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Russian President Vladimir Putin criticizes Obama for promoting American exceptionalism in his Syria speech

Brain training games claim to boost your mental skills, but research has shown they don't make young people smarter. Now a custom-designed computer game has found success in older adults, improving players' short-term memory and attention

These 30 seconds capture how the de Blasio campaign has upended the Bloomberg 1% era in New York politics

More than a million years older than "Lucy," some nearly complete skeletons of Ardipithecus ramidus and thousands of associated fossils provide the most detailed snapshot of our earliest upright ancestors.

Led off by two of the youngest and most appealing break dancers ever, more than 1200 Glee fans came together for a spectacular flash mob. Seattle, April 10, 2011.

Sir Archibald Mapsalot III explains why the Arab respects nothing like a strong, steady white hand drawing arbitrary lines twixt their ridiculous tribal allegiances.

Walmart associates of America: Stand up and make a change. 

The Law Revue girls want to define those supposedly "blurred lines". Enjoy their parody of Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke.

A union can make a big difference to people's perceptions of a job. Learn more about unions in the UK or USA. 

NASCAR fans attending the 2013 Brickyard 400 races were greeted by this ad on a jumbotron at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The spoof beer ad produced by the Marijuana Policy Project.