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...observer's money, the most memorable finish of the Vancouver Olympics to date. It made you seriously wonder why this sport doesn't garner more attention in the U.S. as well as admire Europe's good taste in obsessing over an event that Americans foolishly offer a big fat yawn. After all, what's more engrossing than a good old-fashioned race to the finish...
Washington commissions and hearings are often yawn-inspiring affairs. But this one, officially called the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), could trigger some fireworks in part because of the severe damage caused by the financial-industry meltdown. What's more, the commission's chair Phil Angelides, a Democrat and former California state treasurer, has already come out swinging against Wall Street, calling the bonuses financial firms are planning to hand out soon for last year "unjustifiably wrong." So it's no real surprise that the first ones to be in the hot seat are the bankers themselves. (See pictures...
...Yawn. Monday night's Gossip Girl sucked. Not only did the people we care least about get the most screen time, but people we don't care about but sort of have a vested interest in given their screen time earlier this season seemed to have fallen off the face of the earth. Oh well. Storyline ratings after the jump...
...Yawn. FlyBy just watched the latest episode of The Office (“The Promotion”) and it was thoroughly unremarkable. Don’t get us wrong—we LOVE The Office. But this week’s episode seemed like filler material. Didn't you think so? See our evaluation after the jump...
...explain in the book that empathy really starts with our bodies: running together, laughing together, yawning together. So yawning really is contagious? Yeah. Dogs catch yawns from their owners. Chimpanzees yawn [in response to those] that we show them. Yawn contagion is very interesting because it's a very deep bodily connection between humans or between animals. Humans who have problems with empathy, such as autistic children, don't have yawn contagion. It's either because they don't pay attention to the yawns of others or they're not affected by them. (Read about the secrets inside your...