Bad news for those of you who assumed yoga was curing all that ails you: A new study found no evidence that yoga’s mental effects benefit the body. The good news is that yoga does help to relieve lower back pain, the Wall Street Journal reports. However, stretching was found…
Continue reading …Herman Cain’s new campaign video is generating lots of attention, but not because of 9-9-9 or 9-0-9 or anything remotely related to policy. It’s all about a cigarette: The video (it’s in the gallery at left) features chief of staff Mark Block praising his boss for about half a minute….
Continue reading …A Long Island couple—or, as New York magazine more appropriately puts it, some totally “random” Long Island couple—has filed to trademark “Occupy Wall Street.” You see, the movement has the potential to become a “global brand,” say Robert and Diane Maresca and, as Robert tells the Smoking Gun…
Continue reading …The Deep South isn’t exactly the place you think of when you hear “northern lights.” But the aurora borealis was in fact visible from Oklahoma City, Memphis, and Atlanta last night, hundreds of miles farther south than is typical. “A storm on the sun’s surface was blown off, and the…
Continue reading …With presidential election cycles now topping $1.7 billion, you might think fundraisers have tapped every possible way of raking in money. You’d be wrong. The “holy grail” of fundraising remains the mobile phone, and, with 83% of adults owning one, political operatives are working furiously to add cell phones…
Continue reading …Jon Huntsman and Stephen Colbert had some fun last night over their respective religions (both of which have been called cults) and income levels (the 1%), spoke some Mandarin, and discussed plans for Colbert to be Huntsman’s running mate. But arguably the most important part of the Colbert Report interview…
Continue reading …It’s one of astronomy’s oldest mysteries—Chinese astronomers in AD 185 discovered a “guest star” that appeared in the sky for about eight months. Modern scientists have for decades believed it to be the first documented sighting of a supernova, but what kind of supernova was it? At long last,…
Continue reading …Nobody loves working pitching matchups like Tony La Russa, so it was a bit surprising when he let lefty Marc Rzepczynski in to pitch to Mike Napoli with the bases loaded last night. Napoli knocked a double off him, scoring what would be the two winning runs. But what happened…
Continue reading …Things could soon get ugly in Atlanta, as Mayor Kasim Reed intends to boot Occupy protesters from Woodruff Park—while protesters have no intention of going quietly. Reed announced yesterday that he will void his order allowing protesters to stay in the park until Nov. 7. Demonstrators responded with their…
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