Babble

OK, that's not true . But if you haven't seen this dopey show on Animal Planet, you're missing out on something very cute. Here are a few highlights: 1. Commentary: "It's going to be tough to impress the judges." True – because they're goldfish. "This is like a chess...

Usually when an athlete is accused of cheating, it's a doping issue: this year alone, at least four athletes have been caught using banned substances. But in Michael Phelps' case, there may be something else going on. Here's the deal, as reported in the New York Times: The race in which Phelps...

Dara Torres is 41, and Oksana Chusovitina is 33 (and saved her son from leukemia ), but they aren't even close to the oldest Olympic athletes in history, or even this year. Most aren't in the more physically strenuous events, but competing in anything at their age is pretty impressive. * Iain...

When I worked as a researcher for a documentary on neurogenetics, I interviewed several leading scientists working on ADHD. Each one had a different theory as to the genes responsible for ADHD, or in some cases, even what ADHD was, but off the record every single one of them said the same thing to me...