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Ebola 'Totally Out of Control,' Doctors Without Borders Says

Rodney K. Smith: The Washington Redskins must deal with the reality of a racist brand

Young people are sexting - but girls are judged more harshly than boys, study finds -- Not terribly surprising. The double standard continues to thrive.

Swedish health authorities discover every girl in one class had undergone genital mutilation: report

Mother sues hospital claiming forced C-section

Game show host Chuck Woolery stumps for Tea Party's McDaniel -- That's sad. I liked "Love Connection". What's up with ultra-conservative TV hosts?

Male faces 'buttressed against punches' by evolution

Elitist, Superfluous, Or Popular? We Polled Americans on the Oxford Comma

Slovak parents fail to block adoption by gay couple -- in England

States look to the past for execution methods -- This, as Tennessee has decided to revert back to using the electric chair.

Warm Pacific Behind U.S. Cold: Study

Canada vending machines pop out marijuana

Olive oil and salad combined 'explain' Mediterranean diet success

White privilege 101: Here's the basic lesson Paul Ryan, Tal Fortgang and Donald Sterling need -- Really insightful article that dovetails with my recent "microaggressions" post.

Fox's Keith Ablow: Schools should ban leggings because they distract my son -- This is one step away from, "She was wearing a short skirt--she was asking for it."

Why America's favorite anarchist thinks most American workers are slaves -- Bad title for an article that proposes a minimal lump salary for all adult citizens (which is an interesting idea).

How yawning could help cool down your brain

Soy Sauce May Hold Secret Ingredient In Treatment Of HIV/AIDS

New metal eating plant may help to clean contaminated soil

Focus: Why We Can’t Remember the Future

Ex-NYPD cop charged with hate crime over anti-Jewish graffiti in Brooklyn

How Oklahoma's Botched Execution Affects the Death-Penalty Debate

Condoleezza Rice latest graduation speaker to back out amid protests

Three students expelled for harassment at California college: report -- Remember the incident with the bike lock around a student's neck? That's this one.

Did Floyd Mayweather Use Abortion Rumor to Punish His Ex?

Wider Hips may Suggest a more Promiscuous Woman: Study -- I suppose this is not the time to give out my measurements.

Diners believe a meal is tastier the more they have paid for it, say researchers -- Like The Dave Matthews Band once intoned, "You pay for what you get." (This may indeed be cognitive dissonance at work, where the consumer, having paid so much for the meal, convinces him- or herself that it must be worth the cost, because otherwise they would experience self-criticism for spending beyond the meal's intrinsic value.)

Serial murders of secret infants, as alleged in Utah, 'very rare'

‘Bully’ suffers jeers, name-calling himself -- "An Ohio man sentenced by a judge to spend yesterday wearing a sign reading “I AM A BULLY” at a busy suburban Cleveland intersection was greeted by a boisterous stream of honking car horns, jeers and insults." Technically, this should fall under "cruel & unusual treatment".

While You Were Watching 'Game of Thrones,' Neil deGrasse Tyson Shared His Solution to Global Warming

Angry at your spouse? Check your blood sugar

Crankier Babies May Get More TV Time

Finding May Explain Why Women More Likely Develop Alzheimer's

Bullying occurs among children higher up on the social ladder, according to new research -- "The study concluded that girls are more likely to be subject to this type of bullying. The highest incidences of bullying occurred among girls, but boys were more likely to target girls who were climbing social rungs rather than boys who were doing the same." Sexist high-school assholes.

Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes -- "Gregory Gerdeman, a biologist and neuropharmacologist at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., said he has no reason to doubt the new study's findings but worries generally about marijuana research funded by federal agencies, like the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which is charged with limiting drug use."

Utah backs away from anti-gay-parenting study -- This is the same study that was excoriated in the suit that challenged Michigan's constitutional same-sex marriage ban.

Procrastinating on those taxes? Blame your genes

Covering a Cough or Sneeze More Important Than Ever? Germ Particles Spread Much Farther Than Previously Thought -- "'When you cough or sneeze, you see the droplets, or feel them if someone sneezes on you,' [John] Bush [of MIT] said in a press release. 'But you don't see the cloud, the invisible gas phase. The influence of this gas cloud is to extend the range of the individual droplets, particularly the small ones.'"

New, tiny species of crayfish discovered in the swamps of coastal eastern Australia -- I was going to say, "Delicious!" But then I saw that the creatures are "Near Threatened."

Mystery Solved: Why Flies Are So Hard to Swat

Don't Bother 'Faking It' in the Bedroom: Study says partners can gauge each other's sexual satisfaction

NASA orders its staff to stop talking to Russia, because Crimea

Appeals court upholds NYC ban on worship services in schools

Man hits boy with truck, is severely beaten, robbed when stopping to help

Lawsuit: Woman frozen alive in L.A. hospital died trying to escape

Too much running tied to shorter lifespan, studies find

A Brain Region for Resisting Alcohol's Allure -- the lateral habenula

Texas judge orders prisons to name lethal injection drug supplier -- State to appeal.

Blue Line crash update: Brakes engaged, train wasn't speeding -- You know, I'd seen some headlines about this story a few days ago, but the pictures are something else.

US top court rules domestic abusers can't own guns -- Somebody alert George Zimmerman.

Beer marinades may reduce carcinogens in grilled meats: study -- This is the third news story I've read this week that mentions PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). As for the marinade, my only question is, "Is it tasty?"

Selfie addict took TWO HUNDRED a day--and tried to kill himself when he couldn't take perfect photo