In honor of the “high holiday” of April 20th–National Pot Smoking Day–here’s a clip from Saturday Night Live a few months ago when Michael Phelps was snapped with a bong. Regardless of your stance on the issue, Seth Myers is just damn funny. And so are the Keebler elves. Watch:

Today is 4/20, a.k.a. National Pot Smoking Day. Its exact origins aren’t known–some say it’s the time (4:20pm) that a group of California teens in 1971 met to toke up. Here are some fun 420 facts and myths from Snopes.com. And Huffington Post has done an in-depth look at the origins of 420. And High…

Stephen Hawking, the mathematician and physicist famous for his work on black holes, is reportedly hospitalized with a chest infection and is very seriously ill, according to the Associated Press.  Though I admit to understanding very little of his work, I admire Hawking very much.  He has devoted his life to finding a “unified theory,”…

What makes you choose one particular brand of cosmetics over another?  Price?  Scent?  Ability to soften hair and clear skin?  Similarity to what your mother used?  There are so many reasons–and a growing one is, “Will not kill me.” It’s a fine line between feeling paranoid that products are out to get you and getting…

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