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Via   livescience. Read more about the discovery of the boson   here.

After 30 years and 9 billion dollars, CERN scientists working with the LHC have finally  announced   the  discovery of the elusive Higgs boson. The sensitive instruments inside the LHC have experimentally detected a particle at an energy level around 126 GeV (which, in the world of subatomic particles, is a really big fatty), and the scientists over there are 99.99999% sure it's the fabled Higgs boson, as it behaves exactly as theoretically predicted. However, scientists are being understandably careful in calling it a "new boson" - just to be safe, until it's confirmed that it is indeed what they started out to discover in the first place. Heck, the discovery was so big, that Peter Higgs, the man who's given his name to this theoretical - well, not anymore - particle went up in tears when he  explained  just how amazed he was to see his theory proven within his lifetime. The large Hadron Collider - or as the scientists themselves call it: the l...

We all know there's a ton of stuff in our urban lives that make us fat. Fast food makes us fat and we know it. Drinking sugary sodas and fizzy drinks makes us fat. Every day new studies and magazine articles scare the confidence out of us with new results that slowly paint a picture in our heads: this fucking world wants to make us FAT by any means. Well, I'm here to shake that confidence a little bit more, unfortunately. Say you stay away from fats foods and sugary drinks already, and put lots of veg and fruit in your diet. Say you work out a couple of days a week and you think you're pretty much safe from random obesity. About the only unfit thing you do is the car ride to and back from work every day, so it's no surprise your reward yourself with a nice little downtime each day, say watching your favorite TV show. Nothing wrong could possibly go wrong and make you fat now, can it? WRONG. That's right fuckface - it's the only exercise you'll do a...

Wow - after today's Oreo  story , I didn't expect to see even more stupid people in the world today. But, that's the thing about idiots, they pop up everywhere. This time, the idiot is mainly a 38 year old American woman called Ebony Berry, who's under arrest for starving her 16 year old daughter to death. The story goes like this: the mother was obsessed by the teachings of one doctor Andrew Chung, a certified cardiologist who mixes medicine with scripture and advocates eating just two pounds of food a day. Ebony Berry, a friend of the doctor's, followed the doctor's recommendations and eventually led to the tragic death of her young daughter, Markea Blakeley-Berry - who weighed only 20 kilograms at  the time of her death! Berry is currently in prison, arrested on charges of murder, and has been visited by the "good doctor" in jail. So, who the hell is this doctor and what's up with his pro-hunger doctrine? Maybe the woman got it all ...

Hey. You know Oreos, right? The delicious sandwich cookie with a creamy filling from Kraft Foods that has been the number 1 selling cookie in the United States, as well as extremely popular in countries around the world? Yeah, that one. Bet you never thought people might have a reason to hate these little tasty bastards. But the world being the world, with ignorant idiots everywhere, this beloved cookie has become the target of hatred and boycott. Why? Kraft Foods, the manufacturers of Oreo cookies, have been faced with a   shitstorm   of backlash and bigotry after doing something otherwise ballsy for a food manufacturer: take a stand on the homosexual debate. Oreo posted a picture of a cookie that sandwiched multiple rainbow-colored fillings along with the text "Proudly supporting love!". I think what Oreo did was both awesome and risky. It's risky  because having an opinion on this very hot topic is a brave move, one that has the potential to s...