Tag archive: death

“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain famously said upon hearing that a newspaper had published his obituary. These days, thanks largely to microblogging sites like Twitter, hardly a week goes by without rumors of a celebrity or some such person in the public eye popping their clogs. The latest person to get caught up in the Twitter rumor mill is the new North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. According to reports, news that the… Read More

According to a report from Reuters published on Tuesday, the social network company Facebook has launched an update that allows users to report any content posted on the site and categorize the post as “suicidal content” in the options. Facebook then sends an email to the suicidal user which contains methods of contact to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline which include a URL link for a direct online chat or the phone number.… Read More

If you're reading this on a computer, chances are you're sitting down, and if you've been sitting for more than an hour, your lifespan may have just dropped by an additional 22 minutes. That is, if you believe the results of a new study by the University of Queensland. Australian researchers have found that those who averaged six hours of TV (or sitting sedentary) per day lived about five years less than those who watched no… Read More