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Bring the Kids. If you're traveling to New York City with your brood, the Pod Hotel has five newly renovated Townhouse Suites that each sleep four. Less townhouses and more like lofts, the suites each have a queen bed and two trundle beds amid the groovy Lucite globe swing chairs, beanbags and rocking chairs, as well as flat-screen TVs and free wi-fi. If it's warm enough outside, you can hang out at the hotel's outdoor café or rooftop deck. Rates start at $199 per night. If you're traveling alone, you can book...
Rapport also conducted a control experiment with the boys in which they watched the pod-racing scene from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. He showed me a video of a couple of the boys watching the scene, and I was shocked: even the ADHD kids who had spun around endlessly during their cognitive tests sat perfectly still while they watched the pod race. The film clip required almost no working memory, no concentrated effort. The scene simply washed over the passively watching boys, none of whom had to move around to stay alert...
...their fifties, has somehow managed to tap into the pleasure portions of my brain. And it’s admittedly terrible stuff. It’s cheesy, unrealistic, and incredibly sappy.But what’s wrong with that?Here’s how I imagine a conversation between i-Pod boy and his friend probably sounds like:“What are you listening to, man?”“The Sad Porcupines.”“Who?”“Oh, you probably haven’t heard them yet. They?...
...July, he “decided to bite the bullet and file the paperwork.” Since the first week of September, he has been interning at the Obama for America National Campaign Headquarters in Chicago. He works for the office’s “south pod,” the main communications hub for all the southern states...
...brokerages for each unique account per institution, $250,000 on deposits in retirement accounts and $100,000 on deposits per person per bank, although there's a movement afoot in Congress to raise that limit to $250,000. With something like a revocable trust or POD (payable on death) account, you are guaranteed up to $100,000 per named beneficiary...