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You know the planet is in a bad state when a sea turtle poops plastic for a month after being rescued. That was the case for one of the sea swimmers when it was saved after showing signs of distress at Melbourne Beach, Florida by marine biologists. A large piece of plastic was dislodged from […]

Created accidentally in 1942, Super Glue has been mending snapped coffee cup handles and sticking broken Bluetooth receivers to ears for many decades. Unfortunately, the wonder glue’s inventor, Dr. Harry Coover, passed away at the age of 94 over the weekend at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee. Though Super Glue came about as an accident, […]

If you thought Twitter was just a place to meet people, then think again.  These days, Twitter is everything from a one-stop source for breaking news to a customer service outlet, with a dash of humor thrown in.  As more and more people hop on the Twitter bandwagon, from winning celebrities to normal folks like […]

Sometimes tracking down a criminal is a lot tougher than when cops return texts from dumb drug dealers or follow a trail of empty candy wrappers after a break-in at a candy store. Like a modern-day version of the Hardy Boys, tech savvy college student Mark Bao didn’t sit idly by after his MacBook Air […]

In a very bizarre twist to the classic Oedipal complex, a Florida man has been arrested for forcing his mother to stay in his room and watch movies with him—at ax-point. Robert Tuttle, age 22, of Englewood, was arrested Thursday morning after threatening to kill his mother and attacking her with the ax. Tuttle’s mother, […]

The idea of babies created solely within a laboratory has been fodder for science fiction stories and religious nightmares for years but now, thanks to research coming out of Japan, such children may be one step closer to a reality. The research team at Yokohama City University was able to successfully develop sperm from fragments […]

Sign up with Dish Network and receive a free gun? It sounds like a carefully crafted punchline to a “red state” joke, but when you live in Hamilton, Montana, it’s no laughing matter—it’s a money-maker. Steve Strand, the owner of the local Radio Shack, has been offering his potential satellite television customers this peculiar perk […]

It’s a big week for UFOs in the news. Even the world of rock and roll has gotten in on the alien act. The Iranians have built their own flying saucer. Folks in Colorado captured video of a triangular set of lights in the sky. And maybe even bigger, former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar […]

It’s one of the most amazing stories of survival I’ve ever heard.  A 25-year-old father of one from Birdwell, Barnsley in South Yorkshire named Matthew Lowe was sucked through a giant metal processing machine, had his entire body smashed and mangled, yet he’s alive today.  Call it a miracle, because what he went through should’ve […]

Yale Law School is one of the most prestigious universities in our nation. Known for educating Supreme Court justices, I imagine you won’t find Dr. Seuss‘ famous bit of literature “Go Dog Go” inside its huge library that includes more than a million books. Starting next week, what you will find in the Yale library […]

Netflix is growing every day, thanks to lots of partnerships with media groups and content producers, and among those to hitch their wagon back up to Netflix are Showtime Networks, the premium cable channel.  Still, Showtime is removing some of its shows from Netflix, since Netflix is increasingly becoming a competitor to Showtime’s own offerings. […]