Lisa Newman, Author at Blast

Interview: Brittany Gibbons had sex every day for a whole year

October 21, 2013

The thing about fears and anxieties is that you have to face them to overcome them. Afraid of snakes? Hold one. Can’t stand speaking in front of people? Give more presentations. My mom has struggled with anxiet...

Verily Magazine Focuses on Beauty without Photoshop

Lisa Newman

October 17, 2013

It’s about time. There’s finally a magazine that has vowed not to use Photoshop to alter the pictures of women in their magazine in any way. Verily Magazine, started by Kara Eschbach, a former finance and inve...

Federal researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy report that it would take only 15,000 square miles -- less than 1/7 the area now used to harvest all of the corn across the country -- to produce enough algae fuel to replace all of our petroleum fuel. (Media credit/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Real Man: 8-year-old boy writes letter to Santa, asking him to stop kids from bullying his sister

Lisa Newman

September 18, 2013

Not toys. Not video games. Ryan Suffern, an eight year-old from North Carolina, can’t stick up for his twin sister quite yet, and by that I mean beat up the bullies that keep taunting her for her weight. But h...

Attention all Muggles: J.K. Rowlings is returning to the Harry Potter Universe

Lisa Newman

September 16, 2013

Warner Bros. Entertainment has entered a partnership with J.K. Rowling to start a new film franchise. Set 70 years before Harry’s time, the film’s star will be a familiar character: Newt Scamander

My Story: Miss Glass. Osteogenesis Imperfecta didn’t stop me from playing sports in high school, and it won’t stop me now

Lisa Newman

August 23, 2013

The movie “Unbreakable” came out when I was 12. I watched it with a certain level of fascination. I knew what the villain’s disease was. I had heard of it many times in my life. This portrayal confirmed my own ...

Juliette Frette: Playboy Playmate, journalist?

Lisa Newman

April 7, 2009

At first glance, Juliette Frette looks like a typical Playboy Playmate: clear skin, long blond hair, and gigantic breasts. Frette began working with Playboy four years ago doing occasional spreads, which even...

Doin it and doin it and doin it in public

Lisa Newman

March 1, 2009

The names of subjects have been changed to protect their privacy and safety. It was mid-day. Northeastern University student Sarah Alverston was sitting in the library staring blankly into a textbook that sh...

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