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There’s absolutely nothing I love more than a crazy conspiracy. Alien abductions are real, as far as I’m concerned. The moon landing was filmed in a sound stage in Burbank. Area 51 houses the remains of the saucer crash that happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The Great Seal on the back of the […]

If you’re a medical student, or interested in becoming one, I hope you’re prepared to operate on a giant caveman. No, not a prehistoric bearded guy with a sloping brow, bad posture, and a leopard-print loincloth. I’m talking about CAVEman, the gigantic glowing practice dummy for budding surgeons and anatomy classes of the future. CAVE […]

Researchers have successfully launched and observed a new robotic ocean glider which is powered by heat. This underwater vessel is a little longer than a yardstick, but uses an unlimited source of energy to propel itself without needing fuel. In fact, it can travel thousands of miles for months on end! A propeller is not […]

I’m no different from anyone else. Increasing gas prices put a burden on my monthly budget and leave a gaping dark void in my wallet. As someone who travels the highway, byways and back roads at times for my job, watching the numbers on the pump whirl by while I’m filling my tank makes me […]

Have you ever seen a movie like The Butterfly Effect where memory flashbacks are sometimes portrayed like a DVD on fast forward? Well researchers out of the University of Arizona have figured out that this is kind of how the brain consolidates memories from the prior day. In other words, when processing the day’s events, […]

While greasy, grimy gopher guts from the children’s song didn’t make the cut, several meals from some of the most popular restaurant chains scattered across the nation are on the list of the (cue up the dramatic chipmunk’s theme song) Worst Foods in America. I’m sure there are several restaurants in your neighborhood that cooked […]

I’ve never been the first one to adopt any new video game system. The initial launching prices and general lack of titles available for the system (whatever it may be) is always enough to make me sit back and wait for six months or a year.  I like to buy a system knowing it will […]

Sleep apnea is an awful, awful condition, and I can only imagine how many pots of steaming java you’d need to go for 20 years without real rest! I have enough trouble staying awake after a good 8 hours plus a nap. My father, among other things, has always had horrible snoring. Over the course […]

I’ll admit it; I got to the computer game long after everyone else.  I’ve got friends who, to this day, can navigate the DOS prompt blindfolded.  Meanwhile, the only keyboard control that I use on a daily basis is CTRL V for cutting and pasting stuff.  I am totally not a keyboard ninja. Feel free […]

If there was one job, other than possibly taxidermy, that I would totally avoid is working in the sewer industry. The idea of finding a live cat combines these two concepts and pretty much gives all of us a gross visual in the old cranium. Those drains and toilets have a tendency to catch some […]

Actor Roy Scheider died Sunday afternoon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Hospital in Little Rock. He had been treated there for multiple myeloma over the last several years at the university’s Myeloma Institute for Research. The New York Times has reported that his wife, Brenda Seimer, released a statement explaining that Scheider […]

As a kid, did you ever play the game where one person makes up a statement and the phrase must be whispered word-for-word into the person sitting next to you? The phrase travels around the room and when it finally reaches the last person, the group gets to see how distorted the original statement became. […]