Life News (Popular Culture)

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Jeremy Olson, a student at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), and his mobile app design company, Tapity, have hit another homerun with its newest app, Languages. Following on the successful release of Grades 2, the company’s inaugural app, Languages has climbed to the fifth-highest selling app in Apple’s App Store, only a day after being released.

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Tailgating is a fun American tradition where food is prepared and enjoyed near the back of a car or truck, often in the parking lot of a sporting, music or other large event. However, food-borne illness is no fun. Careful planning and onsite precautions can help ensure your food is safe to eat.

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New national poll conducted by American University/GfK Research reveals high school and college students overwhelmingly prefer Obama over Romney. Gender gap in place even among young voters.

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When an expected crowd of 40,000 music festival goers descends on a historic area in downtown Starkville Friday [Nov. 2] for Bulldog Bash, one start-up company headed by an MSU alumnus is hoping to make social media history as it launches a new site called YeHive.

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Ribbon-cutting for multimedia center opening will feature appearances by Ryan Seacrest, Selena Gomez and Radio Disney’s “Next Big Thing” winner Shealeigh

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In a new book, IU professor Mark Dueze takes on the prevailing notion of his peers in media and communications research think -- that the media and its related devices have an effect on us and that the more we use them, the more they shape our lives.

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Fantasy football creates software jobs and helps brand individual athletes while appealing to gamers who like to take a gamble.

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Study finds media messages describing paranormal investigators as "scientific" makes people more likely to "believe."

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Chris Anderson, Cornell associate professor, in the School of Hotel Administration, offers fresh data on how travel review web sites, the online reputation of hotels and hotel-industry elasticity are forming a 2013 tidal wave of change. He talks on this new research at a journalists-only luncheon on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 from 12:30 to 2 p.m., at Times Square in Manhattan.

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To figure out how to talk about politics without getting in virtual—or actual—fist fights, Wake Forest Divinity School professor Michelle Voss Roberts says we should take our cues from a surprising place – religion.

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From black cats bringing good fortune to super-sweet pumpkin crops and the history of horrifying words and imagery, several Cornell University experts are available to help you find new ways to explore this ancient holiday.

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What does a religion known for teaching non-violence have to do with martial arts disciplines designed to cripple or kill? A great deal, it turns out.

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“Technology and Human Flourishing” will be the theme of the 2012 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, hosted by the Institute for Faith and Learning, on Thursday, Oct. 25, through Saturday, Oct. 27.

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Perhaps one of the most ambitious book-to-movie translations to date, Warner Brothers’ "Cloud Atlas," based on British author David Mitchell’s 2004 award-winning novel of the same name, opens on Oct.26. Narrative theory and time expert Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D., professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, has done an in-depth study of the book, and is available to comment on the challenges the filmmakers faced, given the novel's complex structure.

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Wake Forest University professor and author, Eric Wilson, explores the reasons adults have made Halloween an $8 billion dollar holiday.

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This week, the social media world reached two milestones: Facebook announced it reached 1 billion active users, and pop icon Lady Gaga became the first to amass 30 million followers on Twitter. Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication and of computer and information science, sees good news in the rise of both.

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Daniel Schwarz, Cornell professor of English, discusses his book, “Endtimes: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009” on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at the New York Public Library, at 40th St. and Fifth Ave. (Sixth Floor). The talk begins at 6:30 p.m.

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With the Presidential election quickly approaching, social media sites such as Facebook are filled with political posturing and comments. A Southeastern Communication professor discusses the results of an unscientific poll of friends and associates who commonly post on political topics or candidates.

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No kidding: The history of the first anchorman may have more to do with Will Ferrell than people might think, according to new research by a journalism historian at Indiana University. While Ferrell is best known for playing Ron Burgundy in the 2004 comedy "Anchorman," he also famously parodied "Jeopardy" game show host Alex Trebek. Research by Mike Conway, an associate professor of journalism at IU, has found that the first "anchor man" was John Cameron Swayze, then a regular on the 1948 quiz show, "Who Said That?"

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Daniel R. Schwarz, Cornell professor of English, reflects on the death of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1926-2012), who was the New York Times’ publisher from 1963-92. Schwarz wrote the recently published book, “Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009” from Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press.

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In a post-Potter world, J.K. Rowling will try to cast a spell on grown-up readers with her upcoming adult fiction novel, "The Casual Vacancy." Two Kansas State University children's literature experts said that Rowling's strength as a writer can help her successfully jump from children's literature to adult fiction.

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Amid the tailgating and other pre-game festivities before Indiana University's Oct. 6 football game against Michigan State, IU students and faculty and alumni from the two schools will work together on a new Habitat for Humanity home in partnership with a Bloomington family. Ashley and Doyle Kell and their 3-year-old daughter Hailey will receive the keys to their new home a week later, on the field of IU Memorial Stadium, before the Hoosiers' game against Ohio State. Their new home will be dedicated about two hours before the 8 p.m. kickoff Oct. 13.

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The weekly, hour-long radio program, Rock School, which airs on Southeastern Louisiana University's radio station KSLU-90.9 FM, has been awarded an International Communicator Award for Excellence.

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More than 2 million consumers got to gloat Friday about their shrewdness in procuring an iPhone 5, with its larger screen and 200 additional features through its new operating system. But once the novelty wears off, will they still enjoy their purchase? It depends on why they bought it, says new research from a marketing professor at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

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With the U.S. presidential election looming, Latino and Hispanic voters are expected to play a critical role at the polls. Maria Figueroa, an expert on Latino/Hispanic labor from Cornell University, discusses “Hispanic/Latino Voter Impact on Election 2012,” in a journalists-only luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, from noon to 1:15 p.m., at Cornell’s ILR Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th floor, Midtown Manhattan. (Spanish version included)

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As the Christian retailing industry grows, so too grows tension when artists must decide whether to target their message and marketing efforts toward non-Christians.

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Britain’s royal family has obtained an injunction against the French magazine Closer to prevent it from publishing topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton. “The case would likely come out differently if it were brought in the United States,” says Neil Richards, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Richards, an internationally recognized expert in privacy and free speech law who hails from England, explains that English and European courts have been very aggressive in stopping media from publishing pictures delving into the sex lives of celebrities.

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The inspirational story of Cory Weissman, the Gettysburg College basketball player who suffered a stroke during his first year on campus, only to return to the court for one extraordinary moment during his senior year, will be coming to the silver screen. Shooting for the movie "1,000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story" will begin on the Gettysburg College campus in October.

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A national audience will see how Indiana University Kelley School of Business alumnus Derek Pacqué handled the pressure of making a pitch for his company before a panel of potential investors on the ABC television show "Shark Tank" on Friday.

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Ryerson University students unofficially break Guinness World Record for largest cow-bell ensemble.

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The next superstar of the Muslim world might not be a political activist or a crusading journalist; instead it just might be a Lebanese singer who was raised in Sweden, worked in New York City and lives in Malaysia. That’s only one of the fascinating insights Dr. Sean Foley gained during his 15-month trip to Southeast Asia in 2010-11.

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New school meal guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have prompted schools to hire chefs, enlist parents and or input and recruit students to do food tastings so they can have tasty, nutritious foods, said a Baylor University dietitian.

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Hip Hop founding father, Electro-Funk pioneer, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, DJ Afrika Bambaataa, has been appointed to a three-year term as a visiting scholar at Cornell University.

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A University of South Carolina sociologist uses 100 years of New York Times obituaries as a cultural barometer.

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A listing of the best tech tools to achieve academic success this fall.

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In 1915, Snowden D. Flora of the U.S. Weather Bureau wrote, "Kansas has been so commonly considered the tornado state of the country that the term 'Kansas cyclone' has almost become a part of the English language."

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A University of Iowa study finds that many race fans still watch NASCAR races for the car wrecks, but more have tuned in to see who wins the race since the circuit adopted its Chase for the Cup championship series.

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