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There's a new gun ownership study published in the journal Injury Prevention by researchers Bindu Kalesan, Marcos Villarreal, and Katherine Keyes of Columbia University (in NYC), and Sandro Galea of Boston University (in Boston), all from the School of Public Health at their respective...

Just as predicted, the healthcare insurers are now saying that because of the influx of previously uninsured people, who are all sicker than they expected, and not enough young healthy people willing to throw good money away, they're gonna have to raise the premiums by a lot. A really, really...

Today is July 1st. It's Canada Day, and International Joke Day. Coincidence? I don't think so. July 4th is, of course, Independence Day. Ben Franklin once wrote, "Time may be money, but your money can't buy time." Oh, wait, that was James Taylor. July 6th is Fried Chicken Day, in honor of...

How passing the plate becomes the 'Sunday morning stickup' Discuss. :D

This never gets old.

There are reasons the military doesn't want soldiers taking pictures with their cell phones and then posting them to the Internet. One of them is the geotag found in the EXIF of the pictures. In what may be the most clear-cut example of a selfie photobomb, an ISIS soldier, standing in front...

I don't think it'll work, Reds fans, but it's certainly an inventive use of the petition Website. :D Change.org Kevin Gregg Petition

If you're a math geek, you already know. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. You can use pi to to calculate the circumference or area of a circle (area = pi times the radius squared: A = πr2). The Pi Day celebration is held annually on March 14th, because 3/14...

The US Navy's new railgun has debuted at the Navy’s Future Force Science and Technology Expo at the Washington Convention Center this week, and it's gnarly as far as big guns go. Conventional weapons like a Hellfire missile can travel little over Mach 1 and a 5-inch gun hit targets up to 13...

Kermit, TX is out there between Odessa and Pecos, north of the Interstate up near the corner of New Mexico. It has a sprawling population of about 5700 people. Founded in 1910 and the county seat of Winkler County, the town is named after Kermit Roosevelt who visited a nearby ranch to hunt...

That's exactly it. Along with the "simple questions" we have unsubstantiated allegation of illegal activity thrown on. Like you said, if the allegations can be substantiated there are proper procedures and authorities to deal with those. Posting on EO is most definitely not the proper procedure...

Legolas Greenleaf the Elf (Orlando Bloom) in Lord of the Rings can fire off arrows in rapid fire succession like crazy, just as fast as he could draw them from his quiver. Same with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in The Hunger Games. Grab. Whoosh. Grab. Whoosh. ("I recently read about a...

Ah, the Super Bowl, that time of year where we get to see the latest from Carl's Jr slash Hardees. In an homage to a scene from Austin Powers, played to the music of all-natural meat-eating Ted Nugent, Carl's Jr debuts the All Natural Burger, with no antibiotics, no added hormones, and...

I don't even know how to process this.

Eclipse is her name, and she routinely gets on the bus, alone, rides it to her stop at the dog park, then gets off the bus, alone. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Seattle-dogs-rush-hour-ride-on-the-bus-by-herself-weekly-288345081.html?tab=video&c=y "She's been urbanized, totally. She's...

Riotous thugs pour into the streets of Columbus after the Ohio State Buckeyes won the first ever National Championship tournament in college football. Wait? What? Those were not thugs! They were a crowds of revelers! That is how the mobs of mostly white college students, residents and...

Border drones are ineffective, badly managed, too expensive, official says US Customs and Border Protection, the Guardians of the Galactic Perimeter. The Predator B drones, the unarmed versions of the MQ-9 Reaper drone that the Air Force flies in Pakistan, have a price tag of a cool $20...

Little kid wants to help do the dishes but he's not nearly tall enough yet, and the dog is in the way. So the kid adapted and overcame. But, what do these pictures really illustrate? Is it a lesson in perseverance in overcoming obstacles and attaining your goals? Or is it a cruel, selfish and...

Today Amazon is giving away 40 paid apps and games, and a lot of them are actually really popular apps, including Terraria, djay 2, TuneIn Radio Pro, and Plex. Among the others that shouldn't be overlooked is the $30.99 Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It's also On Sale at Google Play...

Christmas Decorations Ditto This looks like something I'd do, but even that looks like a lot of work. :D