2008 Woodie Awards
According to CNN.com, more than 20,000 people failed to evacuate the Galveston, Texas area after officials warned them to do so in Hurricane Ike's wake. This wasn't a "boy-who-cried-wolf" situation. This has happened before. This will happen again. And it's happening now. (1) comment
Addictions come in all shapes and sizes. Most college students are addicted to caffeine, mostly in the form of coffee from establishments such as Starbucks, Caribou Coffee or any local coffee shop. Others are passionately addicted to video games ("World of Warcraft," to name one). (1) comment
When news broke last week of David Duchovny's voluntary entry into rehab for "sex addiction," I thought it was another star's attempt to grab headlines in the pop culture obsessed media. Then I read an article on CNN.com detailing the phenomenon. "We're seeing (sex addiction) with epidemic proportions now," psychologist Mark Schwartz said in the article. (2) comments
In the last 10 years, the only hype we as a society have heard about ultraviolet light are the negative aspects from so-called dermatologists and other doctors. Although there are downsides to overexposure, the only negative information you need to know is that UV light may cause skin cancer. (3) comments