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The UK’s National Obesity Forum (NOF) has come out with a scathing report this week that condemns the common advice handed down from authorities to eat a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet. It argues that “eating fat does not make you fat” and joins a growing wave of backlash against the established dietary …

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Josh Valcarcel/WIRED A few months ago, we told you about the imminent arrival of Sine, the new compact on-ear headphones from Audeze. They use planar magnetic drivers, not the dynamic drivers found in most headphones. Dynamic drivers are the familiar cone-shaped variety you’ve seen a million times—look inside the stereo speakers …

Jaybird has just announced what it says are the smallest pair of earbuds the company has ever made. The new Freedom Wireless Bluetooth Buds, the fifth pair in the Freedom series of headphones, are meant to blend features of Jaybird’s sport headphones, the Freedom X line, with a much more …

Mark Adams, author of the bestselling travel memoir Turn Right at Machu Picchu, discovered something quite surprising while researching his book: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis goes back to the philosopher Plato. Intrigued, Adams decided to investigate further, but quickly he discovered the subject of Atlantis …

The ’90s comic Preacher is beloved by many, but it’s not an easy sell for general audiences: A possessed Texas preacher, his murderous ex-girlfriend, and a hard-partying Irish vampire team up to find God. Since the comic’s inception, Hollywood has flirted with bringing it to the screen. Directors like Sam …

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France has not been kind to Jamie and Claire. Their plans to overthrow Charles Stuart and thwart the Jacobite rebellion? Failures. Claire? Assaulted. Jamie? Still recovering from his rape. Black Jack Randall? Alive. We’re halfway through Outlander’s second season, and while the show has certainly evolved, it’s not necessarily been …

The marble corridors of the Russell Senate Office building are filled with congressional staff, lobbyists and plain old tourists ambling around Capitol Hill on a weekday afternoon. But 59 year-old Gary Fisher, a retired software engineer from Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, has a mission: to convince lawmakers that going to Mars …

Let’s just start this off on a positive note: This last week on the web was a lot less combative than the previous seven days. Not that it’s been all peace and rainbows—this is still the Internet, after all—but at least this week had some kinder, gentler moments. (Kanye West …