Lately I've been reading Dr Gabor Mate's book about the impact of stress on health, "When the Body Says No", and so my immediate thought was that taking on so much (and often self-sacrificing for others) cannot have good consequences in the long term. If many of these women end up becoming disabled in middle age as a…

I thought Gremlins was more hilarious than scary, especially after they took over the town.

Brad Pitt who? I'm sure you would get different responses if you asked about Robert Pattinson or Jennifer Lawrence or Daniel Radcliffe.

I've been in something of a bubble for the past year, so I seem to have missed this. Anyway, I clicked the play button and a minute later, my sides were in orbit.

Once again proving that while the New York Times is all the news that's fit to print, USA Today is all the news that never, ever should have seen the light of day.

This is the cutest thing ever. EVER.

The reason is because Facebook is where your parents go to obsess over every little thing you do, and complain if they are left out.

Who is going to support all the elderly if there aren't many young people? One child isn't even replacement fertility rate.

Homosexuality isn't illegal in Korea or China, though, even if it is socially frowned upon. What is happening though, is that Russia is becoming more theocratic, and I suspect a lot of the secular states are uncomfortable with that.

The rat is probably as happy as a slinky on an escalator.

I don't actually have a problem with polygamy, but I wonder if it's a good idea in a society where men and women are in roughly equal numbers for some men to have multiple wives, but women do not have multiple husbands. That could cause some serious social disharmony.

My lack of optimism makes the people who believe in Positive Thinking™ think poorly of me, but it never stopped me from achieving anything I could achieve on my own.

I laughed at the Upworthy one. So much exaggeration in those posts.

pa-pi-llo~~~~~~n!

The performance was actually not too bad. Of course, I like Lady Gaga — not enough to be part of her weird fan club, but still listen to her songs — so I might not be an unbiased source.

I'd say something about that being racist, but this:

There's really only one good product for a dieting relative that you hate and that is Haribo sugarless gummy candy, which comes with an explosive "surprise" a few hours later. http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Gummy-C…

Gangnam Style? More like GUN-nam Style, am I right?

If by relatively small, you mean one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, with a vibrant media culture...

Now, on the other hand, Singaporeans have an extraordinarily low birthrate. Which was referenced in this hilarious commercial last year: