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Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:30:49 EST

Breasts In The Sports World

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:47:35 EST

You could argue that two trends are in a state of modern collision. Women are hitting puberty earlier than they used to, and their breasts are arriving in larger sizes. There's a complex matrix of factors making this happen.

Average bra size in the fifties was a B. A British bra manufacturer now makes an L cup. Meanwhile, we're watching an explosion in women's sports driven here in the U....

How Asexuals View The World

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:12:27 EST

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, asexuals seem like brothers and sisters from a distant solar system.

Western societies are gradually growing accustomed -- with varying degrees of comfort -- to the initials in LGBT, but what about A? On our show today. we'll explore the idea that some people have no sexual orientation -- not because of a hormonal deficiency or a positio...

The Nose Outlines Its Outrage With Chappelle, Line Cutters, And Always Following The Rules

Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:34:00 EST

Come on, you must be outraged about something! These are the headlines: "Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World." "Dave Chappelle's Hate-On For Hartford Called 'Sad,' 'Asinine.'" "No Exception For Newington Veteran Being Evicted For Smoking."

Does it ever feel like somebody just WANTS you to get mad? Today on the Nose we'll talk about outrage...

Making Tea Honestly

Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:56:39 EST

We try new products all the time, rarely with any insight into how they came to exist and what it took to bring them to market.

Barry Nalebuff wants to change that.

Nalebuff -- co-founder of Honest Tea -- is a soft drink tycoon, but he's also still what he was before he went into the beverage business:a professor at the Yale School of Management.

Barry thinks the s...

The Compelling Life Of Michael Bolton

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:06:39 EST

Michael Bolton has reinvented himself many times. A few years ago, he cut off his trademark hair. He put out an album of opera arias and another of American Songbook Standards. But probably his biggest challenge was dealing with his image as a romantic icon so permanently rooted in the dead center of the mainstream that poking fun at him became an easy way for people who really weren't all tha...

Searching For J.D. Salinger In A New Biography

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:10:32 EST

If you seek parallels between J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon they're easy to find.

Both were literary geniuses. Both were publicity-shunning recluses. Both men were psychosexually arrested by God knows what primal wound. Salinger seemed able to bond only with very young women and girls. Pynchon had a pattern -- somehow linked to inability to form normal alliances -- of hijacking th...

The Nose: Dave Chappelle Comes To Hartford, Millennials Hate Phones & Putin Puts On Sexy Lingerie

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:47:37 EST

We have in the works, for next week, a show about J.D. Salinger, the American writer most at odds with his own greatness.

Little did we suspect that Dave Chappelle, the comedian most at odds with his own greatness, would come to Hartford and have peculiar and very contrary experience with the audience here and create a national stir by his refusal to perform for them.

You'l...

In A World Of Voice Overs... "In A World" Is The Tip Of The Iceberg

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:19:24 EST

Thirteen years ago, I wrote an amusing but fairly ignorant op-ed piece for the New York Times triggered by watching a planetarium movie narrated by Tom Hanks. I wrote: "I miss the days of the anonymous, nobody-special narrator. Playing next door to Mr. Hanks at the museum was a Mount Everest Imax movie narrated by Liam Neeson. Take a cab to get there, and Isaac Hayes tells you to take your stuf...

Maybe Disco Doesn't Suck ...

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:59:05 EST

Through the lens of time, the anti-disco backlash looks a little ugly. What was disco, really? It started as an underground dance movement propelled by blacks, gays, and Puerto Ricans. It was a liberating and hedonistic music of the oppressed, and people from those groups gathered and mixed in the early downtown clubs.

Yes, it eventually was hijacked by the bridge and tunnel crowd and...