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Amazon uses cute animal videos to woo shoppers in ad uptick

AMAZON.COM, Inc. is not above the surefire trick of using cute animals to woo shoppers.

Sherlock fans, collect your New Year’s present.

The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
SHERLOCK fans are among the most patient fans on earth, and they have to be. Since the BBC series created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss premiered in 2010, there have been exactly nine episodes, 10 if you count the one-off holiday special that aired last week. The fans have used the time between episodes to create endless tumblr pages and memes featuring Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Check out the one demonstrating his resemblance to an otter) and Martin Freeman, write fan fiction about Holmes and Watson, organize a worldwide army (Cumberbitches), and report on every move made by Cumberbatch and Freeman. I would probably not stalk the Cumberbatch, but I might consider replacing my library if he were to record all the volumes as audiobooks.

Heatwaves, drought may curb global power output

PARIS, FRANCE — Thousands of power plants worldwide face sharp reductions in electricity output by mid-century due to more frequent heatwaves and drought driven by global warming, according to a study published on Monday.

Drink wine, eat pizza, be healthy. But…

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

REJOICE, lazy bones! While this might actually be too good to be true, it seems that science says you can be healthy while eating pasta and pizza.

Strings on me

By Noel Vera

Television Review
Jessica Jones

New Year Hugs

Ads & Ends — Nanette Franco-Diyco

EXPRESSIONS OF love, affection, and goodwill — hugs and kisses are exchanged throughout the holidays, leaving both the sender and the receiver in varying degrees of joy. How is this for timeliness, to feature an advertising campaign on hugs for the first Weekender of the New Year?

All in the family

VETERAN pianist Cristine Coyiuto and her daughter Caitlin, a rising star-flute soloist, are the featured performers at the third concert of the Metro Manila Concert Orchestra (MMCO) 15th Crystal Anniversary Concert Season, Enchanting Ravel and Rodrigo.

You’re in good hands, Charlie Brown

By Richard Roeper

Movie Review
The Peanuts Movie

Tiniest chameleons have fastest tongues

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES — The tiniest chameleons on Earth lash out their tongues with amazing speed, going from zero to 60 miles (97 kilometers) per hour in one hundredth of a second, researchers said on Monday.

Sky high

A KILOMETER away from Tagaytay’s famous Taal Vista hotel sits a new entrant to the city’s growing hospitality market, one from a family who has run an aeronautics school for almost 50 years and decided that a hotel would be a good change of pace.

Nuts

By Noel Vera

FIRST you have that scribbled line — halfway between a fluid streak and a crabbed scrawl.

5 books that put some life in the Dismal Science

By Noah Smith

ANYONE’s list of best books of the year is going to be incomplete and biased. Mine, for example, is weighted toward books about economic theory and the financial industry.