Some places spook even those who scoff at the supernatural.
Our reporter braved a night in a haunted castle to find out why.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.200-where-do-ghosts-come-from.html?full=true
The long-standing rule of matching wine and food — red wine with red meat and white wine with fish — actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, a Japanese producer and marketer of wine.
Can making something more fun change human behavior for the better? The Swedish seem to think so.
Extreme pumpkin carving might not sound as intense as the envelope-pushing activities of tatted and pierced Gen-X daredevils usually called ‘extreme.
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http://www.asylum.com/2009/10/16/extreme-pumpkin-carving-makes-halloween-edgy-again/
A picture may be worth a thousand words but in monetary terms it’s worth ten thousand pounds. winners of the landscape photographer awards
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http://www.shortlist.com/arts-music/article/landscape-photographer-awards-09/1
Facebook is quietly offering a fix to one of the social-networking service’s most awkward loose ends — what happens to user profiles after they die
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http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1932803,00.html?iid=digg_share
Southwest Airlines has launched an air fare sale in which some flights cost the same as what other carriers charge to check a bag.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20091027/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_air_fare_sale
Take a glimpse of the near future.
Electric vehicles and other types of eco-friendly cars are taking center stage at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show, which runs through November 4.Following the commercial success of Toyota’s hybrid car Prius, Japanese car makers introduced their latest line up of eco-friendly cars.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/27/tokyo.motor.show/index.html
Many consumers are feeling deceived now that SIGG has been outed for failing to tell the public that its bottles were not BPA-free, at least not the ones that were manufactured before August 2008
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1932826,00.html
Apparently exposing someone to a deadly and lifelong disease isn’t a big deal in the court of law.
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http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/10/duluth_man_inte.php
Now that a former female Anheuser-Busch executive has filed a lawsuit claiming the beer company discriminated against her based upon her gender, some wonder if AB is acting a little too much like its target market, with a "locker room and frat party atmosphere" that works against female employees.
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http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2009/10/anheuser_busch_frat_house_images_discrimination_lawsuit.php
When it comes to beauty products, sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Snake venom, bird droppings, snail serum and cow dung are but a few of the industry’s extreme and off-putting ingredients that one might be shocked to know can be slathered about your body.
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http://www.latimes.com/features/image/la-ig-weirdhair25-2009oct25,0,2327232.story
Christopher Hitchen’s talks about debating religious people
Over the past month in Afghanistan it became clear that a Presidential runoff vote between President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah would need to take place.
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/afghanistan_october_2009.html
A global campaign was undertaken in 1950, and within 30 years smallpox was struck from the face of the Earth.
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/26/an-anniversary-worth-celebrating/
Guys who get this scared at carnival ‘haunted houses’ maybe shouldn’t be cops…
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http://www.askmen.com/money/money-news_100/122_halloween-not-for-everyone.html
The most common "ick" foods that are actually good for you”and tasty.
Facebook now has a function allowing you to report that friend is deceased, so that his/her profile can be "memorialized."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/26/how-to-memorialize-f.html
Last week the Obama Administration announced it would not seek to federally prosecute individuals or dispensaries who use or provide medicinal marijuana, as long as they complied with state law.
Instead, a Justice Department memo said, state prosecutors should pursue "significant traffickers" of illegal drugs.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/legalized-marijuana/story?id=8912772
Nearly every basic cookbook offers conflicting techniques on how it should be done”start the egg in cold water, or gently lower it into boiling water; add vinegar to the water to lower its pH, or add baking soda to the water to raise it; cover the pot, don’t cover the pot; use old eggs, or use new eggs, and on and on”but very few offer evidence….
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http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/the-food-lab-science-of-how-to-cook-perfect-boiled-eggs.html
