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Gun Shy: What happened to the Second Amendment at the U.S. Supreme Court this year?

ABA: Lawyers can scour jurors' social media sites -- Yet another reason I won't be migrating to Facebook. It's bad enough (actually probably worse) that employers can demand your social media account particulars.

Christian radio host in Michigan busted in child sex probe, feds say -- "[Balyo] was cuffed while working at a Christian music festival in Gaylord on Friday." It's all about the cover story.

Time-traveling photons connect general relativity to quantum mechanics

Death to high school English: My college students don't understand commas, far less how to write an essay. Is it time to rethink how we teach? -- This article is so true. I read essays written by schoolchildren for a living. The general level of grammatical readiness is atrocious.

Artistic food deemed tastier, scientists and chef show -- "Participants were also willing to pay more for the Kandinsky-inspired plating[.]"

Brain's '15-second delay' shields us from hallucinogenic experience: research -- "To save us from insanity induced by a constantly changing torrent of pictures, shapes and colors--both virtual and real world--the brain filters out information, failing in most cases to notice small changes in a 15-second period of time."

Large Hadron Collider discovers a new type of matter: Exotic hadrons -- tetraquarks

Central Ohio mumps outbreak now has 199 cases; 126 linked to Ohio State University

Bee fossils provide insight into Ice Age environment

Royal baby: The American mistake -- "The United States of America is often referred to as "America" by British people, but consult the Oxford English Dictionary and you'll see that America is a desire, a place you yearn for."

Dolphins 'call each other by name'

Strange Particles Shape-Shift From One Flavor to Another

Humbling Views of Earth from Distant Spacecraft -- I'm actually impressed at how large our satellite appears from Mercury. Sad that the Moon & Earth will eventually separate.

The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements

Country life riskier than city living, U.S. study shows: Although homicides in cities still outpace those in rural areas a new study found that the risk of dying from some form of accident or injury is 20 percent greater in the most rural counties