Roma Panganiban

Roma Panganiban

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Roma Panganiban is a former competitive spelling bee participant who holds very strong views on punctuation. She currently attends college, but hopes to shake that habit one of these days. She sometimes gets confused between British and American English, and wishes people would be more sympathetic about it.

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Weekend Links: Staring at the Sun

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Weekend Links: The Most Identical Twins

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The 1926 Gatsby Film Was Rotten and Awful and Terrible

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been adapted to most conceivable forms of media: graphic novels, video games, musical theatre, and opera. Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the classic American novel, in theaters this Friday, marks the sixth time a director has attempted to take Gatsby from page to screen. While expectations are running high for the $127 million movie, certain of Luhrmann's predecessors failed to set a very high bar for him. ... READ ON

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How Do Noise-Canceling Headphones Work?

Noise-canceling headphones seem like an oxymoron: a piece of audio technology that creates silence, rather than noise. They’re useful on planes, in crowded offices, and for light sleepers trying to catch some shut-eye in a thin-walled apartment, but how can a pair of headphones make sound disappear?... READ ON

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Weekend Links: Hobbit Houses

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Weekend Links: The World’s Largest Rubber Duck

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New Study Finds that Ladies (and Gentlemen!) Love Beards

Hirsute men of the world, rejoice! Scientific evidence has finally arrived to prove what you’ve known along: that beard looks great on you. Ladies love it, and men do, too.... READ ON

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Britain’s “Big Cat” Conundrum

Thinking of the wild English countryside might conjure up images of manor houses, green fields, and secret gardens, Lions, tigers, and bears are from a different kind of story—but that's not actually so, according to a recent discovery by a team of researchers.... READ ON

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Weekend Links: Llama Lovin’

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Weekend Links: Straight from the Photographer’s Mouth

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