What exactly has evangelical come to mean? An increasing number of liberal evangelicals, popular among younger Christians has altered the traditional image. Chelsen Vicari, author of Distortion: How t...

Quick BackdropThis morning, I saw a praying mantis on my front porch. It got me thinking. In fact, consider the praying mantis for a minute. Go ahead. Just for a minute. It's a weird, big bug, not a common inse...

Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland, Fla., just opened its doors to a state-of-the-art, $60 million library; but don't expect to find any books there. The university's 500 students instead will have acce...

College marks the first time many college students seriously start managing their own finances. Often, they make some mistakes along the way. Perhaps it's not a huge surprise that more than half of all college ...

We all know vegetables are good for you, but for kids, a baby carrot is a poor substitute for a nice, greasy cheese puff. It's almost impossible to get children interested in eating healthily.However, some frui...

If they had their way, most teens probably would like to start their school days around, oh, 11 a.m. or so.While that's not likely to happen, the American Academy of Pediatrics says school-going youth could ben...

A frustrated mother has invented an app that makes it impossible for kids to ignore their parents' calls. Called "Ignore No More," the $1.99 app (available on Android) gives parents the ability to shut down a t...

The average middle-class family will spend nearly a quarter of a million bucks to raise a child born today, according to a study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That's before the kid starts applying fo...

Cambridge University, one of the most prestigious schools in the world, is soliciting would-be science majors to pursue a particularly tasty field of research and serve as the university's Doctor of Chocolate.N...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are poring over people's Facebook posts in an effort to determine what sort of social media language different people use. More than 75,000 people are participating...