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Toronto Humane Society Search Includes Discovery by the Ontario SPCA of a Dead Cat Hidden in the CeilingAlso found was "Kit-Kat", which hadn't been fed in nearly a week and had not received medication for mouth ulcers

A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.

Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails, an economist who thinks foreign aid hurts more than it helps, and a military theorist who believes the US should launch preemptive cyberattacks, right now. Then there's secretary of defense robert gates, who wants to win wars, not just prep for them. Risky? Sure. But this is no time to play it safe.

But buying those same products can have the opposite effect. Researchers found that buying green can lead people into less altruistic behaviour, and even make them more likely to steal and lie than after buying conventional products. Buying products that claim to be made with low environmental impact can set up “moral credentials” in people’s minds that give license to selfish or questionable behavior.

Pollan asked his readers to submit the food rules they live by, and over 2,500 responses later, he culled together 20 favorites. Some of the rules are more folks-isms than rules to live by, but most are actually kind of useful as motivational tools to help you stick with healthy habits.

A new study put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has ranked the ten foods that the FDA regulates which have caused the most foodborne illnesses. Noticeably absent from the list are meat products. The reason: this list only includes what the FDA regulates -- produce, seafood, eggs and dairy products. The USDA oversees meat, which is why it's not included on this list.

Google Street View is also available in the Ontario cities of Hamilton, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ottawa and Windsor, as well as Calgary, Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise in Alberta, Montreal and the surrounding area, Quebec City and Halifax.

Antioxidants are fast becoming the new superheroes of the health food movement.

Climate change threatens to turn the planet into a stormy, overheated mess: That much we know. But according to 28 leading scientists, greenhouse gas pollution is but one of nine environmental factors critical to humanity’s future. If their boundaries are stretched too far, Earth’s environment could be catastrophically altered — and three have already been broken, with several others soon to follow.

Author and Artist Ruby Roth’s That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians and All Living Things is one of the more challenging books I’ve read with my daughter.

A large iceberg is seen on the edge of a morning fog over Frobisher Bay, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic last month. MP Dennis Bevington, the NDP critic on Arctic sovereignty and northern issues, is accusing Harper of going “silent” in the face of U.S. “encroachment” on Canadian jurisdiction in the Beaufort Sea.Photograph by: Andy Clark, Reuters

You've probably seen all sorts of things proposed as good feedstocks for biofuel, but watermelons? That's what researchers writing in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels are saying (hat tip to Mongabay). They probably wouldn't work, without effort, as the sole feedstock, but could be used with other feedstocks:

Women buy a lot of gadgets, but it’s easy for us to feel invisible in the world of consumer electronics. Gadgets — not to mention gadget blogs — often seem overwhelmingly marketed towards males. And that’s too bad, because the electronics industry is missing a big opportunity.

(CBS)It could get a lot easier to reduce the amount of sugar in your diet, if some of America's biggest food companies are to be believed. Several giant food producers sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warning that the U.S. might "virtually run out of sugar" of the country didn't reduce import restrictions on the increasingly expensive commodity, according to a Wall Street Journal report $ Thursday.

It’s bad enough to hear a funky word in your day-to-day life, but what about when you’re trying to keep things sexy? You don’t want to say something icky when you’re naked. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of no-no words for once you’ve said “yes.” Let’s do it, down and dirty with 36 words you should never ever say ... in bed!

The morning routine for natural product aficionados could look something like this: after brushing their teeth with Tom's of Maine and moisturizing with Burt's Bees, they enjoy a Kashi bar washed down with Naked Juice.

Among the 55 of 162 studies that were included in the final analysis, there were a small number of differences in nutrition between organic and conventionally produced food but not large enough to be of any public health relevance, said study leader Dr Alan Dangour.

A study, conducted by the University of Helsinki, claims beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts, and a higher proportion of those children are girls. Scientists say this pattern has led to women becoming more beautiful over the generations.

Chains like IKEA have made it cool to buy things that don't tax your budget, but there's a hidden cost, Ellen Ruppel Shell explains in this excerpt from her new book "Cheap". Anyone concerned about the environment or workers in the Third World may not want to press for too many answers

The Bulwer-Lytton – a prize created in 1982 by a professor in the United States for the worst imagined openings to novels – has grown more interesting in recent years, as it has opened up various “genre” categories, such as bad detective fiction or bad historical fiction.