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A colleague and I sometimes laugh about weird headlines. My favorites from the past week or so include “Fearsome Lawn Ornament Shot Dead by Cops,”

“Is the PG-13 rating helping or hurting families?” That’s the question I posed in an article published in Plugged In magazine in the summer of

Can video games instigate a divorce? According to a study by the website Divorce Online, the answer—in a small but growing number of marriages—is apparently

Even though I was an English major, I still took two classes in anatomy and physiology in college. In addition to memorizing the names of

Just because X-Men was the fittest of the flock and more than just survived the weekend box office race does not mean that Darwin was

We all know about the power of media to influence our perspective on reality. Even so, sometimes I see that lesson illustrated in ways that

Let’s face facts. If you take everything we watch, read and hear at face value, our modern life is out to get us. It’s like

There are professional storm-chaser videos, and then there are WHAT-are-you-thinking-you-lunatic storm–chaser videos. Not long after the most recent siege of devastating tornados ripped across the

The box office derby sent us Plugged In movie reviewers searching for Alka-Seltzer over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. It kinda made us feel a

When I was a kid, I thought pirates were pretty nifty. They had eye patches, peg legs, cool parrots (who might also have eye patches