Man Turns Super Soaker Into Real Super Shotgun.
This is hardly child’s play: Randy Smith, 54, was reportedly found walking the streets of Fresno, Calif., Saturday night, carrying a Super Soaker that he had converted into a 20-gauge shotgun, according to KMPH. Normally cops wouldn’t raise an eyebrow at someone waltzing around town with one of a high-powered plastic water guns, but an uptick in [...]
A mysterious “floating sheet of goo” nicknamed the Cascade Creature has been puzzling Internet detectives for the last two weeks. Is it an old blanket? Is it an old whale placenta? Is it an old whale placenta wrapped in an old blanket? It’s actually an “enigmatic deep-sea jellyfish” aptly dubbed Deepstaria enigmatica. First described in [...]
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Teenagers’ love of energy drinks is taking a terrible toll on their teeth, scientists have warned. A study published in the Academy of General Dentistry charted an alarming increase in the consumption of both energy and sports drinks among young adults in the U.S. who use them to help get through the day. But they [...]
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WASHINGTON — For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set [...]
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The elderly woman who left Madrid’s courthouse on Thursday morning looked stooped and ghostly, but neither her obvious frailty nor the plain blue habit she wore kept the small crowd of onlookers from screaming at her. “Shameless!” one woman shouted. “How could you cause so much suffering?” Thursday was supposed to be the day that [...]
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Many women will empathise with the scenario of struggling home in high heels that, after a night of dancing, are torture to walk in. Now, however, a new vending machine concept that distributes flat shoes presents an ingenious solution. Ashley Ross, 25, and Lindsay Klimitz, 26, from Las Vegas, have bought the rights to manufacture [...]
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Sir Charles, err Madame Charles? The “Round Mound of Rebound” Charles Barkley is now sporting a dress for a new Weight Watchers campaign which will debut April 8. The NBA Hall-of-Famer and current TNT commentator has been very open about his struggles either maintaining or losing weight and staying in shape. In January, Barkley was [...]
Continue reading …Coca-Cola Grudgingly Tweaks Coloring Recipe Even Though It Probably Won’t Give You Cancer
March 8, 2012 No Comment
Coca-Cola has hit back at claims from a consumer watchdog group that the food additive used to give its products their familiar brown color causes cancer. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) recently called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the use of caramel coloring in popular soft [...]
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It seems like everything is tied to cancer. Now, milk is apparently cancerous too. A new study from Harvard University says that pasteurized milk is linked to causing hormone-dependent cancers. Farms force their cows to eat genetically modified corn and other foods which makes them sick, and in turn, makes us sick! Are you going [...]
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Rabbits, bobcats, deer, and raccoons are on steep decline in the Florida Everglades, where an explosion in Burmese pythons has been decimating native mammal populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (via Darryl Fears of The Washington Post). The number of invasive pythons in southern Florida has [...]
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