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Most Useless College Degree Is ...

John Johnson — Sun, 01 May 2011 19:06:05 CDT

Parents of high school seniors take note: The Daily Beast has compiled a list of the 20 most useless college degrees, based on salaries, number of jobs available, and general trend of crappiness. The losers: Journalism: Median starting salary is $35,800; percentage change in number of jobs from 2008...

Walgreens Jettisons Chia Obama

Kevin Spak — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:43:40 CDT

Walgreens has pulled Chia Obama from its shelves, saying the Afro-growing pottery novelty “didn’t fit our corporate image,” the Chicago Tribune reports. “We didn’t want to be subject to any misinterpretation over the product,” said a spokesman, who said he was misquoted yesterday as saying that customers had complained that...

Can Tomatoes Grow to Love Shakespeare?

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:16:29 CDT

A tomato by any other name might taste as sweet, but will it grow as fast without the sound of a human voice? A new British study intends to find out with recordings of Shakespeare's verse and a poem by John Wyndman. The recordings will be played to the plants...

Flower Shows Wilt Under Recession

Rob Quinn — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:30:10 CST

The economic downturn and changing demographics are killing off flower shows across America, the New York Times reports. Sponsorship money is drooping and greenhouses are becoming costlier to heat. One of the most famous, the New England Flower Show, canceled this year’s event after 137 years of bringing an extravagant...

Bamboo Invades Suburbia

Caroline Zimmerman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:30:17 CDT

Suburbanites are fighting to keep bamboo at bay in backyards all over America, but the tropical grass is winning. The Asian import grows fast and has become a popular, environmentally friendly way to screen out the neighbors. But with roots like steel cables, the relentless spreader resists pesticides, pickaxes, and...