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...Kravitz and his research team have been documenting, on video, exactly how far fruit flies are willing to go for their prize. In this fight club, the arena is a small dish, in the center of which is either a patch of food or the head of a female. (If she weren't decapitated, she wouldn't stay put, says Kravitz; and the males, being male, don't seem to care that she's not that lively.) Based on hours of footage, Kravitz says that male flies tend to use specific combat skills such as rearing up on their hind...
...even Internet-based news, with all its “convenience” and “speed” and “accessibility,” needs gimmicks to attract readers. Apparently, if you send your picture to the people at Cantabrigia, you get a prize...
...Siem Reap), Beverly Hills, Beijing and Dubai. You've got to do some work for this one, so sharpen your pencil and your writing skills, and send in a description of either your dream stay at Raffles or what your best travel experience at Raffles has been. The first prize is five nights in a Presidential Suite; five runners-up get two nights at any of the seven properties. Enter by May 30. See the website for details...
...pitching the sale of MySpace to Murdoch: On its own, [parent company] Intermix was not much of a prize. It owned a bunch of websites offering games like bingo and animated fart jokes that users could e-mail to one another. It was barely profitable. It had been sued by New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer for distributing spyware inside screen savers, screen cursors and games...
Things I would never think to write a song about: tax software programs, White House cabinet members, Paul Krugman. Now, I might write a song about Maureen Dowd (tentative title: "I Wish You Would Disappear"), but Krugman? Yes, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist has a gift for breaking down complicated economic situations into easily digestible concepts, but he rarely inspires within me a sense of passion. Apparently songwriter Jonathan Mann disagrees...