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Will Smoking Smarties Encourage Teens to Smoke Cigarettes?

FitSugar — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Smoking Smarties is the newest fad among young teens. It involves crushing a packet of Smarties candies while still in their cylindrical wrapper, inhaling the sugary powder, and exhaling it so it looks like smoke from a cigarette. The idea is to puff on this imitation cigarette like you would a cigar, just inhaling the sugar into your mouth, not into your lungs. Of course if kids do inhale the ground up candy into their lungs, they'll end up coughing, but this is not where the harm lies. The true concern is what this ritual may promote. Check out the CBS News video below to hear more.

Experts are concerned that pretending to smoke Smarties will lead to smoking real cigarettes, which will lead to all the health problems associated with it. What's your opinion?

Test Your Triva Knowledge With Smarty Pants For the Wii

GeekSugar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:45:45 -0800

When I went home for the holidays I knew my family would go nuts over Guitar Hero III, but I had no idea the screaming and hollering that would ensue when I popped in Smarty Pants for the Wii. Picture old-school Trivial Pursuit meets electronic Jeopardy and that's exactly what this game is about - plus the additional fun of being able to use a wiimote! Smarty Pants is a new trivia game that comes with 20,000 questions across eight different categories that are suitable for both adults and children.

Although you can play this game alone, it's certainly more fun with friends or family as questions are timed and you are able to play simultaneously. You can even enter your age for age-specific questions to increase the difficulty level (although in my case it made me want to brush up on my trivia knowledge)! Other fun features include being able to import your Mii avatars, having "dance-offs" for additional points, and participating in wiimote tug-of-wars when players buzz in at the same time. Smarty Pants is currently priced at $40.

Smarty Pants Prove Brainiacs in Spelling and Philosophy

CitizenSugar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:59 -0700

Great minds think alike - wisdom isn't wasted on the young. This weekend an Oregon man won this year's Great American Think-Off, a national philosophy competition asking ordinary people to debate extraordinary questions. This year's question was, "Does immigration strengthen or threaten the United States?"

Craig Allen, of West Linn, OR, won a gold medal this weekend when a live audience in New York Mills decided he was most convincing when arguing that the system of immigration and immigration policy is broken and that it encourages an influx of illegal immigrants and poses a threat to the country.

During the debate, the four finalists touched on what it means to be an American and stressed that American identity is evolving. He wasn't the only adult winning laurels for being a smarty pants this weekend.

Larry Grossman won this year’s senior national spelling bee correctly spelling the word “debouch” and snatching victory. Grossman, a Northwood, ND resident is a teacher and has won the North Dakota state spelling bee six times already. “This is a great feeling. ‘Great’ doesn’t seem like a very adequate word but that’s all I can think of on short notice.”

The event, hosted by AARP, had about forty-seven competitors from twenty-four states in this year’s senior bee. Those competing were invited following wins in recent regional bees and were required to be fifty years of age or older. The winner received $500 and some big ol' bragging rites. Rights. Writes. Aw, ask Larry.

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Super-Cute Video Alert: Canine Coxswain Steers Raft

PetSugar — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:30:30 -0700

This dog has definitely not gone off the deep end; in fact, he seems rather hesitant to even puppy paddle in the shallow looking water. However, what's a brainy pet to do when there's a ball in the horizon?

The water looks pretty dingy so I can't say I blame him for this problem-solving technique - way to make a figurative splash while (not) making a literal one, smarty pooch!

Trend Alert: Summer Booties

FabSugar — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:50:22 -0700

I understand wearing boots in the Summer is a geographical thing. For example, a gal in Washington DC (hot, sticky) may balk at the thought, while a chick in San Francisco (foggy, breezy) may bask in it. But I must aver the cuteness of Summer booties. Myla lingerie model and social Polly Delevigne exhibits said cuteness - pug alert!

Pair slightly tough, open-toe booties with a sweet sundress and voila! Modern girlie. Black is the most extreme, neutrals and metallics lend a lighter touch. And look on the bright side - come Fall, these become Fall booties. Smarties.

Do Tell: Can Your Dog Understand Gestures?

PetSugar — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:54 -0700

Chances are if you're pointing towards food, your pooch will find it one way or another but have you ever stopped to notice if he follows your gestures in general? According to not one but two recent studies, dogs can comprehend pointing on the same level as a 2-year-old child and require nearly zero learning time to figure out how to follow direction.
The studies also watched dogs follow head-turning, gazing, and pointing using other body parts, and those smarty pups figured it out. The biggest problems for canines and two year olds came with tricky gestures where the protruding arm pointed in a different direction than the finger itself . . . but three year olds mastered all the tests. Even though I was quick to share this news with lilsugar, the scientist points out the need to not generalize:

Any behavioral similarity or similar performance between dogs and children should be investigated separately in each case. Just to give an example for a reverse case: nobody has tried to herd a flock of sheep with 2-year-old (human children).

Point taken, but I've still been testing North at home, and he will look around and seem to follow my cues most of the time - will yours?

10 Cities Poised For a Recession Comeback

SavvySugar — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:30:27 -0700

While sometimes it's difficult to trust that economists' assessments are any more accurate than yours or mine, more than a few professionals have indicated there are signs the economy is stabilizing. The smarties at Forbes looked at the projected gross domestic product of metropolitan areas across the US, unemployment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and home prices, incomes, and affordability data from the National Association of Home Builders to determine the 10 cities best poised for recession recovery. To see which cities have the best odds, read more.

Austin-Round Rock, TX
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AK
Boulder, CO
Huntsville, AL
San Antonio, TX
Mobile, AL
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-W.VA
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Why Do We Smell Coffee Beans Between Fragrances?

BellaSugar — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:00:58 -0800

It seems almost routine to be put on the beauty spot, yet it's rare that I'm asked a question I know the answer to, but can't explain why. But it happens. Recently, while shopping at Sephora, one of my friends asked why they had coffee beans in the fragrance section. "Well," I said in my most professor-ish voice, "Smelling coffee beans between perfumes is like eating sorbet between courses. Both help distinguish the latest flavor (or scent) from the original one." She looked at me, and pushed: "Says who?"

I pointed at myself but couldn't get this question out of my head. I returned home and located a Sense of Smell Institute that clarifies the original experiment. Answer the "says who?" for yourself when you read more.

The lab of UC Berkeley scientist, Noam Sobel, found when examining the "Influence of Smelling Coffee on Olfactory Habituation":

Smelling coffee aroma between perfume samples, as compared to smelling unscented air, actually works. The perceived odor intensity of the perfume from sample to sample stayed the same after smelling coffee aroma while it decreased when smelling air between samples. The pleasantness of the perfume, however, was similar after smelling coffee or air.

This isn't the only way to clear the nose and increase sensitivity for the next evaluation. Other popular nose-clearing techniques employ smelling a swatch of wool or smelling an unfragranced forearm. Now, I'm not the only smarty pants in town. Go forth and impress your pals about the coffee beans at perfume counters nationwide . . . and it helps to toss in "olfactory habituation" a few times while you're at it.

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Do You Know Your Beauty Basics?

BellaSugar — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:00:14 -0800

Mr. Bella is charming and sweet. He's also quite the smarty-pants - literally. Because he has an advanced degree in Physics, sometimes he doesn't realize that theories and equations common to him are not so common to the everyday folk. So the other day, when I was teased for failing to know the difference between a parabola and a bell curve, I asked him a few beauty questions from my world to see if Mr. Mensa really does know everything. And that's the inspiration behind this quiz. So, let's see what you know when it comes to some common beauty basics.

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Pumpkin Proposal

GiggleSugar — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0700

Cute: proposing to your girlfriend via jack-o'-lantern. Not cute: having an all-costume Halloween wedding with a cake made out of Tootsie Rolls and Smarties.

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