Rebecca Romijn, who stars in the upcoming Tyler Perry comedy Good Deeds, has managed to balance her busy career with her most important role as mom to three-year-old twin daughters, Charlie and Dolly.

Romijn, 39, talked to Parade.com about her new film, life with twins, and how she and husband Jerry O’Connell make their relationship work despite the spotlight.

On how she juggles career and motherhood.
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The battle for e-reader supremacy keeps ratcheting up, as the holiday shopping season near — with Amazon’s announcement this week that it will start selling the full line of Kindles at Target, Best Buy and other stores.

By lining up more than 16,000 retail outlets, Amazon will give consumers a chance to handle the Kindle in all its flavors, as well as to get assistance if something goes wrong. That puts the Kindle on a more equal footing with the Nook, which is sold through Barnes & Noble stores.

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A show of photos about “cross cultural encounters” and one in which a ceramist comes to terms with his mother’s death last February are on view at Individual Artists of Oklahoma. Sho

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Rooney Mara first emerged years as one of Hollywood’s rising stars with memorable roles in the remake of The Nightmare on Elm Street (2005) and later in The Social Network (2010).

Now, the 26-year-old Golden Globe nominee is creating brand new buzz as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

“I spent over a year with the character and there are so many different things that I love about her,” Mara told Parade.com. “I th Full Post…

Oobleck has to be one of the oddest outgrowths of literature I’ve ever seen, but the green slime looks like a blast to make in the kitchen.

The Instructables website says Oobleck is “a non-newtonian fluid. That is, it acts like a liquid when being poured, but like a solid when a force is acting on it. You can grab it and then it will ooze out of your hands. Make enough Oobleck and you can even walk on it!” (Or run, as in this YouTube video.)

Oobleck is named for the goo featured in Dr. Seuss’ book, “Bartholomew and the Oobleck” (1949). It’s a sequel of sorts to “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins,” (1938) and features King Derwin of Didd and his young subject.

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With “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman serves up a big slice of sober pie.

“Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be,” he writes in this fascinating and flat-out disconcerting book.

Sure, our shared foibles can be amusing, as in the finding that “90 percent of drivers believe they are better than average.” But that widespread inflated sense of ourselves also contributes “to why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses,” 65 percent of which will fail in the first five years, Kahneman observes.

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