Claudia Fisher

Once it starts getting cold out, my friends and I only talk about two things: eating and sleeping. All other interests go out the window, lost to the frigid air, and our energy gets channeled toward maintaining our bodies' homeostases until the sun…

Burning Man is an enigmatic festival, and if you've never been, it's especially hard to grasp the scene in Black Rock City. It's a week-long showcase of art, music, workshops and unregulated human nature in the middle of a desert that life forms…

Gabby Douglas is a more talented and accomplished human at age 20 than most of the population will ever be. As with anyone enviable in the public eye, Gabby's decorated Olympic career has attracted an onslaught of unsolicited criticisms. And, as…

Guys, it's no secret New York City has one of the best, most extensive food scenes in the world. You can pretty much get anything your stomach would ever dream of and if you think you've invented some intricate concoction, 94 percent of the time…

Tomorrow marks the start of April -- and America's worst holiday, but let's just pretend April Fool's Day doesn't exist. More importantly, April 1 is the start of a smoky yellow brick road, wafting us toward 4/20. The holiday at the end of the month…

Drop that protein bar! It turns out a much more delicious snack could be the secret to getting a better workout. Researchers at Kingston University in England did everyone a favor and conducted a study that shows a little bit of dark chocolate can…

For those of you who laughed in the faces of carrot naysayers warning, “If you eat too many, you'll turn orange,” you're about to be sor(ang)ely disappointed. It turns out, unlike that girl in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” who turned into a…

Growing up, I had no idea there was a month designated Women’s History Month. If my high school assigned projects or pushed efforts promoting it, I either wasn’t paying attention or the initiative wasn’t strong enough to resonate with a bunch of…

As you've probably heard by now, rumors are abound that Taylor Swift dumped Calvin Harris because he got a Thai massage followed by a happy ending. Whether or not this story is true, it's pretty hard to ignore the implications: A new T.Swift…

The human mind is powerful and mysterious. At once contained and vast, methodical and unpredictable, the brain continues to surprise us. In one moment, your thoughts are linear and focused and, in the next, you hum an old song lyric; you dream about…