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Facebook Ate My Homework

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: New Technology, Hula-Hoops, Social Networking, Writing, Facebook, Comedy, Social Media, Comedy News
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

Facebook ate my homework. In fact, for about three months there, late last year, Facebook ate my marriage, my Yoga practice, the screenplay I'm working on, my email correspondence, my housework, my homework... and my entire head.

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The Secret History Behind Your Favorite Classic Toys

| Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Slinky, Tinkertoys, View Master, Hula Hoops, History of Classic Toys, Classic Toys, Lincoln Logs, Silly String, Sock Monkey, Magic 8 Ball, Crayola Crayons, Parents News

By Casey Mullins There are some toys that just seem to stand the test of time. Toys that I played with as a little girl that are now popular with m...

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Six Unusual Things I Learned From Hula Hooping

James Altucher | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Girls, Divorce, Children, Hula-Hoops, Fatherhood, Parenting, Hula-Hoop, Parents, Fathers, Parents-Dads, Parents News
James Altucher

When I was first living on my own after ten years of marriage and my kids were visiting me every two weeks I didn't know what to do with them. So I did the only thing I knew to do with them. I overbooked them.

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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The First 'Get Your Wellness On' Fair Has Already Saved A Life

Esmeralda Williamson-Noble | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Esmeralda Williamson-Noble, NYU Suicide, Hula-Hoops, Olympic Silver Medalist Tim Morehouse, Andrew Williamson-Noble, Suicide, Washington Square Park, Tim Morehouse, Hoopnotica, Alternative Healing Practitioners, Alternative Healing, Guided Meditation, Get Your Wellness On, Reiki Healers, Reiki, Bobst Library, Suicide Awareness & Prevention, Hatha-Yoga, Holistic Mentorship Network, Chi Gong, Bost, Impact News
Esmeralda Williamson-Noble

With the help and support of friends and readers, I organized the first Get Your Wellness On -- A Suicide Awareness & Prevention Fair to create opportunities where we can be of help to the over 33,000 people die of suicide every year in the U.S.

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