Scientist: Smiling Can Hurt Your Health

FRANKFURT, Germany, May 16 (UPI) -- A German scientist has proved that people forced to smile and take on-the-job insults suffer more and longer-lasting stress that may harm their health. Dieter Zapf of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt...

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Happy Hanukkah from TFR

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That's Assault Brotha...

Mike's bachelor party ended somewhat unceremoniously at Arthur's Tavern with three of us and the groom-to-be having listened to the jazz/funk stylings of Frankie and Off the Hook, a ridiculous band of soul talent who cover the likes of...

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I Thought They'd Find Him in Fried Rice

A quick thanks to Jason for sending this my way... This is a picture of a Cheetos brand cheese puff which (unquestionably) resembles the racehorse Barbaro. Barbaro, who won the hearts of millions when he was whipped into running...

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On the mag racks of your favorite bookseller...

Be on the hunt for the latest issue of Heeb Magazine in which I profile the IPWA (Israeli Pro-Wrestling Association) in a brief piece written during a trip to Israel last March. At some point in the near future,...

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Happy Ron Jeremy Day...

To My Loyal Readers, A momentous...uh...moment transpired yesterday afternoon in the corporate burrows of my newest home. Surrounded by my peers and a mostly female crowd, I assisted in an author signing of great consequence, not just to me,...

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Breaking News by Alexander Bijou

An update on previous TFR interviewee Walid Hamis whom according to Haaretz news service has been sacked as deputy mayor of Haifa. I will withhold any further commentary on this matter because it will violate my neutrality as a journalist....

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A Fight About Zee Fan

A Fight About Zee Fan by Alexander Bijou In most countries in the world, when the sun comes up, the temperature rises. For a great number of scientists or pseudoscientists (meteorologists), even this principle is not too radical. In the...

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