Fast Draw: Bank Backlash
The Fast Draw's Mitch Butler and Josh Landis take a look at the age-old battle between the people and their banks.
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Fast Draw: The Twilight Zone
50 year ago this week, "The Twilight Zone" premiered and after all this time it's still spooking die-hard fans of all ages. The Fast Draw's Mitch Butler and Josh Landis report on the history of science fiction.
Fast Draw: Lessons Of Sand
For millions, summer means heading to the beach, feeling the sand between our toes, but there are serious lessons to be learned from all that sand. The Fast Draw's Mitch Butler and Josh Landis explain.
What's In A Name?
One of the joys of fatherhood - and motherhood - is helping to choose the name of the baby but, as Fast Draw's Mitch Butler and Josh Landis reports, it can be a perplexing job.
Phantom Traffic Jams
Traffic jams are a huge annoyance for most commuters in big cities but they are not always caused by car accidents.
More often than not, traffic has a simple solution: obey the 2 second rule.
Genetically Modified Everything
Josh Landis And Mitch Butler discuss genetically modified monkeys the glow in certain light and illustrate how almost everything we eat is also genetically modified.
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Also check out this week's "Fast Draw Live." Josh Landis sat down with CBSNews.com's Cali Carlin to review the clip and take your questions on genetic engineering and how it affects your world:
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Also check out this week's "Fast Draw Live." Josh Landis sat down with CBSNews.com's Cali Carlin to review the clip and take your questions on genetic engineering and how it affects your world:
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Recession and Renewal
There's little upside for workers who've been laid off. Losing a job is a traumatic experience. For the country, however, rising unemployment can mean rebirth, fueling engines of creativity. It's a phenomenon that's part pragmatism, part hopeful optimism, all American Dream. When history looks back on these years it will discover a list of companies that got started during this recession -- and went on to change the world.
Hot And Bothered
It's one of those times that would make our high school physics teachers proud. Drivers are catching on to the fact that they're paying more than they should for gasoline because of something called "thermal fuel expansion." Never heard of it? Chances are you've paid for it. Here's how it works. If you want to know more, write to us in the comments section and follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/fastdraw We'll be following this issue, which is bubbling up during the recession.
Awaking The Power Of Sleep
You can't squeeze more hours into the day but you can get more sleep into your lives. We stepped away from the Starbucks and put down the NoDoz to find out what's really going on when we close our eyes. And make sure you follow us on Twitter for faster, better, stronger Fast Draws: twitter.com/fastdraw
The Future Of Reading
The words you're reading have been around for hundreds or thousands of years but they've never gotten around like this before. The internet changed not only what we read, but HOW we read. Think that doesn't matter? Then read on....
Amazon has unveiled the heaviest hitter in a growing corner of the tech world: e-books. The Kindle DX doesn't play video, has limited web-browsing abilities and carries a price tag of nearly $500. Why is it getting so much attention? It's helping to shape the future of reading.
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Amazon has unveiled the heaviest hitter in a growing corner of the tech world: e-books. The Kindle DX doesn't play video, has limited web-browsing abilities and carries a price tag of nearly $500. Why is it getting so much attention? It's helping to shape the future of reading.
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Fast Draw: Swine Flu
While the world waits to see if the swine flu will become an pandemic, The Fast Draw's Mitch Butler and Josh Landis make the point that microorganisms do a lot more good than harm.
We're not alone. Not on this planet. Not in our own bodies. There's a new scientific perspective on what it means to be human and, ironically, it maintains we're less human than we thought. If you want to know more, check out this excellent article by Courtney Humphries. You won't think about washing your hands in the same way again.
We're not alone. Not on this planet. Not in our own bodies. There's a new scientific perspective on what it means to be human and, ironically, it maintains we're less human than we thought. If you want to know more, check out this excellent article by Courtney Humphries. You won't think about washing your hands in the same way again.
The Happiness Myth
With the economy down, a lot of people are looking for ways to pick themselves up. There are ways to get happy and there are ways not to get happy. Here's The Fast Draw's guide to both.
Volumes have been written on the pursuit of happiness -- the Declaration of Independence even calls it one of our "unalienable Rights."
Someone who knows a lot more about the pursuit of happiness than us is Gretchen Rubin. She's a former Supreme Court clerk who left the legal profession to write. Her latest project is The Happiness Project.
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Volumes have been written on the pursuit of happiness -- the Declaration of Independence even calls it one of our "unalienable Rights."
Someone who knows a lot more about the pursuit of happiness than us is Gretchen Rubin. She's a former Supreme Court clerk who left the legal profession to write. Her latest project is The Happiness Project.
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Procrastinating Everything
Josh Landis and Mitch Butler examine the effects of procrastination, from Ben Franklin to the annual taxes deadline.
Debt Balloons
About a decade ago, bankers discovered a new, useful way to turn debt into an asset they could buy and sell. Josh Landis and Mitch Butler explain all the hot air in "debt balloons."
