Meet a Real-Life Mermaid
Linden Wolbert is kinda, sorta a real-life mermaid. The free diver uses a $15,000, 6-foot tail to swim and can hold her breath for five minutes.
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Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the month “April, 2013”
Myanmar Lifts Newspaper Ban
The Burmese thaw continues. In Myanmar, privately run daily newspapers once again hit the stands after being banned by late dictator Ne Win in the 1960s.
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Biden on Cruise Control
Joe Biden is taking his third vacation so far in 2013. “Shhh…don’t complain,” says Jodi Miller. “We’re better off, believe me.” She also addresses the Supreme Court’s pending same-sex marriage case, Jim Carrey gun control antics and North Korea’s belligerent Kim Jong Un in this edition of NewsBusted.
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Genetic Privacy
In this edition of Bite Sci-zed, Alex Dainis raises several pivotal questions regarding genetic privacy, few of which have easy answers.
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What Matters Most
What’s the most important thing you can have? Is it money? Is it love? Is it happiness? Or is it something else? Best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio host Dennis Prager has the answer. It may change the way you look at and, ultimately, lead your life.
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Marvel Kowtows to China
Marvel is releasing a special, China-only edition of Iron Man 3. Way to sell out, Marvel! The Chinese edition will have special scenes specifically written to suck up to the Chinese government.
Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co., made a joint announcement with Chinese media company DMG last Friday. The domestic, Chinese and other international versions will have similarities, but China’s will have additional prepared bonus footage made especially for the Chinese audience.
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Till Dance Do Us Part
A married couple used to be dancing fools. But now they’ve grown old, and the husband is confined to a wheelchair. Still, his wife is such a fanatic she just can’t put away her dancing shoes, much to his chagrin. This hilarious exercise is the graduation film of four animations students — Tom Mourik, Thijs Viegers, Ben Vinkenburg and Jessy Suharyanto — from the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands.
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Groucho takes on Jack Benny
Titans of comedy Groucho Marx and Jack Benny square off on CBS’ Jack Benny Program in 1955. The skit recreates Marx’s popular ’50s radio-TV show, You Bet Your Life. Revisit LOL next Tuesday for another journey through the lighter side of life. — The Wickel
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Lego Caves on Star Wars Toy
Lego has pulled a Star Wars toy after the Turkish Cultural Association of Austria called it culturally insensitive, claiming the Jabba the Hutt toy resembles a mosque. How can Lego be so politically correct, so long as Jar Jar Binks toys remain on the shelves?
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Best Cartoon Theme Songs
Rhett hums the greatest cartoon theme songs of all time, and Link has to guess what they are. Play at home in this edition of Good Mythical Morning.
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