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Why Do We Give Red Roses for Valentine's Day?

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By Jake Rossen 
| Yahoo Life
For people in satisfying and committed relationships-or at least pretending to be-there's Valentine's Day, a holiday in which romance comes with a price tag attached and warm feelings are represented by a fresh bouquet of red roses. But why roses? And why red? How did they come to be synonymous with Valentine's Day? It comes down to a blend of the mythological and the practical. According to Reader's Digest, red roses became entangled with love in Greek lore.
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Why do babies laugh?

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By Jake Rossen 
| MSN
Humor has always been subjective. Where some people prefer the physical comedy of Jim Carrey, others may find the dry approach of Albert Brooks preferable. Babies, of course, are not big on subtlety. Making silly faces, tickling their feet, or pretending you've disappeared in an endless loop of temporal displacement-otherwise known as peek-a-boo-are all ways to get tiny people to laugh. But why exactly are they laughing? Is it because they find their parents funny, or it is a reflex?
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‘Jaws’: 10 Facts About Peter Benchley’s Bestselling Novel for Its 50th Anniversary

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By Jake Rossen 
| Flipboard
The closest thing to a “perfect” movie, according to Steven Spielberg Most directors would be lucky to have just one film in their careers that’s considered to be a classic, but Steven Spielberg has over two dozen, such …
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