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Meet your new hero! My friend Staci, or Spezzy as she's known around the Nerd Fitness community, has one of the best transformations I've ever seen: Working a sedentary desk job, Staci slowly packed on weight and ate like a typical unhealthy American. She also smoked a pack of cigarettes a day.

Cardinals are usually associated with the bright red color of their feathers, but a couple in Illinois say a yellow version of the bird hangs out in their backyard. Chelsea Curry told CBS News she first saw the yellow cardinal at her backyard bird feeder last year.

Nov 27 2017 The grapes used to make DO Lanzarote wines are cultivated in a singular manner, yielding equally unique wines, particularly those made from the predominant white Malvasía Volcánica grapes. It takes less than thirty minutes to drive this wine route from start to finish, but we recommend taking your time to savor each and every stop along the way.

Pufferfish release a toxin when they puff out that is meant to impair the attacker. This doesn’t work on Dolphins in the same way. It gets them high. So they purposely inflate them and pass them around to their dolphin friends for fun.

A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence. Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there's more going on in their strange little brains than we knew.

"Why is Narcan free to a dope addict but my insulin is $750 a month?" asks an online meme that has since gone viral. "Humalog cost $21 a vial in 1996 and now that same insulin is $375" claims another meme designed to call for price regulations.

Gabon's opposition says it was cheated of victory, after official results showed a turnout of 99.93% in President Ali Bongo's home region, with 95% of votes in his favour. Elizabeth Blunt has witnessed many elections across Africa, as both a BBC journalist and election observer and looks at six signs of possible election rigging.

Authored by Joshua Hochschild via AmericanMind.org, Let's say you've long been disaffected with political parties. You don't trust them. You care about politics, but you don't see much promise in the standard candidates. Let's even say you have suspicions the two parties are more interested in their own power than in helping the country.