Hemp Seeds: Why and How You Should Be Eating This Superfood
Humans have been using hemp for thousands of years, and for good reason too--it's extremely versatile. Used for clothes, beauty products, paper, food, milk, pet products and more, hemp lives up to the...
View ArticleHow Fattening is Your Cocktail? Calorie Counts of 20 Summer Drinks
It's misleading to watch fictional characters like Don Draper and James Bond blithely consume drink after drink with seemingly no effect on their enviable abdomens. The truth is that a cocktail can...
View ArticleFBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has used drones for domestic surveillance purposes in the United States at least ten times without obtaining warrants. In three additional cases,...
View ArticleNew oxygen injection allows you to hold your breath for 20 to 30 minutes
We all know that breathing an oxygen rich liquid is an old idea which does have some advantages but it has more detriments than benefits. For example the removal of carbon dioxide from bloodstream...
View ArticlePentagon: Who We're At War With Is Classified
In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.”So who exactly are those...
View Article'Fat shaming' actually increases risk of becoming or staying obese, new study...
Making overweight or obese people feel bad about their bodies doesn’t do anything to motivate them to lose weight – actually, a new study finds it does just the opposite.People who felt discriminated...
View ArticleDelta accused of forcing paralyzed man to crawl off of plane
A former college professor who cannot walk has sued Delta Airlines in federal court, claiming that crew members on two flights told him the only way he could get off the plane was to crawl down the...
View ArticleA 95-year-old resident of a nursing home died early Saturday, hours after...
Police are waiting for an autopsy to determine the cause of death of a 95-year-old Park Forest nursing home resident who died several hours after a confrontation with officers, reports WBBM’s Mike...
View ArticleManning was trying 'to hopefully save lives,' lawyer says in final argument
Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of the biggest leak of classified material in American history, is not a traitor but a well-intentioned young man who was “trying to ply his knowledge to hopefully save...
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How giant magnetic fields are formed
Scientists have shown for the first time the occurrence of an instability in the interior of neutron stars that could lead to gigantic magnetic fields, possibly triggering dramatic explosions in the...
View ArticleRelease of 104 Palestinian prisoners gets Israel cabinet's nod
After a stormy meeting, Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved a proposal by hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netantyahu to allow the contentious release of 104 Palestinian prisoners to coincide with the...
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Man shot in his driveway by police while looking for a cigarette in his...
Lying in a hospital bed the night after he was shot by Escambia County sheriff’s deputies in his own front yard, Roy Middleton only had one question: Why?Middleton, 60, of the 200 block of Shadow Lawn...
View ArticleThe world’s GPS system is vulnerable to hackers or terrorists who could use...
The world’s GPS system is vulnerable to hackers or terrorists who could use it to hijack ships -- even commercial airliners, according to a frightening new study that exposes a huge potential hole in...
View ArticleChoking on food common among U.S. kids: study
Each day over the past decade, about 34 U.S. children went to the emergency room after choking on food, according to a new study of a group of nationally-representative hospitals.Researchers found that...
View ArticleHeart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.Shetty is not a public...
View ArticleThird Amendment suit questions police fridge-raiding tactics
A rare Third Amendment lawsuit pits a Las Vegas-area man against police who he claims acted like a bunch of rampaging Redcoats in his apartment.Old school RedcoatsThe Third Amendment is a right so...
View ArticleU.S. Food-Safety Inspectors Miss Most Imports. Why Not Outsource It?
Think of it as off-shoring for food-safety inspections. Under new rules proposed by the Food and Drug Administration, food destined for the U.S. would be inspected abroad and importers would be held...
View ArticleJudge fires longtime court employee for providing document that helped free...
A Kansas City man freed from prison three decades after being wrongfully convicted of rape considers Sharon Snyder his “angel” for giving him a public document that showed him how to properly seek DNA...
View Article‘Anti-drone’ militant group claims it will carry out a suicide attack for...
A new militant group by the name of Ansarul Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the Parachinar attack which has left at least 57 dead and around 180 injured and says this is their first attack...
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Astronomy Photograps (12pics)
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is pleased to announce the shortlist for this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.The Awards will be announced on September 18, 2013, while an...
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