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Word of MouthHormones on Wall StreetBy Avishay Artsy on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.Forget behavioral economics - the Naked Scientists science podcast interviews John Coates from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, who is investigating the hormonal basis for bubbles and crashes. He's calling it "endocrinal economics": Add new comment
Cooking RemotelyBy Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
And now, video game developers are tapping into our culinary aspirations with a new menu of products. You can now use your Wii controller to slice, dice, sauté and stir-fry several dishes at once – no splatters and no messy kitchen to clean up afterwards. In the game "Hell’s Kitchen," based on the hit Fox TV show,"wannabe restaurateurs slice and dice their way through each episode, vying for chef Gordan Ramsay's attention." In "Iron Chef" the Wii remote becomes your hand as you hold a knife, spoon, or sauté pan handle and chop, stir, tilt or flick. Of course, there won’t be any real food to eat when your done either. Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan reviews some of these games in today’s paper, and he joins us live on the line. Click here to read his article. And watch the video below: The Raw Food DivideBy Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.Here’s a way to cut down on energy: food you don’t need to cook. Imagine how much fuel we’d save by eating only salads of raw fruits and vegetables served at room temperature.
Lessley Anderson has followed the growth of the raw food movement. She’s senior editor at the food website CHOW.com, and she joins us now from San Francisco. Click here to read her article. (Photo of raw pizza by francistoms) High Fashion At Bargain RatesBy Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
There was a time when buying high fashion brands from a giant retail store would be unthinkable, but over the past few years, Stella McCartney, Karl Lagerfeld and others have sold limited edition clothing to the masses at stores like Target and H&M. Rob Walker is author of Buying In, and writes the weekly "Consumed" column for The New York Times Magazine, and he says the current economic downturn may mean more merging of fashion’s high and lowbrow. Redefining RiversBy Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
Where's My Jetpack?!By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.I grew up in the waning years of the space age. Cars no longer had big fins, but the Russians were still the bad guys, and the Jetsons were still on TV.
Last month, Eric Scott jet-packed across a 1,500-foot wide Colorado canyon – he could only stay in the air for about thirty seconds. Why can we send a man to the moon, but only fly with a jetpack for under a minute? That question frustrates Mac Montandon. At 35, Mac suspected he was having a premature mid-life crisis, couldn’t afford a Porsche, and traveled the world in search of his childhood dream: to fly a jetpack. He tells the story in his new book Jetpack Dreams: One Man’s Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was. Mac joins us with more on the history, and possible future, of the jetpack. Watch a trailer for Jetpack Dreams from Mac Montandon: And watch a video of Eric Scott's 9-second flight: (Photo of Lost in Space, with stars June Lockhart and Guy Williams, a pop culture touchstone for jetpack obsessives the world over.) DIY Holiday Gift IdeasBy Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, December 2, 2008.The holiday shopping season kicked off better than expected last Friday. If you still have names to cross off your list, consider skipping the big-box department store and making something by hand.
We invited Eric Wilhelm, founder of Instructables.com to join us with some ideas, including a marshmallow shooter, an "invisible bookshelf," an arc light reactor inspired by the movie Iron Man, and an iPod speaker made out of a Hallmark music card and a cereal box. And if you’re in Boston this coming Sunday it’d be worth dropping by the Bazaar Bizarre, Boston’s annual DIY holiday craft fair. It’s held at the Castle at Park Plaza between noon and 7 pm. The World's Stolen TreasuresBy Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, December 2, 2008.The Guardian newspaper reported this weekend that a crumbling palace built by Saddam Hussein may be restored as a museum in Basra, Iraq. The port city’s original museum was looted in the 1991 Gulf War. Some of its antiquities stretched back some 5,000 years, including pieces from the ancient site of Eridu, thought to be the first city in the world.
Sharon Waxman is former culture reporter for The New York Times, and she's the author of Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World. The new book digs into the dark history and current controversies in the contentious world of humanity’s ancient treasures. Sharon Waxman joins Word of Mouth on the line from her home in southern California. Sharon will be appearing at the Cambridge Forum in Cambridge, MA tomorrow evening, Dec. 3. There's more information here. Teaching Your Brain to DriveBy Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, December 2, 2008.
The video games are developed by the California company PositScience, and are part of a broader effort to use games to enhance brain plasticity. Jeff Zimman, CEO and cofounder of PositScience, was quoted as saying, "we're at the beginning of a revolution in brain fitness that is akin to the physical fitness craze that took off in the 1970s." PositScience research scientist Peter Delahunt joins Word of Mouth with more on the program. Watch a trailer for "Brain Fitness 2: Sight & Sound" on PBS: (Photo by Kyle May) Search usPodcastWord of Mouth is on the move! Sign up for our podcast and take the show wherever you go. Contact usSay what you want to say. How you want to say it. We want to hear from you. About usWord of Mouth is all about what's new. Online and on-air, the show looks at our fascinating and ever-changing world, and puts the latest ideas under a microscope. Word of Mouth investigates everything from science and technology, to health and the environment, to new trends in popular culture. The show airs Monday through Thursday at noon and is hosted by Virginia Prescott. Support From
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