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By now, many have heard about the undercover video of NPR's outgoing Senior Vice President for Development Ron Schiller railing against Tea Partiers and how NPR would be better off without public funding. But what most don't know is that the comments, particularly the funding talk, theaten to derail a new social media campaign NPR was planning to launch--one aimed at saving the very government funding Schiller said NPR could do without.

Dear EarthTalk : Isn’t it a waste that we buy water in plastic bottles when it is basically free out of our taps?

Wondering when's the best time of day to make a big decision? Forget the astrology charts and drink a cup of coffee—or four. You make better decisions when you have a full bladder, or so says a study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Mike Davis is taking over as executive director of the U.S. Golf Association without having to give up part of his old job that he loved the most — setting up golf courses for the U.S. Open.

Some of the nutrition information listed in government-mandated food labels will be repeated on package fronts under a new system that food makers and major grocers are introducing.