7 ridiculous caffeine-laced products (and why they just might disappear)

Way back in the 1950s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved caffeine use in just one product, the iconic cola. Nowadays, you can find caffeine in a bevy of different foods, from the usual suspects to snack foods and...

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Merida's makeover: Big deal or not so much?

Scottish lass Merida from last summer's Pixar smash is finally joining the ranks of the Disney Princesses. But before she joins the queue, evidently she needed a li'l polish. With neater hair, a li'l more skin and a flashy dress...

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Could you deal with an all-veg cafeteria menu?

Sure, we can handle going vegetarian for a night or two--even a whole day! But all week, every week? That's crazy talk...or is it? One elementary school in NYC is doing just that. After trying all-vegetarian lunches a few times a...

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8 great things that happened this week

Between the Boston Marathon bombings to the West Texas fertilizer plant explosion to the flooding in Chicago and beyond, this has been a “no news is good news” kind of a week…until now. While your newsfeeds might be cluttered with...

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GL's going quiet for the Day of Silence. Are you?

Today is the National Day of Silence. Girls' Life will be joining thousands of schools, organizations and individuals across the country to call attention to the continual silence forced upon LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people. For longer than...

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Words to remember when life gets scary

When bombs went off near the Boston Marathon finish line this afternoon, fear spread across America--the same fear, I'm sure, that's felt globally when such things happen. Security tightened in major U.S. cities, and I, for one, was glued to...

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RIP Margaret Thatcher: 10 lessons from the Iron Lady

Earlier today, one of the most remarkable women of all time passed away from a stroke. Margaret Thatcher was Great Britain’s first-ever female prime minister. She changed the way the country viewed politics, and the way girls and women viewed...

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Armed guards in schools: Thumbs up or thumbs down?

In the approximately 100 days that have passed since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, we’ve talked a lot about gun control. Now, state governments are beginning to advance legislation that might actually do something—though what that something...

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Food for thought: Are French fries dumbing ya down?

A new study confirmed what scientists already assumed: fatty foods are bad for your body and your brain. That icky after-junk-food feeling is more than just a mood, because unhealthy grub actually changes your brain’s chemicals. When experts studied these...

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School cancels coolest after school program ever after parents complain

Here's a test: Would you rather sign up for an after school program called "Exploratory Reading" or "Zombie Apocalypse Survival"? If you're siding with the undead, you're in the majority--and that's the whole point, argue proponents of the class, which...

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