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A roundup of the latest news: Google unveils 'Recipe View'; CBS pulls the plug on Two and a Half Men; what your car colour says about your personality; a five-year-old girl won’t get married until she has a job; and the space shuttle Discovery departs for its final mission.

Sometimes, when I am alone, I will go into the kitchen and begin to eat things that I pretend I don’t eat when I’m among friends, colleagues and family.

You don’t have to have a dog to appreciate this recent Slate column by writer Jesse Bering. But it helps. The article examines the reasons behind an unpleasant phenomenon familiar to most pet owners, and that is the domestic dogs’ affection for grinding against the funkiest and most foul-smelling objects they can sniff out.

Working in an office comes with many perks—the opportunity to socialize with peers, unsupervised access to office supplies, health benefits, and direct deposit payment.

Oh, babies. What won’t we do to have them? And thanks to breakthroughs in fertility treatments more and more women are able to have children in ways never dreamed possible. But with endless possibilities come ethical concerns too. If we can do almost anything to get what we want, where do we draw the line, if at all?