Midwest Marvels (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
With my stomach in the sand and the sun beating down, I peer through my camera lens up at an enormous fiberglass sculpture to get the absolute best angle. A man looks down at me and asks, “Why do you want a picture of this old thing?” When I explain that I’ve driven for countless hours searching for the biggest, the smallest, the oddest, the most mysterious and the one-and-only across the

The toothpaste truth test
There was a time when we chose a toothpaste simply because we liked the taste. Not any more.

Popular pirates (The Battalion)
The youngsters that made Pok mon a household word have carried their mania for popular culture movements with them into their early 20s.

Regular brushing, flossing can prevent bad breath
This week’s expert is Dr. Thomas L. Quinn, owner and operator of Quinn Dental in Springfield for the past 30 years.

‘Sexual Healing’ puts viewers in uncomfortable position (Boston Globe)
There’s a lot of nervous giggling during “Sexual Healing,” a new Showtime reality series from producers Joe and Harry Gantz of HBO’s “Taxicab Confessions.” As couples share their sexual problems and fantasies with therapist Laura Berman, they frequently laugh through their words. They sound both giddy to be giving up long-held shame and fearful of leaving their private safety zones.

Bad Breath Detector (Wired News)
The Kiss Me Meter detects halitosis before your partner does. In Gear Factor.

MEMS bad breath detector
July 11th, 2006 by Paz in Miscellaneous Gadgets Here’s an interesting one - ‘ it’s a bad breath detector! If you get lucky at the disco you can quickly check yourself out with the meter and buy one of those …

Reading the words halitosis or jasmine activates the olfactory areas of the brain (News-Medical-Net)
There are words whose power to evoke sensations has become proverbial. Just hearing them brings to mind the image, sound or feeling of that little fragment of reality they refer to.