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In case you haven't heard, Apple has a lot going on right now. There's the Apple Watch, for one, and a lot of new updates and features on top of that. But interestingly enough, the health app didn't get any lady-related updates, like period and fertility trackers. Luckily, apps related to periods, fertility, birth control and pregnancy do exist, you just have to download them. And they're...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians marched peacefully Sunday in over 50 cities around the country to demand President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and to criticize government corruption. The biggest protests were in Sao Paulo, an opposition stronghold where hundreds of thousands gathered on a main avenue, as well as in the capital city of Brasilia and in Rio de Janeiro....

When I learned that I could grow a vegetable in my dimly lit, teensy New York City apartment with just a Solo cup and a few seeds, I felt overwhelmed. I love vegetables. I eat them for breakfast. My friends once gave me a crudité platter for my birthday instead of a cake. The website StartAGarden let me take my love for vegetables to a new level. Catering to my specific living situation,...

We were nearing the end of dinner when the eminent personage leaned in my direction and began yelling at me. Up to that point, the argument among the five of us at the end of the long table at the restaurant had been heated but at a conversational volume. The fact that we were arguing at all was at least partly my fault. After all, I'd brought up the subject of Russia. Just before the...

Last week, The New York Times published an op-ed by psychiatrist Julie Holland called "Medicating Women's Feelings." I read it because I was hoping it was going to be a critique of how society has historically used psychiatry and pharmaceuticals to control women's bodies and behaviors. Unfortunately, it ended up being a bad lesson in biological determinism, stereotypes and oversimplification. There are sweeping...

Part 1 of 3: Disease Your hormones are the keys to vibrant health, and you can find any number of sources that will tell you that you need to fix or balance them. Whenever we set out to fix something, whether it is your body or your car, the first thing is to figure out what needs fixing. The three things that wreck your hormones are disease, age and stress. Understanding which you're dealing with is critical because...

Could the future of modern agriculture be found completely indoors? That's the question on the mind of Caleb Harper, the research scientist behind the CityFARM project of MIT Media Lab's City Science Initiative. On any given day on the fifth floor of the glass-walled Media Lab building, a team of 15 researchers led by Harper can be found operating the project's small indoor vertical farm....

When it comes to polarizing candy, licorice is at the top of the list. But whether you prefer red or black (or none at all), what is licorice, anyways? To answer this important question, we consulted Kelila Jaffe, Food Program Coordinator for the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Jaffe gave us the low-down on all things licorice and (spoiler...