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...context of the historic lightheartedness of the Golden Globes, which had its original journalist-presenter format hijacked in 1958 when the whiskey-toting Rat Pack rushed the stage and took over the show, the break in levity this year came as something as a surprise. Political statements are associated more with the Academy Awards. Sure, funny things still happened. (Ryan Bingham completely missing his Best Song award while buying drinks at the bar comes to mind.) But the celebration's muted atmosphere was summed up by Jason Reitman's acceptance speech in which he discussed...
That helps explain why some consumers are hedging their bets by hopping on a NeuroActive Brain Bike. The $4,000 machine debuted a year ago at Lady of America fitness centers, where members - who tend to be older than the average gym rat - quickly fell for the cardio-cognitive combo. "Instead of mindlessly watching TV" while pedaling, says Gerry Weber, CEO of Lady of America, which has 300 women's-fitness franchises worldwide, "they're able to exercise their brain at the same time...
...Foursquare map to help you meet up with friends. Check in enough times from a coffee shop, for example, and you're dubbed its mayor. Give a shout-out from your gym 10 times in a month, and you might get a badge that dubs you a "Gym Rat." That gaming component is the site's secret sauce - one that pushed it past 150,000 users before...
...subsequent work on steroids occurred in Nazi Germany; doctors reportedly dosed troops with testosterone to give them an aggressive edge on the battlefield, and even Hitler himself was injected with steroids. But the science of that era is so shrouded in secrecy that it's Maryland physician - and gym rat - John Ziegler who is usually given credit for first creating anabolic steroids. After reportedly learning that Soviet weightlifters at the 1954 World Weightlifting Championships in Vienna were getting a boost from testosterone, he returned home eager to give U.S. lifters a similar up. But Ziegler's early attempts at dosing...
...stage but in a dark viewing room in Los Angeles, in teleconferences with collaborating artists from Peter Jackson's Weta Digital studio in Wellington, New Zealand. The real world was being used to inform the fictional one: an energy map of the Pandoran forest was modeled on rat neurons; hours were spent getting alien sap to drip precisely right. (See the 10 worst video game movies...