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...area below the camera where a chest would have been (which the person could see through the goggles). Sure enough, the participants reported that it felt like their vantage point was exactly the same as that of the camera. "You feel quite clearly that you are sitting in the corner of the room, and you see yourself sitting elsewhere. But it's not you," Ehrsson says. To be certain - and to get some harder data - he hooked up his participants to stress-monitoring devices, and then swung a hammer at the space where the illusory chest would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Out-of-Body Experiences | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

Those most likely to benefit from the rain live on the fringes of the storm's heaviest bands, in places like Iowa City, Iowa, in the south-central corner of one of the nation's top soybean-producing states. Drive 100 or so miles north, you might run into floodwater. Drive the same distance to the south, farmers are still praying for rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Rains Better Than Drought? | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...they cause inconsistent aging of the wine. Screwcaps let in less air, and since their cellular composition is man-made, adopters like Bonny Doon say the caps offer a more controlled oxidation process that allows wine to age as the winemaker intended. (Plastic corks, meanwhile, still control a larger corner of the alternative-stopper market than screwcaps, but they're getting edged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Cap on Wine Corks | 8/22/2007 | See Source »

...Every day about 70 to 100 mothers come in here," says Carina Peters, 37, owner of the children's second-hand clothing store Neufundland-Berlin.de. Two boys are playing in the corner, throwing plastic animals around the room. I scowl in their direction as a shark whizzes past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Boom in Berlin | 8/21/2007 | See Source »

...Around the corner is the caf? Alois S., whose owner, a balding 48-year-old named Lothar Heer clad in a Grateful Dead t-shirt, says his original plan was to build a tapas bar. That was 2001, when his establishment stood alongside a playground bearing the scars of communist neglect. After fighting with sluggish city bureaucrats for a couple of years, Heer got permission to break open the walls and open a terrace out onto the playground. Then, he and some local parents formed a citizens group and applied for and were actually awarded some 20,000 euros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Boom in Berlin | 8/21/2007 | See Source »

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