Dig This on CBS Sunday Morning

Have you ever dreamed of enlarging those sandbox toys you enjoyed as a kid? Have you ever thought it would be cool to operate an excavator, bulldozer or skid steer? Dig This is your opportunity to play in the dirt – super sized. –Dig This Bill Geist is one of the best parts of CBS Sunday Morning as he is always doing stuff that is, well, just silly. One week he bought land on the Moon. Another he learned the manly art of being a Hot Dog Vendor. This week he took that childhood joy of playing with Tonka Trucks…

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Life Expectancy Calculator Your Gonna Die, but When?

On CBS’s Sunday Morning Show there was a story about living a really long time by restricting your food intake. If you eat, say two thousand calories a day, which is like a Big Mac and fries, then you can expect to live to be 140 or so years old. The only problem, of course, is that more people worth rather die than live on a diet of 2000 calories a day.But if you liked an idea of how long your going to live doing what you are doing now, try one of the many online Life Expectancy Calculators. These…

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Micheal Kalish -License to Sample

Micheal Kalish was featured on CBS Sunday Morning today. He’s a young artist who uses old car license plates to make art. He does some original work, such as groupings of metal flowers and US maps. But he is most famous for his portraits and this is where I have a problem with him. These are not his portraits. In music they call it sampling when you steal someone else’s music and drop into a song and call it your own. Micheal Kalish has sampled images from the greatest photographers and illustrators in history to make his art. Does he…

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