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Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary: School officials cite unpaid balances on students' meal accounts | Utah school district apologises after meals taken away from pupils -- To really get to the depth of the story, realize that the students--elementary students--were served a full lunch, then had that lunch thrown away in front of them & replaced with fruit & a milk. The food could not be served to another student because of protocol. The food was wasted & then on top of that more food had to be expended to give to the kids. This was not just cruel but stupid.

Looking at photos online can change the way you eat -- "When people look at too many pictures of food, it can actually make the food less enjoyable. [I]t takes looking at least 60 images to feel that way[.]"

Long-Forgotten Photographs Reveal Challenger Disaster As It Happened

Federal judge sent hundreds of bigoted emails

President Obama: I don't think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol | more

Silent Technical Privilege: As a novice computer programmer, I always got the benefit of the doubt—because I looked the part -- Asian-American male perspective on privilege

Study: Nearly half of black men arrested by age 23

Chinese Herbal Medicines Help Control Diabetes: Study

Today's WTF: Kindergarten Teacher Rips Girl's Shirt Off As Punishment, Makes Her Sit Naked

Christie says he was misled on George Washington Bridge lane closures | emails in question -- The scandal widens.

Man gets 8-month sentence in toddler-slapping case -- "Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of six months in prison, and Hundley reserved his right to argue for a lower sentence. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman said he imposed a higher sentence in part because of Hundley's criminal history, which includes a previous assault."

What It Means to Be a Public Intellectual -- "Dylan Byers knows nothing of your work, and therefore your work must not exist. [...] The machinery of racism requires no bigotry from Dylan Byers. It merely requires that Dylan Byers sit still."

The Poverty Line Was Designed Assuming Every Family Had a Housewife Who Was a 'Skillful Cook'

Scalia finds his predictions on same-sex-marriage ruling being borne out

Republicans' belief in evolution plummets, poll reveals

'Men are stuck' in gender roles, data suggest

Female Orgasm May Be the Missing Link in Post-Shag Pillow Talk | The science of pillow talk -- oxytocin

An Academic Approach To Creepy Pickup Artists

Does Reading Actually Change the Brain?

School named for honorary KKK leader to be changed

This is the Luxury Resort Where the "Affluenza" Killer Will Be "Punished"

'Unbelievably egregious': EPA official who faked being a CIA agent to get out work sentenced to 32 months prison

The Man Who Duped Millionaires Into Paying Big Bucks For Fake Wine

Ritalin and other pills for ADHD tied to painful erections

Proof there is a 'baby of the family' -- I'm still the baby, 38 years later.

Ancestor of snakes, lizards likely gave birth to live young -- "'Before, researchers long assumed that the ancestor of snakes and lizards laid eggs, and that if a species switched to live birth, it never reverted back. We found this wasn't the case,' said Pyron."

Boys and girls may get different breast milk: New research supports a hypothesis that mammals nourish their young differently depending on wealth and sex

Mormon bishop in homeless disguise teaches lesson -- "At least five people asked David Musselman to leave the church property in Taylorsville, some gave him money and most [purposely ignored him]."

Man charged in series of O.C. homeless slayings dies before trial -- "A man charged last year in a 'serial thrill-kill' rampage in Orange County that left six people dead, including four homeless men and a woman and her son, died Thursday after being found sick in his jail cell."

Robbins police chief fired: He falls after an officer's police credentials — including a Sgt. Joe Friday badge — were found to be fake | Will probe bring justice in town's rape scandal?

Long Island Deli Owners Stole $1M Lottery Ticket: Police say the ticket was worth $1 million but the deli owner gave the man $1,000 in cash and kept the ticket

Acid Rain and Ozone Depletion May Have Triggered Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago

Morning-after pill 'identical to Plan B' is ineffective in women over 176 pounds -- Well, that's good to know.

How Humans Make Up Their Minds: Brain Region Associated with Decisions Discovered -- the lateral habenula

Pornography is not the only culprit behind the rise of labiaplasty -- Labiaplasty. Just think about that for a second.

Official wants to defund library to pay for jail instead; users should 'go back to Mexico' (by way of supergee) -- Consider this screed: "Them junkies and hippies and food stamps [recipients] and all, they use the library to look at drugs and food stamps [on the Internet]. I see them do it." Why in the hell would a person "look at drugs and food stamps"? Looking at them does nothing. Gazing at a digital image of a substance does not get one high. Staring at food stamps (which don't even exist anymore in tangible form) will not make one fed. What in the hell is this guy trying to peddle, besides abject racism & discrimination?

New Dolphin Species Identified Off Australian Coast

Study: California gold rush-era mercury still flowing downstream -- "An estimated 26 million pounds of mercury was used for gold recovery in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath-Trinity Mountains."

Poverty, parenting linked to child brain development

12-Year-Old Finds Razor-Like Blade In Candy After Trick-Or-Treating -- This was supposed to be of urban legend.