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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: The Grandfather Part II | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Recap: "The Promotion" | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Being able to walk into Louie’s and get yourself a case of Dos Equis without resorting to groveling at Mr. Chen’s feet? Been there, done that. Harvard-Yale? Hard to believe, but winning gets old after the 804913th time. Primal scream? Yawn...

Author: By Liyun Jin | Title: Upper...Fail. | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Kevin Czinger breaks free of midtown Manhattan's heart-attack traffic and floors what would be the gas pedal in a more conventional car, the only sound is the hiss of the rain outside and something like an accelerating yawn from the electric motor. Czinger is showing off his company's battery-powered car, the Coda Automotive sedan, which emerged in public this June. As one more car to save the planet, the Coda is nice enough. It gets around 100 miles per charge, handles well and - unlike many of its competitors - actually exists in drivable form and not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electric Cars: China's Power Play | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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