• The louder the music the more you drink.

• Vertical farming: the gardening of the future.

• How about we just watch out fat and calories and eat lots of fruits and veggies?

• If you're thinkin' about my baby it don't matter if you're black or white.

• The South leads our nation in obesity. This should probably come as no surprise.

• Are apes in a community of equals with humans? The Spanish Parliament thinks they (partially) are.

• Conveniently for the EPA, every human being is now worth $1 million less each than we used to be.

• OCD can be a secret to success.

• Double your weight loss with a food diary.

• A new study suggests that low-dose birth control pills could cause some side effects in black women.

• 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.

• The potency of the marijuana seized by federal law enforcement agencies in 2007 was more potent than it has been in 30 years. Do with that information what you will.

• Reports show that black children are at high risk for environmental asthma triggers.

• Children are being born in the U.S. with birth weights that are lower than they have been in the past 40 years. Related: More and more children are being born into poverty. Related: A mother's obesity puts newborns at risk.

• China leaves the U.S. in its carbon dioxide dust.

• More and more health officials are questioning why menthol is getting special treatment in a new bill banning flavored cigarettes.

• Blacks with diabetes undergo leg amputations at a far higher rate than whites with diabetes.

• Watch out for those uncooked tomatoes!

• Here are five body parts that human beings no longer need.

• Ever wonder why you're sarcastic? And how?

• Does obesity contribute to global warming?

• More black women are entering their reproductive years with diabetes.

• A new study on rectal cancer victims adds more evidence that blacks get less treatment and are more likely to die from cancer in the U.S.

• The Bush administration has decided to list polar bears as a "threatened" species without making any moves to improve the environmental factors that are causing the bears to be threatened or attempting to protect them in any way.

• To make matters worse for polar bears, they didn't make the top 10 smartest animals list.

• The earth is just like a peanut butter cup. Except, thanks to our misuse of it, it's melting.

• This woman is a lot smarter than me and does things for a living that I don't understand, but her work in the field of artificial intelligence will impact our lives in the future.

• This colossal squid has the biggest eyes in the animal world! Okay, that's all.

• Black women may overestimate the number of pre-cancer screenings test they've had, putting them at risk. This sounds like something all women probably do.

• "Even when their blood pressure is kept strictly under control with the best available medicine, African-American patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) continue to lose their kidney function over time, research led by a Johns Hopkins team shows."

• If a "stereoscopic atlas of the human body" sounds interesting to you, click here.

• Blacks lose more limbs than whites.

• Carbon dioxide and methane levels in the atmosphere are increasing. Oh, good.

• People who use medical marijuana are being denied organ transplants because of "drug use."

• Here are some stats on urinary incontinence in black and white women, in case you're interested. I tend to avoid thinking about the Depends aisle in the drug store.

• The bigger the brain, the longer you live.

• How do you feel about a anonymous TSA worker in a little box looking at your body with X-ray vision when you're going through security at the airport?

• Heisman Trophy-winner Hershel Walker comes clean about his battle with Multiple Personality Disorder.

• Researchers say that socio-economic and environmental inequalities aren't the only things that account for the higher mortality rate of black prostate and breast cancer sufferers than their white counterparts. It's also biological.

• Why (and how) we should all go green.

• Two men in Hawaii " think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole or something else that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe. Scientists say that is very unlikely — though they have done some checking just to make sure." Uh, how sure?

• African Americans make up nearly one-fifth of all U.S. diabetes patients, and the number is growing.

• Vytorin, one of the most popular cholesterol drugs, "doesn't prevent heart disease." Sounds promising.

• Blacks with a family history of colon cancer are less likely to get colonoscopies than their white counterparts.

• Twelve tips to live longer.

• Methane, one of the building blocks of living organisms, was found in the atmosphere of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers are "elated."

• If you want to be in constant fear of getting a stroke at the hair salon, read this report.

• CT scans are over-prescribed, expensive, and dangerous.

• White teens don't have a monopoly on tragic body image problems.

• While white woman are more likely to drink prior to pregnancy, black women are more likely to drink during pregnancy, which could account for the higher rate of fetal alcohol syndrome in the black community. Sigh.

• Black children are destined to snore. True story.

• Heart disease: a major issue for blacks across the diaspora.

• The EPA has made a modest change to the smog standard, despite an advisory's committee unanimously agreed that the standard should have been tightened considerably.

• How to explain the Gov. Spitzer sex scandal to kids that don't even know what sex is.

• Scientists believe the Grand Canyon to be 11 million years older than they had previously estimated.

• African American teens are at a higher risk for kidney damage even before they develop hypertension.

• A Nobel winner and her team have retracted a research paper after not being able to recreate their original findings. They're also being investigated for misconduct. Not so smart now, huh?

• "When Science Meets the Soul"

• Yet another reason to avoid Las Vegas: "The Southern Nevada Health District is in the process of notifying approximately 40,000 patients of a local medical clinic about potential exposure to hepatitis C…Apparently, patients who received anesthesia between March 2004 and January 11, 2008 at that particular center were exposed and should be tested immediately for hepatitis C as well as hepatitis B and HIV. The clinic has practiced unsafe injection practices and may have exposed patients to other patients' blood through procedures such as the re-use of syringes and using single dose vials on more than one patient."

• Black women are more likely to get migraines and less likely to get treatment for them.

• Did the Scientologists sponsor this study that concluded that anti-depressants don't work?

• Scientists are trying to figure out the high black infant mortality rate.

• For those of you who are still students, file this away under your list of bad-grade excuses.

• Japan is going to start to look a lot like a Will Smith movie soon.

• People are wary of partaking in genetic testing for fear insurance companies will use the findings against them. That's a pretty valid fear, I'd say.

• Blacks are more likely to die of lung disease and more likely to be removed from organ donor lists.

• Seattle, Wa., tops a list of the healthiest cities to live in.

• The FDA's approval of a controversial breast cancer drug has some health professionals worried that drug standards have lowered.