A New Website Asks: What Matters to You?


Updated 01/04/09 6:54 PM · Posted by GeekSugar · 2 comments

A New Website Asks: What Matters to You?

By visiting 1000 Things That Matter, you are encouraged to leave a couple of sentences, or a video, or a picture, to express what matters to you. The blogger who started the project hopes to take the responses and create a short film about the future of telecommunication. Here's what he had to say about his latest venture: If meaning is created through language then our society is created through Read more

Barry's Bootcamp's Joey Gonzalez on Why Your Workout Isn't Working


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Barry's Bootcamp on Why Your Workout Isn't Working

We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Shape here on FitSugar. Barry's Bootcamp (BBC), the high-intensity workout that helps celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Jessica Alba, and Jake Gyllenhaal stay in amazing shape, has opened its first East Coast location in Manhattan! The studio is known for its nightclub-meets-boot-camp-style during hour-long classes that mix strength training Read more

Tax Hangover: The Cure For Next Year


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Tax Hangover: The Cure For Next Year

We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! Tax season officially end[ed Monday] at midnight. Care to join us for a celebratory cocktail? OK, maybe you’re still planning to run to the post office tonight (if so, check out our last-minute tips). But if your return is already filed, grab that martini and treat yourself to a massage. No matter how many times we do it, tax Read more

Combat "Lethal Sitting" With These Tips


Updated 04/20/11 6:58 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Sitting Can Be Lethal According to New York Times Article

We all know that sitting at a desk all day is not exactly the best thing for our bodies, but a recent New York Times Magazine article posits that not only is it bad, it could be lethal. James Levine, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic, has been studying the effects of sitting and says that it can lead to earlier death — up to 20 percent, according to his and others' research. Why is being Read more