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The Golden Rule — that you should treat others as you’d wish to be treated — should be amended to include the footnote: ‘because it increases the amount of joy, happiness and goodness in the world and may in fact be the source of the same.’

The Atlantic Wire cites a new study that implies small penises—not just one, but millions of those little trouser mice—cast rather imposing shadows in the world of finance.

Miss the warm sun on your skin? Join the whey-faced S.A.D. club. But don’t mistake the heat-lamp effect of your local strip-mall tanning bed for sunshine—or frankly, even a good idea.

It takes a lot of hustle at the gym to burn off a Big Mac, fries and large Coke. The same holds true for that Hefty bag of movie popcorn and super-size soda. The question some obesity prevention experts are asking, however, is would it make a difference if people knew just how much activity is necessary to burn off sugar-sweetened, fizzy drinks and junk food?

Debate about whether or not Canadians should legalize an individual’s right to physician-assisted suicide has been raging since the early 1990s. Advocates for the legislation argue that not only does criminalizing assisted-suicide mandate needless pain on the terminally ill, but it strips these same individuals of their right to end their lives as an able-bodied person is legally able to do—suicide itself is not illegal in Canada.