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What’s Hot in New Home Trends for 2013?
Green, cutting edge, technological, luxurious, and entertaining are adjectives that best describe where housing trends are heading. While the word trends suggest a fleeting fancy, the forecast suggests that we are on the cutting edge of some fantastic innovations that are not only here to stay, but will continue to grow and evolve, influencing potential future home trends.
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Hollywood Trend of the Year? Movies to Die For
Say goodbye to the world, and hello to this summer's post-apocalyptic film frenzy.
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What Is the Deal With Green Pants This Year?
The Gentleman Scholar inked this question in the margin of his commonplace book a couple months ago, scratching a note to self alongside a draft of a villanelle, a recipe for a Paloma variation, and a doodle of an octopod xylophonist.
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Platt: Why Restaurants Are Louder Than Ever
A look at the most disruptive restaurant trend over the past decade.
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Gangnam Style Is One Year Old, And Music Is Forever Different
Gangnam Style came out a year ago today. I still remember exactly where I was the first time I heard (and saw) Gangnam Style...
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Is 'Unicorning' The New Planking?
Internet geeks have entertained themselves by planking, Tebowing, owling and Vadering, but a new meme is horning in on the action literally. It's called "unicorning," and it basically requires people to wear rubber unicorn masks in inappropriate settings, which is essentially everywhere.
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Whose is Putting Coke and Pepsi Out of Business?
Brace yourself for one of the biggest wealth booms ever as early investors ride this healthy beverage explosion that’s capturing billions from the $74.3 billion dollar soda industry.
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The 7 Most Baffling Porn Trends Across the United States
In an effort to answer the burning question that nobody asked, PornHub recently released the top three most searched for words state to state in the U.S. The results have been enlightening, yet horrifying.
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Taste the Trend: Make a ‘Spaghetti’ Sundae
Have ice cream and a Ziploc bag? You can try New York’s newest dessert craze: the Spaghetti Sundae.
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Are E-Cigarettes a Boon or a Menace?
A new study says electronic cigarettes could help people quit smoking. But doctors worry that the battery-operated nicotine inhalers carry major risks.
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Do Blues Musicians Need to be Really, Really Old?
It seems that to be a famous blues musician you have to be over 65—or dead. Ted Gioia goes in search of the youth movement in blues with five artists to listen to now.
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Are Smartphones Emasculating? The Marketing of Google Glass
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is using masculinity as a metaphor for power to appeal to the elite.
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The rise of the text tattoo
It probably wasn't on Shakespeare's radar that his work would one day unite Megan Fox, Danielle Lineker and Lindsay Lohan. But it has - they all have Shakespeare quotations tattooed on their bodies. Why are more people getting such high-brow inkings?
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Goat Meat, a Hot Product
The demand for goat meat is strong, said Adams, president of the Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Meat Goat Producers Association.
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The 10 Stealth Economic Trends That Rule the World Today
Old trends: Soaring US carbon dioxide emissions, skyrocketing medical costs, out-of-control deficits. New trends: Tumbling emissions, creeping medical costs, falling deficits.
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Top 40 Looks From London Fashion Week
The London collections were a display of embellishment, pastel hues and 90s street in effortless silhouettes creating an anarchic femininity suitable to the new wave of no rules fashion.
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Vaping Is the Fanboy-Charged Future of Cigarettes and Weed
The nucleus of the vape community is ex-smokers eager to spread the good word, or ”ANTZ” as the jargon goes—Anti-Nicotine and Tobacco Zealots. Others are just plain seduced by the technology.
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The most popular girls names in the USA over the past six decades
This is pretty awesome – a chronological look at the most popular girls names by state from 1960 to 2012. Amazing to see trends in naming sweep the nation, from a near total embrace of Mary in the early 60s to Lisa dominating in the mid 60s, to Jennifer’s supremacy throughout the 70s, to the rise of Ashley, Emily, and Emma in more recent years.
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In Belgium, a Housewares Designer Finds Transcendence in Simplicity
Using basic geometries and the most elemental of materials, the Belgian designer Michael Verheyden creates objects of sublime beauty and remarkable spiritual power.
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How To Do Movember Without Looking Like the Office Tool
It’s that time of year again when your Facebook and Instagram are overrun by photos of guys begging you to check out their facial hair. If you’re participating this year, here are my suggestions for how to support the cause without sacrificing your dignity.
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