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As NPR covers rather nicely in this article, all the rapture and apocalypse talk on the net and on roadside billboards stems from the predictions of Judgment Day enthusiast and evangelical radio broadcaster Harold Camping. He previously thought the Biblical end times would kick off back on Sept. 6, 1994. Instead, all that happened was that British pianist Nicky Hopkins died. In other words, the world moved on.
Here in the U.S., we’re adrift in a constant war of political words. On one side we have political conservatives who want to own guns, build play forts out of money and drill for oil on the moon. On the other side, we have political liberals who think marijuana should be legal, hospitals free and cats afforded basic human rights.
OK, so those are exaggerations, but the exaggeration serves to drive home the fact that liberals and conservatives often come off like two separate species who just happen to share the same basic morphology. But do the differences go deeper than nurtured beliefs and values? Do liberals and conservatives have different brains?
Indeed, women can be pregnant without even knowing it, as discussed in the Discovery Health article 10 Reasons You Might Now Know You’re Pregnant (Until You’re in Labor).
Since it seems like such a far-fetched notion, we asked listeners to send in any real-life anecdotes. And they’ve been rolling into our MomStuff Inbox — at an admittedly startling rate.
Where is Hildebran, N.C., and why should people care about it? Well, if you’re a fan of the young adult smash “The Hunger Games” and its two sequels, you might want to do a Google Maps search, hit “street view” and look around for a while. According to EW.com, the sleepy little burg an hour outside Charlotte will be playing the part of Panem in the upcoming film adaptation of “The Hunger Games.”
KEO isn’t your typical time capsule. For starters, it’s a satellite. Instead of spending the next century or millennium buried in the ground or tucked away in a vault, it will (theoretically) leave Earth and return 50,000 years in the future, bearing messages to our descendants. These aren’t just messages from politicians, celebrities and brilliant, quirky mathematicians [...]
I like to think that I’m fairly adventurous and open-minded. When someone suggests trying a new cuisine, listening to a new CD or checking out a new movie or documentary, I don’t hesitate to say, “OK.” But, for some reason, I’m not always quite so ready to try other things — or so my husband says.
A post-lunch procrastinating link hop led me to an unlikely location: Savile Row. It all started with a slide show of women’s power suits over at The Grindstone, which led me to wonder where on earth these office uniforms came from.
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Not everyone relishes a freshly-microwaved plate of leftovers — but, if you had to guess, how much food would you say is lost or wasted across the world, each year? Hundreds of millions of tons, surely. Maybe billions? The actual number is 1.3 billion tons. According to a recent report from the UN’s Food and [...]
In his excellent New York Times editorial piece, Chuck Klostermlan described zombies as a collective fear projection of the boring, unstoppable forces that will consume us in our humdrum lives. That being said, the undead still continue to fascinate teaming masses of fans, forcing a lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t to consider survival strategies for the end of civilization. What does the CDC have to say?
I spent yesterday afternoon researching toilet innovations for a future article and, as interesting as pooping technology gets, I wasn’t expecting it to result in a blog post. But here we are, considering the fact that INCNERATING TOILETS EXIST. Yes, while some of you may think nothing of pooping into a mechanical box of fire, the prospect is a rather new idea for yours truly. Let’s watch a video about the technology and discuss the pros and cons
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