Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

This week brought the annual post-Oscars debate about whether the show was offensive, boring, edgy, too long, or all of the above. The reviews for DC's mishandling of the sequester were less divided, with pretty much everyone agreeing that it's a self-inflicted disaster -- one President Obama called "dumb," "arbitrary," "unnecessary," and "inexcusable." Alternatives from both sides of the aisle were voted down, but the right solution -- repealing the jobs-and-growth-killing budget cuts -- wasn't even considered. Meanwhile, at least one new job opening was created this week, as ex-Pope Benedict spent the first night of his retirement watching TV reports about his departure. Hopefully he skipped over Bob Woodward's pathetic media appearances, in which he turned a polite email exchange between friends into a threat, or stories about Justice Scalia calling the Voting Rights Act a "racial entitlement" -- a statement far more offensive than anything said during the Oscars. Talk about "seeing a boob."

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PMP: Basic Astrology - What's Your Sign? 03/02 by Pagan Musings ...

He's a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, member of the Grammy-winning group Maroon 5 and Young Money Records, but at the end of the day PJ Morton is a man who loves music. He talks with Conversations LIVE host Cyrus Web about that love, his single with S

SFP-NOW welcomes Composer Reinhold Heil, who helped compose the music featured in the movie 'Cloud Atlas,' which premiers in the UK next weekend.

David Duchovny joins host Robin Milling to discuss his new movie Phantom where he portrays an extremist KGB agent aboard a Soviet submarine during the Cold War.

Ashley Bell of The Last Exorcism Part II joins film critic Travis Hopson to talk about her return to Eli Roth's horror franchise.

Pete Peters welcomes Linda Herman, author of Parents to the End: How Baby Boomers Can Parent for Peace of Mind, Foster Responsibility in their Adult Children, and Keep their Hard-Earned Money.

Tools, NASCAR, color, tech, we have it all. NASCAR racer and MMA fighter Jeffrey Earnhardt burns rubber to talk life behind the wheel and inside the octagon. Plus we check in with experts from Better Homes & Gardens, Fine Homebuilding, This Old House magazines

Big Blend Radio spends Happy Hour with author & professor Judith Newton, and discusses her new memoir 'Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen'

Melissa Jo Peltier- Emmy Award Winner, People's Choice , New York Times Best Selling Author - known for "Dog Whisperer w/ Ceasar Milan" "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" "Ghost Whisperer" joins us today to discuss her new hit book into Hollywood "Reality Boulevard."

Join the Garden Guys and Diane Blazek, Executive Director of All-America Selections? and National Garden Bureau, as we discuss what both organizations are about and some of the hot, new, annual and vegetable plants for the 2013 season.

Listen to NY Times Bestselling author Will Schwalbe discuss his book, The End of Your Life Book Club, and share his memories of his heroic mother and her battle with cancer.

Kamar de los Reyes is best known for his roles on One Life to Live, The Mentalist, CSI: Miami, and as the character of Raul Menendez in the Call of Duty video game series. He chats with Take 2 about his stellar career.

The site of America's most famous family feud and the deadly 1888 New Year?s Day showdown between the Hatfields and McCoys has been unearthed by one of National Geographic ?Diggers? Tim ?Ringmaster? Saylor. Tim stops by to share the historic discovery

Tonight Aphrodite Joins King Jordan Radio !! Jones is is an American reporter, author, and cable TV host of the series, True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, which airs on Investigation Discovery. Before landing the hosting position with Discovery Channel's new

Pete Peters welcomes Jill Teitelman, author of Saving Gracie, to talk about her sad, yet comical novel that spurred fifteen years ago when her dearest friend got sick. What has become of her terror, is now one of the most touching stories written.

Shango Blake and legendary Hip Hop pioneer Kurtis Blow tackle: Can Hip Hop be a trans-formative motivational tool that can improve student achievement?

Brian Deegan, the biggest name in all of action sports, the founder of The Metal Mulisha, X-Games Champion, FMX Champ, Off-Road Champ, and GRC Star "The General" will be on air talking 2013.

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Astro Gaming officially unleashes A30 & A40 PC editions, drops prices to $100 & $150

Astro Gaming's A40 headset and Mixamp Pro have generally gotten yearly revisions, but the portability-inclined A30 hasn't received the same love since its inception. That's officially changed this week, as the company's announced its 2013 PC editions (standalone versions) of the A30 and A40 stereo headsets are now available. Although the new units began shipping with the company's Mixamp-packing Audio System bundles last November, this is the first time it's really blasting the airwaves about the A30's revision. Both editions feature re-tuned drivers touting better response for bass and cleaner output, along with a re-tooled approach to the quick disconnect cables and a new media cable with a revised inline remote and mic. The revised cabling setup allows 3.5mm cables to plug directly into the headsets, making for easier replacements and swapping (previous versions had you connect to a short cable hung from the earcup, with a dual-pole connector).

Perhaps best of all, the A30 is now priced thirty bucks less at $100 (finally!), while the A40's been reduced to $149 (down from $199). If you recently purchased one, don't fret either -- Astro also let us know that orders placed the 11th of this month have shipped out with the 2013 editions. Hit up the press release after the break for more info while deciding if one of 'em might be your new ticket to supreme gaming sound.

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DropTask Turns Your Tasks Into an Awesome Venn Diagram of Productivity

Managing your tasks is a boring but necessary chore. DropTask changes the way you view your to-dos by mapping it out in a visual, drag-and-drop interface perfect for viewing the stuff you have to do, especially if you work with others.

DropTask is incredibly intuitive, and while it can seem a little weird at first?not to mention space-inefficient?it can be pretty handy if you're managing larger projects. In fact, where it really shows its stuff is when you work with other people. If you sign your entire team up for DropTask, you can assign tasks or groups of tasks to different people with just a flick of the mouse, making it really easy to dole out responsibilities. Check out the video above to see it in action, or click the link below to try it out.

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Having Sons Can Shorten a Woman's Life Expectancy

Each boy raises the risk of death by 7 percent. They may be energetically more demanding to breast-feed

By Zoe Cormier

Boys can be a handful for both parents, but they only seem to take a toll on their mothers' life expectancy. Image: Melinda Brookshire Photography/Flickr

From Nature magazine.

Women who bear sons can have slightly shorter lives than those who bear daughters, researchers have found. Their study showed that a woman?s risk of death increased by 7% per year for each son born ? a small but statistically robust effect, at least for the individuals the team looked at ? Finnish villagers in pre-Industrial Scandinavia.

?Previous investigations into the effect of the gender of a baby on its mother?s lifespan have been mixed, so our new analysis really is just another brick in the wall,? says Samuli Helle of the University of Turku in Finland, the study's lead author. ?I?m not surprised the results have been mixed, because the previous studies have involved different societies, cultural practices and so on.?

A litany of factors could influence a woman?s lifespan, such as affluence and nutrition, as well as the number of children she has. The impact of having a boy compared with a girl is likely to be most pronounced in settings where resources such as food and health care are poor.

Helle and his co-author, Virpi Lummaafound, investigated parish records for individuals in eight parishes who lived during the seventeenth to mid-twentieth centuries. They found that if a woman in these communities was 37 years old at the time of having her last child, her life expectancy would vary depending on the sex of her children. She would live for another 33.1 years if she had no sons, another 32.7 years if she had three and another 32.4 years if she had six.

The study, which appears in Biology Letters, builds on previous research published by the same team in the journal Science more than ten years ago, which found that for every son she had, a woman's life would be shortened by an average of 34 weeks. By contrast, daughters actually lengthened their mother's lifespan very slightly (though not statistically significantly). In both studies, the life-shortening effects were experienced only by mothers, not fathers.

Biological factors
But the reason behind this small difference is the big puzzle. ?The relative importance of biological versus cultural factors remains an open question,? says Helle, who speculates that it could be that girls are more likely to help their parents in household duties. ?We need more data, such as how many sons versus daughters helped in everyday tasks, what age they actually started to work outside the home and so on.?

Erik Lindqvist of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, who has looked at lifespan and births in Sweden, is not convinced. ?We have never been able to replicate their results," he says.

But Grazyna Jasienska, who studies longevity and reproductive health at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Cracow, Poland, believes that the effects of sons on a woman's lifespan are certainly real ? and are probably due to biological factors, such as breastfeeding.

Other studies have found that boys can take more of a toll on their mother biologically because they tend to be slightly heavier at birth than girls. And a few studies have found that women expend more energy in producing breast milk for boys ? although the results of such studies have been mixed.

?I think the costs of having boys over girls are more social than biological," she says. "But we still ultimately don?t know."

This story is reprinted with permission from Nature magazine. It was first published on February 27, 2013.

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YC-Backed MYO Armband Attracts 10,000 Pre-Orders In 2 Days, Which Adds Up To $1.5M In Sales

MYO, the gesture control armband from Y Combinator-backed Waterloo startup Thalmic Labs, has managed to rack up over 10,000 pre-orders over the course of its first two days of pre-order availability. At $149 a pop, that means the young company has already managed to secure around $1.5 million in gross revenue, so long as they actually ship hardware.

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