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Published 12:01 am Saturday, July 16, 2011

Overdrawn at the memory bank: Brain reseachers say that our dependence on Google and other Internet search engines has changed the way we remember things; we may not remember a particular fact, but we recall where to go for the information, an amnesia dubbed “The Google Effect“.

A related memory problem, “The Facebook Effect” occurs when you forget what you were going to do and spend the day playing FarmVille and updating your status.

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Fill ‘er up with Red Delicious and check the corn oil: A Wenatchee-area teacher is fueling his pickup with ethanol he makes from apples culled from his neighbors’ orchards. A crate of apples and some yeast makes about four gallons of fuel.

The teacher first experimented with wine grapes, but was having problems with wine tourists following him with corkscrews and asking for tastings of his latest release.

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“When it gets hot like this, you know what I do?” A 26-foot tall sculpture of Marilyn Monroe, her skirt billowing as in the scene from “The Seven-Year Itch,” was unveiled in Chicago. The sculpture is scheduled to remain up until spring and through Chicago’s cold, blustery winter.

Which means this time Marilyn won’t need to keep her undies in the icebox.

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