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April 27, 2012
2012 St. Louis Food Blogger Bake Sale April 28 at Sappington Farmers' Market
Warning: The mental images produced by the following descriptions of items offered at the 2012 St. Louis Food Blogger Bake Sale might cause uncontrollable cravings and excessive salivation. The second annual St. Louis event is part of a national effort to benefit Share Our Strength, the nation's lea ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
Astronaut Andre Kuipers Should Be Your Twitter Friend
Andre Kuipers is part of the 31st permanent crew on the International Space Station, and only the second Dutch astronaut to make it to space. In addition to being a doctor, a scientist and teacher, Kuipers is also a photographer. His bilingual Twitter feed is a daily treasure trove of scientific won ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
The Five Most Memorable Last Suppers Served Before History's Most Avoidable Disasters
Yesterday, Gut Check shared our thoughts on the Fabulous Fox Theatre's tasteless $500 fundraising event that recreates the eleven-course meal that Titanic's first passengers ate the night the ship sank. In honor of the iceberg that shortchanged Titanic's maiden voyage, Gut Check has compiled a list ... More >>
News
April 5, 2012
One Nation, Under Tacos: How Mexican food conquered America
Yesterday, Gut Check shared our thoughts on the Fabulous Fox Theatre's tasteless $500 fundraising event that recreates the eleven-course meal that Titanic's first passengers ate the night the ship sank. In honor of the iceberg that shortchanged Titanic's maiden voyage, Gut Check has compiled a list ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
The International Space Station -- and Beyond
Yesterday, Gut Check shared our thoughts on the Fabulous Fox Theatre's tasteless $500 fundraising event that recreates the eleven-course meal that Titanic's first passengers ate the night the ship sank. In honor of the iceberg that shortchanged Titanic's maiden voyage, Gut Check has compiled a list ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft
Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention, porn's fi ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Missouri Gets a C in Science Education -- And It's One of the Better Students
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute for Advancing Educational Excellence just released its comprehensive State of State Science Standards 2012 report, which grades each state on how it teaches science to students, and Missouri ranked in the top twenty. Sadly that's no better than a C grade, as the Fo ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
Wash. U. Scientists Use Brain Scans to Prove ADD Meds Really Work
courtesy Washington UniversityA sample PET scan. The image on the right is brighter, which means it shows lower dopamine levels.Though it seems like every kid who used to be labeled "hyperactive" now has attention deficit disorder, not all forms of ADD are the same, and some treatments can wo ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Steve Jobs' Six Best Music Innovations
Apple (the Beatles record label) once sued Apple (the computer corporation). After initial squabbles over the right to name their companies after the same fruit, the two agreed that all was good as long as Steve Jobs and crew never entered the music business. As you can probably guess, as you likely ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2011
One in Three Missouri Teens Don't Wear Seat Belts
Maybe it's time to bring back the crash test dummies?Missourians continue to lag the nation when it comes to using seat belts, according a new report.The study found that just 79 percent of the general population in Missouri wear seat belts. The national average is 85 percent. Missouri's ranking ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
The Last Space Shuttle Launch And Obsolete Music-Delivery Systems
Friday morning's scheduled space shuttle launch, the last of 135 missions flown by the orbiters, marks the exact moment at which a space-travel technology from 1981 finally becomes obsolete. That's right: If you'd just overbuilt your music collection like NASA did with Atlantis, you could s ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Wash. U. Docs Can Tell You What Happened Last Time You Blacked Out
image viaWhere did it go? The researchers at Wash. U. know.This is a special message for all you folks out there who occasionally drink to excess. A team of researchers at Washington University Medical School has figured out what happened to you last time you blacked out! OK, they can't expl ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Vandals Destroy Archaeological Dig at Southern Illinois - Edwardsville
SIUE - Archaeology Field SchoolMembers of the school dig along the site in 2010.Excavating equipment and historical artifacts are missing after vandals looted and destroyed an archaeological dig on the campus of Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville over the weekend. As the Belleville News- ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2011
Spotify's US Launch Approaches; Which Music Service Are You?
Music fans in the United States don't have a lot to envy of their European brothers and sisters, at least unless they're big fans of Abba or the kind of sticky, glitter-covered dance-pop that usually just makes me really want to leave the youth hostel and brush my teeth. One exception: Spotif ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
E-Readers May Replace Textbooks in Missouri School District
Gee Sally, I sure would like to carry your Kindle home from school for ya.It was bound to happen. E-readers, which for the last few years have been embraced by book lovers, are now being used for the sort of reading that isn't quite as pleasurable. The Associated Press is reporting that o ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Missouri Congressman Wants to Kill Funding for Climate Change
Luetkemeyer: Insert tinfoil hat above.Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-9th District) is proud of his view that global warming is a myth. So proud, in fact, that last weekend he attached a provision onto a budget bill that would ban the United States from funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
St. Louis Photographer Takes Eat-Rite to the Smithsonianan. Again.
In 2007 Jane Linders, an artist specializing in alternative-process photography, took her Polaroid to the corner of Chouteau and 7th to nab a piece of St. Louis' Route 66 history. She captured the original Eat-Rite Diner, still serving slingers and bags of burgers for over 60 years, in a gritty, omi ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
ClaireMcCaskill.com Officially Worth $4,000
How much would you pay for this web domain?From the Department of Why the Hell Didn't We Think of That?: The Post-Dispatch reports that a Columbia-based web designer named Brennan Hobart noticed that Senator Claire McCaskill's website was called claireonline.com. Hobart suspected that the do ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2011
New Study Suggests Red-Light Cameras Significantly Reduce Fatal Accidents
Cameras save lives, says study. But at what cost? Here's one for all you red-light camera haters: A study released yesterday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) suggests that cameras saved 159 lives in the fourteen biggest U.S. cities that used the technology from 2004 through 20 ... More >>
News
January 27, 2011
The RFT 2011 St. Louis Web Awards: Best Food Blog
Cameras save lives, says study. But at what cost? Here's one for all you red-light camera haters: A study released yesterday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) suggests that cameras saved 159 lives in the fourteen biggest U.S. cities that used the technology from 2004 through 20 ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Mizzou Scientists Watch Memories Get Made
image viaScans of the brain at work during the Semantic Fluency Test in which research subjects were asked to think of words from a specific category, like "food" or "animals".In order to make more money, people who make digital cameras and printer paper will tell you that their products are ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Hot Enough For You?
image viaScans of the brain at work during the Semantic Fluency Test in which research subjects were asked to think of words from a specific category, like "food" or "animals".In order to make more money, people who make digital cameras and printer paper will tell you that their products are ... More >>
Music
December 9, 2010
An interview with Vince DiFiore on the eve of (finally!) a new Cake album
image viaScans of the brain at work during the Semantic Fluency Test in which research subjects were asked to think of words from a specific category, like "food" or "animals".In order to make more money, people who make digital cameras and printer paper will tell you that their products are ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Left Bank, Subterranean Books Now Selling Google eBooks
As of this morning, two of St. Louis's proudly independent bookstores have joined in the digital revolution: Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop and Left Bank Books in the Central West End and downtown are now offering Google eBooks on their respective websites. Both stores have been selli ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2010
Chipotle Offers Facebook Users Buy One, Get One Free Deal
...or without eating a few burritos.Have you seen The Social Network? You should. It's a great movie. One of my favorite parts is a brief moment when Mark Zuckerberg (as played by Jesse Eisenberg) is brainstorming what will become Facebook. On a dry-erase board he's made three columns to compare ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Just How Tall Were the Dinosaurs?
Everybody knows the dinosaurs were super-tall, but a University of Missouri anatomy professor has just proven everybody wrong. The dinosaurs weren't just super-tall. They were super-duper tall. The extra height, Casey Holliday and his team of researchers discovered, came from cartilage between the d ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2010
4G Mobile Internet Service Launches in St. Louis Today
Image sourceThe Sprint EVO.Gosh, and it seemed like only yesterday when everybody was lining up at the Apple Store for the 3G iPhone... Now of course that is all totally passe, especially since 4G service will only be offered through Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, not AT&T, exclusive servicer o ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2010
Local Protesters of Big Oil to Put Hands Across the Sand, Er, Mud and Silt
Hands Across the SandOn Saturday, dozens of St. Louisans will gather on the riverfront beneath the Arch to hold hands in a silent protest against offshore oil drilling. Local event organizer Stacey Critzer anticipates 50, maybe even 100 participants. It's not exactly Hands Across America, but the ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2010
Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms: The Supreme Court Rules, Everyone Claims Victory
Image viaEven Alfalfa is smiling about yesterday's ruling on alfalfa.Gut Check hasn't read much case law since our high-school debate career ended and our briefcase (and trophies!) went into storage in our parents' garage. However, we were fairly certain that when the Supreme Court issued a rulin ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2010
Mall Employee Gets Kinda Naked to Protest Oil Extraction in Canada
Lush employee Rachael Wall protests mining the Canadian Tar Sands. Click to view larger version.Editor's note: Daily RFT sent able-bodied intern Steve Hardy to the Galleria today to report on one of the most earnest protests ever held on a Wednesday afternoon in a mostly vacant shopping mall. Bel ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2010
Burn! Scientists Say Missouri and Illinois Pay Billions to Import Coal
Image sourceA gift to clean energy advocates from the Union of Concerned ScientistsA report on coal imports from the Union of Concerned Scientists was just about a month too late for the Great Coal Debate at Washington University.,It's a pity too, because the environmental activist group found th ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2010
Jonathan Katz: Wash U Prof Tapped By Obama to Solve Gulf Oil Crisis is "Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist"
Image sourceJonathan Katz describes himself as "a homophobe and proud"Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz is part of a five-man team of the nation's "best scientific minds" assembled by the Obama administration to help BP stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. He' ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
How to Identify a Census Worker
Behold a census worker. A census worker won't:sell you Girl Scout cookies (or anything else). stalk you, but he (or she) will knock on your door up to three times. come inside your house. (So, don't even ask.)Still unclear about what a census worker will and won't do? You're in luck! Daily RFT ju ... More >>
News
March 3, 2010
A Blogger's Baker's Dozen: The RFT staff presents a sampler of St. Louis' must-read contributors to the blogosphere
Behold a census worker. A census worker won't:sell you Girl Scout cookies (or anything else). stalk you, but he (or she) will knock on your door up to three times. come inside your house. (So, don't even ask.)Still unclear about what a census worker will and won't do? You're in luck! Daily RFT ju ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2010
Global Warming & Meteorologists: A "Hot" Topic?
reedypress.comCorrigan says everything in Missouri is political, even the weather. Is global warming real?Finally, somebody has asked the experts. Thank you, Don Corrigan, editor and co-publisher of the Webster-Kirkwood and South County Times newspapers. In his new book, Show Me Nature's Wrath, a ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
Mac Users Get Google Chrome (Finally)
Yesterday Google made the the beta version of the Chrome Web browser available for Mac and Linux users. This is almost exactly a year after the browser was launched (in beta) for Windows. Why the long delay? Nobody knows. It's very likely the case that Google was concentrating its efforts at aimi ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2009
Forget Texting While Driving, Local News is all About Sexting (It's Sextier)
Not Sexty: State Rep. Don Wells This week, state representative Don Wells (R - Cabool) introduced legislation that would make it illegal for all drivers in Missouri to text while behind the wheel. In August, legislators passed similar legislation that prohibits people under the age of 21 from tex ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2009
Blurring the Lines of Dis- and Over-Abled
Here we see Steve Austin training for the next Olympic games. But will he be allowed to compete? There's an outstanding article over at Gizmodo right now everyone, and I do mean everyone, should read. It's an article by Aimee Mullins, whose name you may not be all that familiar with, but you shou ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2009
St. Louis Sex Blogger "The Beautiful Kind" Near Tippy-Top of the Heap
Unreal likes to think we knew her when...Yep, we stumbled across local sex blogger The Beautiful Kind back in early 2007, when she was getting down and dirty with a bull penis.
Blogs
September 9, 2009
9.9.09 Beatles or Not? Apple's Big Announcement is Today
Today is the day when we find out if my prediction that Apple will be the first to release digital versions of the Beatles catalog at the "iPod event" comes true. I'm sort of leaning against my prediction since Apple named the event for a Rolling Stones song; "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" Whe ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2009
Bad News Teens: New State Law Prohibits Minors From Texting and Driving
The good news? It's still legal to sext and drive. No. Seriously. Don't do that either. The new Missouri law prohibiting drivers under 21 years in age from texting while behind wheel goes into effect Friday. Missouri is the 23rd state to ban texting while driving, but is one of only nine to sing ... More >>
Music
August 26, 2009
Digital Love: Checking back in with local Internet radio station 3WK
The good news? It's still legal to sext and drive. No. Seriously. Don't do that either. The new Missouri law prohibiting drivers under 21 years in age from texting while behind wheel goes into effect Friday. Missouri is the 23rd state to ban texting while driving, but is one of only nine to sing ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2009
Apple Name-Checks Highway Farty (Sorta)
Unreal's got nothing against Apple, but we were briefly puzzled to see, amid the computer maker/geek cult's hype for the newest iteration of its OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, the highway sign for Interstate 64:What could this mean?
Blogs
July 27, 2009
Are You Ready to Augment Your Reality? [Fun With iPhone]
Most people have heard of virtual reality and probably have at least some vague idea of what that is. But have you heard of augmented reality? Well it's coming to your iPhone 3gs this fall. In case you don't know what augmented reality is (and unless you're a sci-fi geek you probably don't) it's a h ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2009
Speaking of Cell Phones, Did You Know July is Cell Phone Courtesy Month?
www.coudal.com/shhhcards.pdfEarlier this afternoon we brought you news that the first cell phone call was made in St. Louis 25 years ago today. Had we waited five minutes before publishing that post, we could have informed you then that July is also "Cell Phone Courtesy Month." (At least, according ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2009
Missouri Gets $23 Million for Clean Energy
flickr.com/photos/jkgrooveRep. Russ Carnahan office today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has released $22.9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Missouri."As Congress continues working on comprehensive e ... More >>
Dining
June 24, 2009
Gut Check: Ian taps into the tasty world of St. Louis-area food bloggers
flickr.com/photos/jkgrooveRep. Russ Carnahan office today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has released $22.9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Missouri."As Congress continues working on comprehensive e ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2009
The iPhone Revolution
see more Lolcats and funny picturesFans of the iPhone lined up at Apple and AT&T stores all around the country on Friday hoping to be among the first to snag the new iPhone 3G S. The newest addition to Apple's popular line of phones that I told you might be coming a couple of weeks ago. Apple lo ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2009
Do You Have a Facesquatting Problem?
moar funny picturesThousands of Facebook users made a mad dash to reserve their unique Facebook URL's on Friday night. Did you get yours? Oh wait ... you mean you had better things to do late on a Friday night? This seemingly over-hyped event seemed to go off without a hitch. Facebook didn't crash a ... More >>
Music
June 10, 2009
Blast Off: German free-jazz legend Peter Brötzmann makes his first trip to St. Louis
moar funny picturesThousands of Facebook users made a mad dash to reserve their unique Facebook URL's on Friday night. Did you get yours? Oh wait ... you mean you had better things to do late on a Friday night? This seemingly over-hyped event seemed to go off without a hitch. Facebook didn't crash a ... More >>
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