Contributor: Plugged In Staff

Tap, tap, tap. Hey, is this soapbox on? Because a good mini-diatribe needs amplification. A new Arizona State University study has found that (and I quote the research): [Women] were asked to choose whether they would rather be obese or have one of 12 …

Some weddings cause women to gain a daughter or lose a son. Annie’s losing her best friend—while gaining bridesmaidzilla status and a premarital pity party.

Without careful eyes and fact checkers, who knows how long we, the masses, would have been in the dark. I first saw the Martin Luther King, Jr. misquote on a friend’s Facebook page. With regard to Osama Bin Laden’s death, it read, “I mourn the loss of …

Canonized in 2002, St. Josemaría Escrivá’s spiritual and physical journey through the Spanish Civil War gets a historical fiction treatment from the director of The Mission.

Breezing past the old and the new, the borrowed thing in this Kate Hudson romcom is the fiancé. Not that anyone cares as long as the girl we’re told to root for gets her dream guy.

Social networking often gets mixed reviews. But here’s a story about it that makes me smile. After tornadoes cut a wide swath of destruction across much of Alabama and five other southern states last week, a Facebook page was set up to reunite victims …

The OneRepublic guys are perched on top of the world—and they’ll let you know all about it in their latest single. But they’re honest enough (as are we) to note the presence of clouds trying to cover the sun.

It’s been the subject of years of conjecture and media hype—or, perhaps it only seems that long. And now, after a steady stream of large (often strange) hats, billions of horses, pomp, circumstance and a fabulously beautiful wedding dress, the royal we …

Remember the last time your power went out? Maybe it was during a storm that the TV, Xbox and lights flickered off, leaving you fumbling for a match and muttering, “Greaaat.” Well, lights are awesome. Big fan here. And media tech is great, too. But wha …

Born of its frontman’s pain and literary tendencies, this indie band explores life, death, doubt and love with an anthemic, orchestral rock flair.

OK, I’ll admit it. Back when such things were more unusual, I flinched imperceptibly—I hope—whenever I noticed hooks in someone’s eyebrow or massive gauges in their earlobes. And when I saw my first surgically split tongue, the sighting caused my knees …

The director of the Ice Age movies heads to warmer climes with a few fancifully feathered—and fiercely frenetic—friends in tow.

Was Yosemite Sam based on a real, historical person? And was Elmer Fudd a caricature of an actual hunter? To my knowledge, no (and bunnies everywhere breathed a sigh of relief). But if you needed to think for a second, you’re probably not alone. Over t …

Junior-competition surfer Bethany Hamilton lost her arm to a shark in 2003. Today she’s giving God props for the wave of trouble that almost swamped her life.

You know the buzz that happens when someone changes their status to “in a relationship” on Facebook? Sometimes it’s like confetti and a bouquet of helium balloons were released over the Internet. It seems as if people almost ache for their single frien …