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Today, President Obama unveiled his $3.8 trillion 2013 budget proposal for the federal government.

Crickets make a big contribution to the sounds of a summer night. And they’ve been doing so for some 165 million years

Apple's foray into retail was supposed to be a disaster. "I give them two years before they're turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake," one critic infamously said in 2001, a comment that would prove slightly prescient considering the number of brick-and-mortar stores that would shutter in the years to come--Gateway, Circuit City, CompUSA

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Artist's conception of ExoMars mission, from which NASA has withdrawn.

As a psychologist, I have always found the concept of speed dating fascinating.

Social media is a great way to promote your business but spending too much time connecting online can burn you out. Here's how to get your spark back. One of the best things about being an avid reader is that moment you stumble across a phrase that clearly describes something you've experienced but didn't previously have the words for

Meet David Gensler, whose Brooklyn clothing company Serum Versus Venom advocates a return to craft. Read on to learn about the value of a well-made belt, what would've happened if Picasso had tweeted, and how Jay-Z could be the next Oprah

EL HIGUERON, Peru – Carlos Cruz Chanta lives just off a rutted dirt road, almost lost in the mist, outside this village on a steep ridge of jungle-covered mountains. Like his neighbors, he makes his living raising livestock and growing corn, fruit, beans, and coffee.

Chimpanzees have a bad reputation. Maybe it’s because humans have a thing about wanting to feel unique among primates. Some have argued that humans are the only species that truly behaves altruistically, the only species that actively helps out other individuals even when there is no direct benefit

To the ancient Mayans, it was the food of the gods. Nineteenth-century Cubans used it as an aphrodisiac. In the 20th century American culinary authority Fannie Farmer recommended its “stimulating effect” for “cases of enfeebled digestion.” Throughout history people have prized cocoa--the defining ingredient of chocolate--a tradition that endures in our modern era.

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It is often argued that more lore attaches to chocolate than to any other human consumable except wine. As the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa wrote: “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolate.” In the February issue of Scientific American, Harold Schmitz and Howard-Yana Shapiro of Mars, Incorporated, report on the future of chocolate, given the threats to the fragile cacao tree whose seeds provide the cocoa ingredients from which all chocolate products are made. Below is a timeline documenting some of the many uses of chocolate through the ages