How many of you played with and adored your beautiful Barbie doll as a child? Barbie is known world-wide to be the choice of most female children as a play object and as such she serves as an example of beauty standards. The problem is that Barbie is not a realistic beauty standard. Researchers have revealed that Barbi… read more

The common options for those who are having trouble paying off their student loans is to use student loan forbearance or deferment, which, while both valid financial aid tools, may be an expensive mistake. Though at first these and other programs may seem like a blessing: immediate relief from financial hardship, but n… read more

For so long global warming was kept out of the news. Facts and research wasn't published and the terms “climate change” and “global warming” weren't used. They were considered taboo. Today however global warming is becoming an unavoidable reality and with CO2 emissions at an all time high in 2012 the media is … read more

In a stunning show of courage and a touching personal revelation Angelina Jolie shared with the public that she decided to have a double mastectomy in oder to help prevent the high risk she carries of getting breast cancer. She has a mutant form of a gene that makes it likely for her to get breast and ovarian cancer. T… read more

The now ubiquitous term "blog" was first used in the 1990s. What today is a massive and important form of self publication started out quite small...in fact, before blogging, there were several digital communities that allowed the creation of running conversations with threads so users could follow another person's wr… read more