Jigsaw escaped from a notoriously awful hog farm when he was just a baby. He ran away and was found by a kind person who took him to the Idaho Humane Society where they treated him for malnourishment and pneumonia. There he learned to love humans and to get along with all kinds of animals. […]

By Mehmet C. Oz, MD, and Michael F. Roizen, MD Here’s why beans always make our best-foods list: They’re a healthy, cheap source of protein that’ll reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer, lower your blood sugar, and flatten your belly. (Protect your heart with a batch of EatingWell’s Smoky Black Bean Soup tonight.)

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Do Books Make Us Human? by Kristina Chew “Books are really part of what makes us human.” So asserts Rosemary Agoglia, curator of education at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, in a New York Times article about efforts to teach children the merits and pleasures of the “pre-web page,”

The piece the current crop of articles are based on, titled Animal Psychologists Discover What Music Pets Prefer by Natalie Wolchover of Life’s Little Mysteries, starts off by saying that, just as we think when we leave music on for our pets when we got out, our pets like to listen to music. Charles Snowdon,

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