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Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto the water, you were wrong.  If you’re a fish, you’re at risk for a killing in the wake of the Arkansas fish kill.  For humans, the danger is boat-attacking sharks.  Adding itself to the list of global trouble spots is Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.  An […]

All Guadalupe Cruz-Vasquez wanted to do was go back home.  To that end, he walked into the office of the Jerome County Sheriff’s Department and asked officers to deport him back to his homeland for being an illegal immigrant.  The police refused to take him into custody, despite his demands.  So he did something to […]

In order to get any piece of software to run on a modern computing system, it has to be verified as being legitimate.  To do this, you need some kind of key.  Well, when Sony was designing the PS3, they put the master key on the hardware of the PlayStation itself, which means that hackers were able […]

For the company’s 40th anniversary, Starbucks is celebrating throughout the country.  Among the many things they’ll be doing is apparently having a midlife crisis.  Why else would the company go out and get corporate plastic surgery and drop the coffee from their logo?  That’s right, Starbucks has a new logo, and they are dropping coffee […]

Apparently, people still love Eminem.  That’s the gist of the music section of last night’s People’s Choice Awards, where Em was the dominant figure.  The Detroit-area rapper picked up multiple wins last night, including Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Hip Hop Artist, Favorite Music Video, and Favorite Song.  Entertainment Weekly has the full line-up of People’s […]

The Chinese military is getting more and more advanced by the day, according to sources in the intelligence industry.  See, for example, China’s new cutting-edge J-20 fighter, a stealth fighter plane that combines Russian engine technology with the F-22 stealth fighter’s body design.  If the pictured plane is the J-20, then the Chinese air force […]

Raw milk producer Our Cows Dairy in Chilliwack, British Columbia, has been running into trouble.  Under BC’s Public Health Act, raw milk sold for human consumption is a health hazard and thus, the dairy was ordered to stop producing raw milk.  Rather than investing in a Pasteurization system, Our Cows and their 22-head herd have simply changed […]

I know cows look cute and cuddly and innocent, but cows are a lot tougher than you think.  After all, any animal that size, when put in a life or death situation, can easily take out a human being and cows are very dangerous when cornered.  A 70-year-old farmer from Fort Pierce, Florida, named Oscar […]

For years, the staple of British pubs (both in Britain and abroad) has been the pint.  The pint was first standardized by an Act of Parliament in 1698 in an attempt to ensure that all pubs sold the same amount of booze for the same price.  The first significant change to that ruling is taking […]

As you get older and more mature, your hairline doesn’t, according to new research released in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.  When you’re young, hair falls out and is replaced by new hair.  Eventually, this process stops and when your hair falls out, nothing replaces it.  Or rather, researchers say, the root cause of baldness […]

If you’re a resident of Idaho or Washington state, check your lottery ticket.  The winning numbers for last night’s $335-million-dollar Mega Millions drawing were , 8, 15, 25 and 47, with 42 being the Mega Ball number.  Winning Mega Millions tickets were sold in Idaho and Washington state, though officials don’t know where the tickets […]

April Magolon, 27, was at Disney World’s Epcot Center when she says one of the costumed characters got a little bit too friendly.  She claims that one of the park’s costumed mascots, dressed like Donald Duck, grabbed her breast and then made a joke about it.  Disney lawyers fought both the allegation and the lawsuit […]

High atop Italy’s Mt. Pirio, near the town of Padua, a group of Catholic mountain climbers scaled to the top of the peak and put down a special statue to commemorate their achievement:  a statue of the Virgin Mary.  Shortly after the Christmas season, the Virgin Mary statue disappeared from Mt. Pirio and was replaced […]