February 2012
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FROM THE ATLANTIC - 1930s HONG KONG REVEALED IN A VINTAGE TRAVEL FILM
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January 2012
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13 INTERIOR DESIGN CLICHES THAT MUST BE STOPPED
As a former architecture student and design enthusiast, it’s pretty predictable that architecture and interior design is always on my mind. I’m a sucker for beautiful furniture and can’t help entering a good-looking showroom. I’m always browsing Curbed and the Times real estate section. Apartment Therapy I visit nearly daily, though I have a more complicated relationship...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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NEWSWEEK - THE "SEX ADDICTION" EPIDEMIC
  via the Daily Beast: …compulsive sexual behavior, also called hypersexual disorder, can systematically destroy a person’s life much as addictions to alcohol or drugs can. And it’s affecting an increasing number of Americans, say psychiatrists and addiction experts. “It’s a national epidemic,” says Steven Luff, coauthor of Pure Eyes: A Man’s Guide to Sexual Integrity and leader of the...
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October 2011
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I never knew this: Ketchup, that most ubiquitous of condiments, is used in 97 percent of households, besting mustard, which is in 89 percent of homes, according to Mintel, the market research firm. Americans squirt ketchup on an average of 9.74 meals a week, and households on average consume 1.3 bottles a month.
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LATIMES - MCDONALD'S TO LAUNCH IN-STORE TV CHANNEL
Mark Burnett, BBC America and KABC-TV Eyewitness News will provide content for dine-in customers. By Greg Braxton and Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times October 17, 2011 McDonald’s customers will soon be able to have local school sports, movie previews and heartwarming human interest stories to go with their fries — McTV is here and in high definition. In one of the most unusual twists in...
Oct 17th
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ADWEEK - IS DIGITAL KILLING THE LUXURY BRAND?
The democratizing power of the Web means figuring out how to go online without going downscale By John Ortved High-end fashion brands have a problem. Let’s call it the “Kreayshawn quandary,” after the young Bay Area rapper made famous by the Internet and her hit song “Gucci, Gucci,” which has gotten over 16 million views on YouTube. Sample lyrics: “Gucci, Gucci, Louis, Louis, Fendi, Fendi,...
Oct 13th
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NPR - Romance Novels, Hairless Chests, And...
by LINDA HOLMES Sarah Wendell, with years of experience working at the web site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, has written a new book, Everything I Know About Love I Learned From Romance Novels. Collecting comments from her readers and from authors, as well as drawing on her own experience as a reader and a blogger, she sets out to explore the relationship between what romance readers get from...
Oct 13th
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NYTIMES - HEARING BILINGUAL: HOW BABIES TELL...
  By PERRI KLASS, M.D. Published: October 10, 2011 Recently, researchers at the University of Washington used measures of electrical brain responses to compare so-called monolingual infants, from homes in which one language was spoken, to bilingual infants exposed to two languages. The researchers found that at 6 months, the monolingual infants could discriminate between phonetic sounds, whether...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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NYTIMES - APPLE ENDS TV EPISODE RENTALS
By BRIAN STELTER Published: August 26, 2011 Nearly a year after Apple persuaded the television networks to try out a television episode rental service through its iTunes store, it has quietly taken the service down. Customers, it seems, did not want to rent TV episodes through an online store. “iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows,” an Apple spokesman said...
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN HEAD
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July 2011
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THE ATLANTIC - RESEARCH SUGGESTS HAPPY PEOPLE MAKE...
HANS VILLARICA - Hans Villarica writes for and produces The Atlantic’s Life channel. His work has appeared in TIME, People Asia, and Fast Company. JUL 19 2011, 1:32 PM ET A new study slated to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests that mood affects our ability to make swift, balanced, and efficient assessments—and, as a result, to shop wisely. Take the case of a...
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NYTIMES - TEEN NICK'S 90s NOSTALGIA FEST
Starting next Monday, TeenNick, part of the Nickelodeon family of cable channels for children, will start rebroadcasting old series from the 1990s that are considered classics by young adults. The channel says it is responding to the demands of former viewers who joined Facebook groups about the shows — and to the suggestions of some of its interns, who pulled together a presentation last summer...
Jul 20th
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The Atlantic - GEOGRAPHY OF HOW WE GET TO WORK
RICHARD FLORIDA JUL 13 2011, 9:00 AM ET After housing, transportation is the biggest item in a typical family’s budget, accounting for an average of 20 percent. Yet America overwhelmingly remains a nation of drivers. Across the board, nearly nine in 10 (86 percent) of Americans commute to work by car and more than three-quarters (76.1 percent) drive to work alone, according to the most...
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NYTIMES - CENSUS FINDS MORE APARTMENTS EMPTY, YET...
By SAM ROBERTS Published: July 6, 2011 Wealthy out-of-towners have always had pieds-à-terre and unused investment properties in the city. What is new is how many. Since 2000, the number of Manhattan apartments occupied by absentee owners and renters swelled by more than 70 percent, to nearly 34,000, from 19,000. They proliferated in virtually every census tract south of 110th Street, with the...
Jul 7th
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WSJ - HOTELS OFFER A BREAK FROM TECHNOLOGY
JULY 5, 2011 By ANNE TERGESEN With hotels, resorts, and travel companies scrambling to fill rooms, a small but growing number are rolling out “unplugged” and “digital detox” packages to entice people who need a push to take a break from their screens. Marketing the deals on Twitter, Facebook, and their own websites, many hotels are offering discounts. Others are...
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