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5 Ways Birth Control Can Trip Up Your Love Life
5 Monopoly House Rules You Should Ditch
The Illuminati: The (Conspiratorial) Future
Why do breakup songs hurt so good?
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5 Ways Birth Control Can Trip Up Your Love Life

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The advent of birth control pills not only helped some women reduce pregnancy risk, it also opened the door to greater sexual freedom. But eliminating ovulation may also affect women's sex lives in other, more subtle ways. How?

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5 Monopoly House Rules You Should Ditch

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House Monopoly rules make us feel like Goldilocks: Some make the game too hard -- others, too soft. Which can be ditched to make the game just right?

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The Illuminati: The (Conspiratorial) Future

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While skeptics believe the Illuminati disbanded in the 18th century, conspiracy theorists think the organization still exists -- and has nearly accomplished its ancient goals. But what are these goals? Tune in and learn more about conspiracy theories.

Why do breakup songs hurt so good?

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In the face of heartbreak, music can offer incomparable solace. But is listening to breakup songs just a self-indulgent exercise in sappiness? Or does it actually possess pain-mitigating properties?