Lifestyle Lifestlye news and features. http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/blogcategory/4/16/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:23:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Barbados: a totally tropical coral utopia http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1849/16/ The strange outsider in a club of tropical islands that span a glorious arc stretching from Venezuela to Florida, Barbados is immediately set apart from its volcanic neighbours for a remarkable reason: it is formed entirely of coral. Articles - Lifestyle Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:57:16 +0100 Knit one, purl two: Guys, too, are now tending to their knitting http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1715/16/ A growing number of men across the country are picking up an unlikely hobby - knitting - and changing the face of the knitting world in the process. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 20:03:55 +0100 Parenting from the left side of the brain http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1714/16/ Scientist parents don't necessarily check their analytical minds at the nursery door. Some of them look on the common problems of parenting as an intellectual puzzle that needs to be solved. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 20:02:37 +0100 Micro-farming comes of age: How to grow crops in your kitchen http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1709/16/ Micro greens, once the domain of haute cuisine, are now ready to grow in kitchens everywhere. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 19:56:35 +0100 Home cooking hits the back burner, but food culture heats up http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1706/16/ While books about food are flying off the shelves and cooking shows are hot, people are increasingly relying on their microwaves to make dinner. Cooking is becoming more recreational and less a necessity. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 19:53:04 +0100 The latest in newly discovered species: Pay for it, name it http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1701/16/ Want your name in the record books? Can’t find a gift for that special someone? Now you can name a species and help fund the not-so-sexy science of taxonomy. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 19:46:47 +0100 To the ends of the earth, just to broadcast the experience back home http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1699/16/ Solitary expeditions to the ends of the earth - those glorified by Shackleton, Peary, and Sir Edmund Hillary - are being replaced by interactive trips built around streaming video, blog updates and Internet sites that document every trial, travail and observation of a new generation of explorers. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 19:44:01 +0100 Couture by the slice: Wedding cakes get a makeover http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1696/16/ The wedding cake has been a matrimonial staple since medieval times. Now, high-end cake designers are serving up more colorful, more elaborate, more personalized - and more expensive - wedding cakes than ever before. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 19:39:26 +0100 Tech-savvy pen collectors still think real ink http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1695/16/ It takes one look around any lecture hall or office to make you believe that the ink pen's days are numbered. Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 19:37:57 +0100 Dieters take a jab at fat with injections for weight loss http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1693/16/ In the name of melting off pounds, would you inject a hormone extracted from a pregnant woman's urine? Even one that studies show does nothing to help weight loss? Based on anecdotal evidence, more and more dieters are saying "yes." Articles - Lifestyle Tue, 27 May 2008 19:35:04 +0100