Get This: Brad Says Angie’s a Hero

Check out the list of links that should be on your radar today:

Brad Pitt called S.O. Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy and write about it publicly “absolutely heroic.” Awww. [London Evening Standard]

Spanx founder Sara Blakely has agreed to give the majority of her wealth to charity, making her the first female billionaire to join Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge. [People.com]

You may be able to hit a fitness studio on the company’s dime: More businesses are encouraging employees to hold meetings on the go. [Fast Company]

Having no friends at work just got a little sadder: It may increase your diabetes risk, according to new research. [ScienceDaily]

Back away from the garden hose: In a recent study, one-third of hoses tested positive for high levels of harmful chemicals. [miNBCnews.com]

Fifteen Whole Foods stores in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York mistakenly put chicken in a salad labeled vegan. Kinda makes you worry there might be other food-labeling errors you don’t know about. [ABC News]

The United Nations says eating bugs could help combat obesity. Or, you know, you could just stick to healthy foods that weren’t killed with a rolled-up newspaper. [Reuters]

There are more than 15 as many male film directors as female ones. Lame. [Jezebel]

Before he was the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown recorded a song about phone sex. That’s not creepy at all. [BuzzFeed]

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