Call it the “Twilight” effect: Names from Stephenie Meyer’s series of vampire novels and their hit film spin-offs sank their teeth into the list of most popular baby names this year, with Jacob and Isabella (the long form of Bella, Meyer’s heroine) topping the respective lists for boys and girls, and Cullen rising faster than [...]
March 31, 2010
Remember the last time you saw a photo of an exotic place or building and wondered where it was was taken? Well, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have devised the first computerized method to help answer your question -a feat made possible by searching millions of GPS-tagged images in the Flickr online photo collection. The algorithm, [...]
March 14, 2010
There has been quite a stir this past week in the blogosphere, as Chef Daniel Angerer, a NYC chef that once beat Bobby Flay on Iron Chef (no easy feat), announced that he was serving the customers in his restaurant, Klee cheese made from his wife’s breast milk. While I have nursed two babies, and [...]
January 19, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police have arrested a Lebanese man allegedly carrying fake currency with a face value of $66 million after he tipped a hotel staff with a $500 note, an official said. The largest U.S. note currently in wide circulation is a $100 bill. But police found bundles of $1 million, $100,000 [...]
January 16, 2010
MOSCOW — An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies. The owner of the advertising screen, which sits atop a main road about two km (1.2 miles) south of the Kremlin, told [...]
January 2, 2010
In the quest for youthful beauty, no treatment is too outlandish. From the use of wild ingredients like bird poo and human placenta to plastic surgery for the nether regions, look back at some of the craziest lengths people went to for beauty in the ‘00s. Is that poo on your face? The ’00s were [...]
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