Friday, June 5, 2009 at 10:14AM MAD21 Katie Dailey of Newsweek reports, "Everyone knows that the road to flat, tight abs is paved with crunches. Lots and lots and lots of excruciating crunches. Or is it? As it turns out, the exercises synonymous with strong, attractive abs may not be the best way to train your core—and may be doing damage to your back."
Friday, June 5, 2009 at 9:14AM MAD21 Reposted By Erika
Growing up, I never thought I would be the kid who gets excited about saving money. I always put the "fun" percentage of my allowance and my birthday money and all that I earned towards whatever goodies I had my eye on at the time. In middle and high school, it was clothes. During the first half of college, while working as a waitress, it was whatever my heart desired.
Finances, Young Adult in Young Adults Friday, June 5, 2009 at 8:47AM MAD21 By Alan and Brian, CPA
I had someone make a statement at work that I wanted to look into. Since it was a money related, I asked Brian who is a CPA. I wanted to know: If you have a $10,000 debt to a credit card company, and through negotiation (because you can't pay the full amount), they relieve $5,000 of debt in order for you to only pay $5,000, is it true that the credit card company will issue a 1099 to the IRS in the form of income given to you? Are there times when this would not happen? This seems like this isn't really talked about, if true.
Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 11:08AM MAD21 Interesting research on how to get people motivated to be more active and perhaps exercise more. Telegraph reports, "In tests, very overweight mice doubled their amount of physical activity when the hormone leptin – which regulates appetite – was switched on in their brain. Scientists hope to build on the research to create medication to help people who suffer from obesity to lead more active lives. Dr Christian Bjorbaek, an endocrinologist Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, said: "This gives us the opportunity to search for drugs that might induce the desire or will to voluntarily exercise."
Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 10:36AM MAD21 Alan Boyle reports on Cosmic Log, "NASA experts are taking fuzzy pictures and trying outdifferent recipes for Red Planet dirt as they continue their weeks-long effort to get a stuck Mars rover moving again."
