Tag: alter

09 OCT

Who's Your Old-Timey Alter Ego?

You got: Florian Florian was the maî·tre d’ at the Hotel Belleclaire; he knew all of his customers’ secrets and traded them like currency. Getty Take quizzes and chill with the BuzzFeed app. Get the app You got: Wren Wren was an inventor who was sure he was going to invent the flying horse-and-buggy, if […]

07 SEP

Hit On Some Cuties At A Bar And We'll Reveal Your Bad Boy Alter Ego

You got: Slim Slim doesn’t have a last name. It’s just Slim. Don’t ask questions. Cuties at the bar just get lost in his smoldering eyes. Sometimes they cut themselves on his sharp cheekbones, but they don’t mind because he’s already captivated them with his mystery. Getty Images Take quizzes and chill with the BuzzFeed […]

16 AUG

‘Micromotors’ alter your gut’s chemistry to safely deliver medicine

There’s a reason diabetics can’t take their insulin orally (for the time being): stomach acid is super effective at dissolving it and similar large proteins, like antibiotics. But rather than force patients to pound pints of Maalox or chew a tub of Tums before taking their medicine, a team of researchers at UC San Diego […]

29 JUN

Google must alter worldwide search results, per orders from Canada’s top court

Enlarge / An employee walks in a hallway at Google Canada’s engineering headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. (credit: Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A small Canadian firm has acquired an injunction against Google from the Supreme Court of Canada that is being called the first global de-indexing order. Equustek, a Vancouver-based maker of networking devices, sued a […]

09 MAY

Eurovision: Brexit WON'T alter UK chance of getting nil points, analysis says

Almost half of all winners in the contest’s 61-year history have not been in the EU or its predecessor, the European Economic Community (EEC). And the UK has enjoyed roughly the same number of wins and second-place finishes both before and after joining the EEC in 1973. But Britain can’t expect much support in the […]

28 APR

The Trump Alter Ego Who Stuck to Real Estate

Meet our protagonist: a 70-year-old billionaire real estate developer with a flagship property in Palm Beach, Florida. He’s seriously litigious, and courts controversy by combining legal disputes with non-PC verbal disputes. He’s headstrong and extravagant. He uses the royal “we,” and asserts his aim is to “make Atlantic City great again.” The thinning hair remaining […]

28 JAN

Modern hard rockers Alter Bridge get in tune with the political mood and streaming

“It would be really nice if people could come together and unify a little more. We’re very polarized right now.” The ability to be both timely and timeless with one’s music is not an easy feat for any recording artist to accomplish. But modern hard-rock icons Alter Bridge were able to hit upon that mystical […]