Getty Images Listen up, all you anti-eBook luddites out there. Sure, we can all agree that there’s something special about the experience of holding a well-worn book in your hands. But according to the New York Times, that book — especially if it’s hardcover, and especially if it came from a public library — might be home to bedbugs. Eek.
So say what you will about eReaders, but NewsFeed is pretty sure they’re less likely to house vermin. Read More...
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August 19, 1929 12:00 AM GMT-4
For $1, a golf clubmember can either: buy a ball, pay his caddy, have two beers in his club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. Read More...
bradleygee/Flickr A study released on Oct. 27 in the journal Obesity looked at the chemical structure of sweeteners in Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other sodas. There were a lot of surprising findings, but for now, here’s one result that cut close to my Brooklyn-foodie fad-loving bones: Mexican Coke, which people thought to be superior to American Coke because it uses real cane sugar in place of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), could be a myth. Read More...
