12 Things You Should Stop Buying Now | Moneyland | 1. Homeopathic Flu Remedies. The pitch: Fight back against the aches, chills and other misery-inducing symptoms of the flu with herbs or vitamin supplements. The truth: We’ll let the CDC handle this one. From the agency’s website: “There is no scientific evidence that any herbal, homeopathic or other folk remedies have any benefit against influenza.” The exception: Chicken soup, especially if it’s homemade. No, it won’t cure anything, but if it makes you feel a little less crummy, slurp away. Next 2. Spain's Annual "Tomatina" Draws Thousands - Photo Essays. Mod Retro Vintage Clothing & Indie Clothes. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Booted From Flight Over Saggy Pants Saga.
As the typical airplane seating advice goes, your seatbelt should be fastened tight across your lap. Perhaps Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong should have applied that advice to the belt on his pants. Armstrong, the lead singer and guitarist for Green Day, was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday night because of his saggy pants. He was escorted off the Oakland to Burbank flight after a flight attendant insisted his pants were too low.
The rocker immediately took to Twitter to vent his frustration. A producer for a local San Francisco news station was on board the flight and recounted the singer’s low blow. Cindy Qiu said most of the plane was seated when Armstrong boarded. As he walked to his seat, a flight attendant asked him to pull his pants up. (WATCH: 10 Questions for Billie Joe Armstrong) The rebel rocker didn’t take the news lightly, lashing out at the flight attendent. But the saga ends with no runway of Broken Dreams for Armstrong. Soderbergh's Contagion: Don't Touch Gwyneth Paltrow! - TIME. As the house lights dimmed in the Venice Film Festival’s Darsena Theater before the beginning of Contagion, a man sitting just behind us let out a few rasping coughs. That’s not unusual in any movie house just before the feature starts; and journalists, for whom the world-premiere screening was held, are not a particularly robust bunch.
Then Gwyneth Paltrow, playing a businesswoman on a flight from Hong Kong to Chicago, emitted the same hard bark — and in a few screen minutes her character was dead from the globe-girdling virus that is the subject of Steven Soderbergh’s deadly plausible new thriller. When the fellow one row back kept up his hacking, I wondered if he was the kind of “plant” that horror-movie producer William Castle used to put in theaters to make weird noises and scare the real customers.
Except that, with Contagion, the real fear comes when you leave the theater. Scott Z. (See the top 10 deadliest epidemics.) Syria's Machinery of Repression: Can Fear Be Overcome? Japan Earthquake: Survivor Walks 20 Hours to Find Girlfriend. In times of distress, its only natural for your thoughts to go to your loved ones.
(More on TIME.com: See photos of the devastation in Japan.) Zack Branham, a 24 year-old American who was teaching English in Japan, couldn’t contact his girlfriend after the Japan tsunami struck their small coastal towns. Enduring by foot, he braved impassable roads to her town – a mere four miles away – for 20 hours to make sure she was okay. (More on TIME.com: See the complete Japan coverage.) He tried nearly four times to enter her town, and was constantly turned away by the local police. He finally managed to sneak by passing himself off as an emergency worker. Speaking very little Japanese, he eventually found her rather ingeniously. Horses | Mod Retro Vintage Clothing & Indie Clothes. 9/11 Coloring Book Sparks Outrage from Muslim Group. It’s not your average coloring book that depicts the burning Twin Towers and the killing of Osama bin Laden. We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom does just that, and much more, in an attempt to “educate.”
But some U.S. Muslims are expressing anger over the book, claiming that it characterizes all Muslims as linked to terrorism. The most unsettling drawing shows a Navy SEAL shooting at bin Laden, who seems to be hiding behind a niqab-wearing woman. The text on this page reads, “Children, the truth is, these terrorist acts were done by freedom-hating radical Islamic Muslim extremists. These crazy people hate the American way of life because we are FREE and our society is FREE.” (MORE: Anti Ground-Zero Mosque Ads to be Placed on New York City Buses) It has been reported that the phrase “radical Islamic Muslim extremists” is used 10 times in the book. MORE: Timeline: How the U.S. The photojournalism of Ed Ou. At just 24 years old, Ed Ou is repped by Reportage by Getty Images, gotten front page stories in the New York Times, and now has won the Young Reporter Award at Perpignan, the international photojournalism festival, for his photos of young Somali soldiers.
Eduardo Castaldo Ed Ou, right, shooting protests in Cairo, February 2011. While most of his contemporaries are taking on their first assignments, Ou, who was born in Taiwan, grew up in Canada and the US, is already a seasoned journalist. He started working for AP and Reuters as a teenager while studying International Politics and Hebrew in Jerusalem, juggling his classes and shooting the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah whenever he could.He continued to multi-task while studying Arabic in the Middle East, where he shot the fall of Islamic courts. Ou spoke with TIME about some of his work from the past year, what photographers he admires and where he’d like to go next.
I am quite honored and it’s something I never expected. Yeah! h6tsyzwj Shared by benbryant. Japan’s Unlikely Saviors: Elderly Willing to Toil in a Nuke No-Go Zone. In ancient Japan, or so the folktale goes, there used to be a mountain where old people were taken and abandoned once they reached 60 years of age. Although the practice of obasute was probably more rural legend than actual reality, it is a chilling reminder of the perils of old age in a nation where roughly one-quarter of Japanese are now 60 years old or above. But lest anyone think that Japan’s growing coterie of elderly doesn’t contribute to society, a newly formed group called the Skilled Veterans Corps shows just how vital pensioners are to rebuilding a nation still reeling from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Composed of nearly 250 retired engineers and other professionals as of June 1, the group is volunteering to tread where few dare to go: the forbidden zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which is still leaking radiation after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the facility. (PHOTOS: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone) How to Store Cheese. Anne Hathaway, 'One Day' (2011) - Top 10 Worst Fake British Accents - TIME. Anne Hathaway is no Gwyneth Paltrow. That’s not editorializing on TIME’s part but a simple fact when it comes to comparing the two American actresses’ attempts to nail a convincing British accent.
While Paltrow has excelled in the likes of Emma, Sliding Doors, Shakespeare in Love and Sylvia, Hathaway’s hapless hammering of the Yorkshire dialect via the part of Emma Morley in One Day is heinous enough to almost bar her from visiting England. And unfortunately for Hathaway, the critics have sharpened their pencils in almost unanimous agreement. “Her dodgy, hodgepodge British accent,” wrote the Village Voice.
Next Don Cheadle, Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen. Restrictive Reflection: Woman Vows to Go One Year Without Mirrors. Hey there, Kjerstin Gruys, you’ve got some spinach in your teeth. You can thank us later. Most twenty-something women spend quite a bit of time staring at themselves in the mirror — this NewsFeed writer included. It’s not because we’re vain, you see (well… at least not all of us are), but just like any adult, it’s important for us to keep up appearances, especially in today’s superficial society. But one young woman is hoping to break her bad habit of judging herself and how she feels based on the way she looks in the mirror.
(LIST: A Brief History of Women’s Protests) Gruys’ project and corresponding blog is called “Mirror, Mirror… OFF the Wall,” and was created after a stressful weekend searching for the perfect dress for her October wedding. “In my case, I am avoiding the mirror so I can get on with my life and do other things,” Gruys told The Huffington Post.
(PHOTOS: Cindy Sherman for MAC Cosmetics) But no worries, Gruys was smart enough to write a few loopholes into her rules. The Ides of March: George Clooney for President! - TIME. The recent flailing among Republicans looking to unseat Barack Obama suggests nothing so much as the maneuvers of a desperate casting director. The first front-runner was the Mannequin Man, Mitt Romney, with the impersonal handsomeness of an actor who would play the President in a TV movie where that role is a bit part. Suspicious of Romney, conservatives summoned Rick Perry, who looks so much like Josh Brolin as George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone W.that he seemed to be auditioning for his own bio-pic. But when the Texas Governor broke out in a severe case of foot-in-mouth disease, G.O.P. zillionaires looked north to New Jersey’s Chris Christie, who could be Chris Farley revived and expanded, or Jack Black as a Macy’s parade float, or, in Jon Stewart’s description, a “part-time Bobby Bacala impersonator.”
Now that Christie has said no for the thousandth time, some other movie star or celebrity lookalike must step forward. David Bowie Children's Book. North Korea: One of the Happiest Places on Earth? According to a global happiness index released in North Korea, the country and its allies are the most cheerful countries in the world. Naturally, the “American Empire” strikes Pyongyang as just plain sad. Shanghaiist reports that North Korea’s Chosun Central Television recently came out with a happiness index compiled by local researchers. Their findings? China is the happiest place on the planet, earning 100 points (a perfect score!). (VIDEO: How one man caught secret video inside North Korea) The United States places dead last, coming in 203rd.
The Chinese net is ablaze with the results, screen grabs of which have been posted to popular sites. (PHOTOS: Rare pictures inside North Korea) Williams College Takes Top Spot in Forbes’ University Rankings. This week, Forbes released its annual ranking of the 650 best undergraduate academic institutions in America. Its top ten however, are not quite as predictable as you might assume. The magazine conducted its analysis using a set of criteria which encompassed caliber of professors, career opportunities the students are afforded, matriculation rates, and degree of student debt.
Forbes also boasts that in contrast to other lists and rankings of this nature, the contestable impact of “reputation” is excluded from all metrics in their list. However, while Forbes did not directly factor “reputation” into its analysis, the ramifications of an institution’s notoriety is difficult to evade. For example, better quality, more accomplished professors might be more attracted to prestigious institutions when seeking employment. Corporations similarly might be more inclined to hire graduates of a school with outstanding name recognition.
(PHOTOS: The Evolution of the College Dorm) Forbes’ top ten are: Pottermore's Pioneers: Exploring J.K. Rowling's New Site. Pottermore, the new, officially J.K. Rowling–sanctioned Harry Potter website, is now conducting what's known as a "closed beta. " That means that it's not open to the public, but a bunch of lucky fans, about a million of them, have been invited in to explore it early. I'm one of them. My daughter, whom we'll call Plum, is another. Plum is 7, but she's a voracious reader and no mean Potter scholar. She's about to finish the series for the second time. She is, needless to say, crazed with excitement. Plum and I settled in for our first session with Pottermore the other day. Me: Look, there's an owl. Plum: That's not Hedwig though. [The owl turns out to be Pottermore's message center. Me: [Reading] "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" ...
Plum: What's the philosopher's stone? Me: That's what they call it in England. [I click on the book and it shows me a picture of Privet Drive, where the book opens. Plum: [Excited] There's McGonagall! Me: [Reading] "You've discovered No. 4 Privet Drive. " New Mix: Tom Waits, Neutral Milk Hotel And More. Happy Birthday, Beyoncé: 30 Looks for the Pregnant Singer’s 30 Years. Hubble Captures Time-Lapse Videos Of Stars Being Born : The Picture Show. The birth of star is just as traumatic as the birth of a person, only on a much larger scale. For years, astronomers have known that newly formed stars fire powerful beams of gas into space called "protostellar jets.
" Because almost every young star forms these jets, astronomers have been desperate to get a better understanding of their evolution and their role in the star formation process. Until recently, however, astronomers had to be content with simple snapshots of the infant stars and their jets — not a great help when it comes to understanding how something moves. Now, using pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope across more than a decade, my colleagues and I have been able to create movies of the jets. Pat Hartigan of Rice University and I (along with other collaborators) produced movies that provide a new perspective on protostellar jets as they blast away from their newly formed stars.
Smartphone Radiation: The 10 Highest and 10 Lowest Emitters. The World Health Organization recently revealed the radiation levels emitted from common cell phones to be "possibly carcinogenic. " The new findings put phones in the same category as DDT and car exhaust. The amount of radio frequency energy that your body absorbs from your cell phone is measured by its Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR. The units are measured in watts per kilogram, and each phone in the U.S. must have an SAR of lower than 1.6 to pass clearance. We’ll take a look at the highest- and lowest-emitting smartphones currently still for sale in the U.S. nowadays. If you’re looking for a phone that’s not on our list, CNET has a very thorough cell phone radiation level database that covers non-smartphones and phones no longer being sold.
You’ll also notice that some popular handsets such as BlackBerrys and the venerable iPhone haven’t made the list. The iPhone 4, for instance, has an SAR of 1.17 (AT&T) to 1.18 (Verizon). The Berlin Wall – Don McCullin’s Lost Negatives. How Do You Spell ‘Gaddafi?’ The Linguistics Behind Libya’s Leader.
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