CHICAGO ― Matt Haag used to be just another suburban kid going to high school, working at McDonald’s and aggravating his parents by spending endless hours on his Xbox. Today the lanky, dark-eyed 21-year-old is a global celebrity to an enormous number of young people, very few of whom know him as Matt. They call him Nadeshot, master of the virtual submachine gun, a guy who makes a six-figure living playing the video game “Call of Duty.” Haag is among a handful of Chicago-area men who have found a

A study has found that women are more likely to dream of interpersonal disputes, while men tend to face war or calamities, the Guardian reported.Antonio Zadra and Genevieve Robert of the University of Montreal collected 9,796 dream reports, written by 572 participants over the course of two to five weeks.They found that interpersonal conflict was twice as frequent in women’s nightmares as men’s. Men were much more likely to report nightmares involving disaster or calamity, such as floods, earthq

A quiz to self-evaluate one’s carbohydrate addiction is drawing netizens’ attention. Carbohydrate addiction is defined as an excessive craving for high-carb foods such as rice, cookies and chocolate to feel normal.  Ask yourself if any of these statements applies to you. If you agree with more than 4 statements, you might be a carb addict. 1. I eat bread rather than rice in the morning.2. I lack concentration at around 3-4 and feel hungry.3. I feel tired after having a meal.4. I always have choc

Hair loss or baldness has been a tricky problem for both men and women to tackle since there are only a few choices. (OSEN)The ways are namely hair implant surgery, which is too costly and prone to side effects, and medication, which only slows the process of hair loss.However, a new technology that would allow completely new hair follicle to be formed out of donor dermal cells has been developed by a group of scientists in Taiwan, according to foreign news reports. Scientists have been experime

A new study showed that sugar in the diet may cause cardiovascular-related deaths, Forbes reported. Researchers estimated that people who consumed between 10 and 25 percent of their calories from added sugar had a 30 percent higher chance of cardiovascular mortality. For people who consumed more than 25 percent of their calories from added sugar, the risk nearly tripled.According to the research, sugar has adverse health effects as “empty calories” that supply food energy but little or no other

Domestic tourism remains sluggish a decade after Korea introduced a five-day workweek system, once billed as a golden opportunity for the leisure and tourism sector. Outbound travel, meanwhile, has grown steadily, data from the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports show. According to the data reported to President Park Geun-hye during a meeting on tourism policies on Monday, the aggregate days that Koreans spent on domestic travel for all of 2012 were 360 million days, little changed from 350

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The Daegu Softball League is seeking new members for its 2014 season. The league was founded by Douglas Karalius, Chris Bolger and Jason Yantorn in 2007.“This is the most fun you will find on an afternoon in Daegu,” Karalius said. “You will make new friends, and have rivalries to talk about all week while you wait for the next game.”The season consists of 10-11 games, depending on the number of participants, and the games will be held each Sunday. The season will run from the end of March until

Ringopop Swing is launching dance lessons this week in Seoul. The name “Ringopop” is based on the bar where the classes will be held, said Omar Myers, the host and instructor of the dance classes.He started the club with Korean cofounder “TZ” to contribute to what he said was a diverse swing community in one of the biggest swing dance scenes in the world. “At the dance lessons, we give people the tools to have fun on the dance floor and through this we enable them to get in touch with a lot of l

Park No-hae’s photo exhibition sheds light on Asia’s unseen workers

TANGIERS, Morocco (AFP) ― A century after it was built, the Cervantes theater in Tangiers, once a symbol of the famed Moroccan city’s cultural vibrancy, is derelict and risks disappearing altogether, eclipsed by flashy new developments. The 1,400-seat playhouse, just a short distance from the old port, is a masterpiece of early 20th-century Spanish architecture in the once-international city that in its heyday hosted a wealth of colorful characters and communities. But today the blue and yellow