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This from the Sun, UK’s loudest and best tabloid. LONDON, England — Diminutive “Star Wars” actor Kenny Baker stopped complaining about his discomfort inside robot R2DT during filming for the sci-fi saga’s final episode – because the film crew plastered its interior with pictures of naked models. The 70-year-old actor […]
Lynn Yaeger writes about the proliferation of too bare naked ladies in the Village Voice “Look down. If there is a naked, flaccid expanse between the top of your bottom and the bottom of your top, you are giving us a problem this season. Not that the phenomenon of the […]
Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique, a non-drug relaxation or stress-reduction method, reduces death rates by 23% and extends lifespan in the elderly, according to a study published in the May 2, 2005 issue of American Journal of Cardiology. The study found that compared to combined controls, the TM group showed: • […]
The Wall Street Journal reports on a new and intimate way to reach consumers–The corporate blog. The Italian scooter maker Vespa is giving this new concept a shot starting in June. “Piaggio is taking care. Its blog site, VespaBlogs.com, could launch by early June, says Steve Rubel, a VP at […]
This dispatch is from AOL news, about a pair rescued from the high seas. “The pair quenched their thirst with sea water and slipped into the ocean to cool off, but sharks chased them back onto the boat. At night, they used a single wet suit to keep warm. The […]
From a log book of the Atlantis, a research ship for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. “As I write this, the engine room is carefully adjusting the ship’s ballast. This is an interesting physics problem for all you scholars out there. As we burn fuel, we transform the heavy liquid […]
Alex Heard, of Outside Magazine, weighed in on Slate recently about a topic that many journos have been following, and including some admissions about his own less than impressive start in journalism. “In case you’ve missed the big media flap concerning a young woman named Krystal Grow, here’s a review. […]
Alexandra Jacobs writes in today’s NY Time’s style section about how you deal with picky eaters when you’re planning a dinner party. “There’s something irredeemably rude about phoning in your dietary preferences to a social acquaintance, as if you’re about to embark on a trans-Atlantic flight rather than a convivial […]
Today’s NY Times includes this story about the people of Mendham, NJ, who have fought in vain to keep Verizon from putting up a cell tower to improve reception in the hilly rich-people’s burg. Despite dead spots, neighbors are against a new tower–except one man: “Ms. Wood’s neighbor, Sammy Barsa, […]
We woke up to a grey morning in Holyoke. Outside the picture window, the feeders were alive with avian activity. A giant piliated woodpecker knawed on the suet, so long and aggressive with a big beak chomping down the beef fat that hangs next to the seeds. Then a bit […]
Frank Rose is one of my favorite reporters, each month’s Wired usually has an informative, only-in-wired type of story. He writes about Samsung’s supercharged rise to the top of the consumer electronics world. “Even today, people talk about the “voluntary incineration” at Gumi. A drab factory town in south-central Korea. […]
Eric Sanderson has documented the changes in Manhattan’s physical landscape from 1609 to the present. Wired this month showed a map with black outlines around the green familiar shape of the island, the gap between is where fill has created new land for the wharves and piers. He also compared […]