• 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.

• The FDA just approved a new HIV drug that attacks the virus in a different way — great news for patients who have developed a resistance to current HIV drugs.

• Calling Supreme Court justices — women are just as likely to get abortions when it's illegal as they are when it's not.

• Breast cancer treatment differs between black and white women. No way!

• Prostate cancer is more likely to return in blacks than in whites.

• First borns have higher IQs? As a last born, i recent the implications.

• Like kids in a candy store, all of us are.

• Little girls are becoming less and less little these days.

• And once again, we have a health problem caused by environmental ills that some people like to pretend don't exist.

• Scientists refute studies that say black males naturally have more aggressive prostate cancer, blaming the issue on diagnosis and health care.

• Soda makes us fat? No way.

• 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?