We the People…Really Love Dogs

It’s official: Americans are, by and large, dog people. Eighteen percent claim to be dinosaur people, but they might want to rethink that.

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Heart-shaped MOM tattoos are a pretty clichéd (and tacky) way to honor a loved one, but one graphic designer's flesh-and-ink tribute to his father is both beautiful and meaningful.

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Read up on these 7 misconceptions about the fine art of cooking steak before your next backyard barbecue. Your stomach, your guests, and your guests' stomachs will thank you.

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Butter-loving Southern cooking maven Paula Deen is in hot water for cracking racist jokes and dropping the n-word, but it's not the first time she's been caught spouting some unwise words.

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Superman is super-strong, can leap tall buildings in a single bound, and is probably a pretty good journalist in his non-world-saving hours, so I’ve always thought it seemed odd that something as mundane as a radioactive rock can bring him to his knees. I’m not the only one who thinks so.

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Kanye West is also under fire for not being too careful with the lyrics of his latest album.

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This is what a billion pixels' worth of Mars looks like.