It’s not just girls, boys want to keep up with the latest trends too. We can use lessons from the workplace to help teens with homework. A new study found a link between degrading lyrics and teen sex. Teen obesity is just as deadly as teen smoking. R-rated movies are prompting teens to smoke. ...

What strange times we live in. A topic that’s been popping up on the radar recently is whether or not people should give up Facebook for Lent. For those unfamiliar, Lent is a Christian based forty day long period of fasting and prayer that occurs before Easter. Traditionally participants give ...

I came across an article in my Google Alerts titled, "Harvard study: Under-treatment of mental illness contributes to crime." Intrigued, I clicked on the link to read more of the article. Turns out the lede is: Two thirds of prisoners......

  Gizmodo has been spending too much time on Google, trying to figure out what idiots and teenagers and idiot teenagers are looking up on the internet search engine. The results, if you're feeling lucky, are after the jump... Our favorites, compiled by typing things like "How to" ...

TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, left distraught after a stranger spat on him at a tech conference in Munich, promised he'd take February off. Two days in, he's having a hard time leaving the Internet. First the voluble tech blogger, an opinionated chronicler of the obscurest of Web startups, an...

"Dr. Block says about 86 percent of Internet addicts have some other form of mental illness, but that unless a therapist is looking for it, Internet addiction is likely to be missed." By "other form of mental illness," we're guessing Asperger's sufferers like BitTorrent's not-so-adorably quirky foun...

I am an internet junkie. I am just letting that sink in for a moment, because I have come to realize that it’s true. It sounds silly, but when I spent my time off-line last week, I could clearly see the affect it was having on my life. I use the internet as a form of escape, much in the same w...

Yesterday I blogged about internet addiction (see here), but not everyone is buying it: Over the past few years, we've seen so many "calls" to label the use of certain technologies as "addictions" that we've noticed something of a... well... addiction by some to call for new tech...

If your compulsive urge to surf the internet, hammer out an email, or tip-tap a text message is starting to interfere with your daily activities, you might be glad (or not) to hear that you're facing addiction straight in the face. Forget that "texter's thumb" of yours, that need...

In previous entries, I've blogged about my husband's family who is staying with us until they can get the town of Port Arthur back up and running.  For the most part, it's been great.  I love the fact that they are here (so far) and everything has been going well except for the fact that the littl...