It's almost Halloween. Are you afraid? Do you have the lab standing by to check your kids' candy? Time for the annual debunking of an urban myth:
Halloween is the day when America market-tests parental paranoia. If a new fear flies on Halloween, it's probably going to catch on the rest of the year, too.
They die so young these days:
First they take away my Zima, now this: Sony has pressed the eject button on the Walkman, discontinuing production of the AM/FM cassette player after 31 years.
It's bad enough that John Hughes is dead and “Goonies” alum Martha Plimpton is playing a grandmother on TV.
It has generally been assumed that, while women might give more often than men to charity, they give less. But a new study from Indiana University shows -- pretty conclusively -- that women give both more often and more money. And the reporting of the study goes to great head-scratching lengths to figure out why this might be so:
I've wondered about this myself:
I'm wondering whether the word "ADULT" is becoming a completely new word, which no longer means what it once meant.
In fact, I would be willing to bet that in a lot of communities (whether real life or online), the word "ADULT" alone is a red flag.
Good time for 40 winks:
Indiana State University Provost C. Jack Maynard nodded off for 15 minutes of a 20-minute presentation Friday that preceded the ISU Board of Trustees meeting.
Presentations about matters of importance to ISU routinely precede the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees.
I think we need to update the superhero canon to reflect modern sensibilities.
Clearly, this story is too good to pass up, but I'm not quite sure whether to be serious or take the frivolous route:
A girl accused of exposing her breasts on an Indianapolis street cannot argue that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution gives her the freedom to do it, the state's appeals court ruled today.
This is a strange one. From an Indiana University new release (full report is here -- pdf file):
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Cigarette use by Indiana sixth through 12th graders continued to decline, but findings from the 20th Annual Survey of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use also pointed to increases in marijuana use and in tobacco use in pipes.
Roger Clemens has gone from baseball great (11-time All-Star, 354 wins, 4,672 strikeouts, certain Hall of Fame inductee) to sleazy drug-taking cheat in near record time:
You remember the midlife crisis. I certainly remember mine, vaguely. A lot of 20-somethings today don't believe in putting things off, so they're having quarter-life crises. Well, actually, they do believe in putting things off: They're taking an awfully long time to grow up, A New York Times article informs us.
