African-Americans from apes, and that that link can lead to some negative things for blacks, like imprisonment, slander and being killed. Now, black dogs have become entangled in a similar though more peculiar web, in which prejudice, color and the animal kingdom all coincide.

To the uninitiated, the idea seems so strange — doggie discrimination? But among those in animal rescue circles, the phenomenon is commonplace enough to have earned its own name: "black dog syndrome."

"There's not a lot of that type of statistics on many aspects of sheltering," says Kim Intino, the director of animal sheltering issues for the Humane Society of the United States. "But I think that every person that has worked in a shelter can attest that in shelters animals with black coats can be somewhat harder to adopt out — or to even get noticed."

No, this article isn't biting satire – we checked – but it could be. Take, for instance, what happens at some kennels when black dogs go unnoticed for too long: "they tie pink ribbons around the necks of the girls, and fasten big bow ties around the necks of the boys." Doggie bling! "In our kennels, the black dogs are all decked out," says the head of the Los Angeles SPCA. Who knew kennels had so much in common with rap videos?

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• So who are the geniuses putting mercury in mascara, and why is Minnesota the only state that has officially banned the practice?

• The executives at Starbucks just have one another high fives.

• I'll think about this previously undocumented species the next time I see a small-by-comparison rat in the subway.

• Mountain gorillas aren't the only ones losing their lives in the Congo.

• What not to do during the cold and flu season.

• Does anyone really believe these scam emails? Even when they're about puppies?

• Proof that community-based weight loss programs for kids work?

• In the poorest zip codes in the Memphis area, the infant mortality rate is higher than in some Third World countries.

• Simultaneously save the planet and improve your health? It's a nice idea…

• An oil spill in the San Francisco Bay that's killed dozens of animals will probably affect the surrounding wildlife for years.

• A two-headed turtle. That's all I have to say about that.

• My goodness, will someone just give this chimp a home, please?

• Every teenager on earth is buying their parents this guy's book for Christmas.

• Blacks and Latino diabetics are less likely than whites to have their blood sugar under control.

• The death rate from breast cancer continues to drop! But…blacks and Latinos have not benefited as much from the medical advances that contribute to the rate's decline.

• If they can do it, why can't we?

• If only the Incas knew…

• Here's the 8 millionth study trying to explain why breast cancer is deadlier in black women.

• And let's not forget about prostate cancer in men.

• But I thought global warming didn't exist?