Jeremy Taylor
North Korea Woman’s Soccer Coach Blames Lightning For World Cup Loss To U.S.
Among other things, North Korea is a strange place when it comes to sports. Its leader, Kim Jong Il, once claimed he shot the best round of golf in recorded history, and after North Korea men’s soccer team had an unsuccessful run in the 2010 World Cup they were forced to stand on a stage where they were berated by 400 government officials.
Perhaps it is in this context that we can best understand
Are Violent Video Games Contributing To the Declining Crime Rate?
A new academic paper suggests that the proliferation of violent videos games over the past 20 years has contributed to the more than 50 percent decrease in violent crime over that time period.
The paper’s authors analyzed published studies on the topic of violence and video games, and were able to conclude that “though there is evidence that violent video games cause aggression in a laboratory se
Oops! TV News Reporter Caught Smoking While Covering Fire [VIDEO]
TV reporter Brad Woodward picked about the worst time possible to be caught taking a smoke break.
The five-year veteran of KHOU news in Houston was happily puffing away when the anchors cut to his coverage of an oil fire.
Swedish Preschool Does Away With Boys and Girls
The “Egalia” preschool in Stockholm, Sweden is taking that nation’s goal of breaking down gender roles in early education to the extreme.
Not only are boys encouraged to play with toy kitchens, and girls with building blocks, but the pronouns “him” and “her’ (or “han” and “hon” in Swedish) are banned from usage. Instead, everyone is refereed to with the invented pronoun of “hen.”
One-Armed War Vet Wows Crowd by Catching Foul Ball [VIDEO]
“I thought I was going to catch the ball or go over the railing,” said Michael Kacer of the foul ball he caught at Yankee Stadium Friday.
The 29-year old vet had lost his left arm in Afghanistan, so he had nothing to brace himself with when he used his baseball cap as a glove and reached over the railing to snag a ball off of the bat of Curtis Granderson.
Parents Would Rather Have a Boy Than a Girl: Poll
A recent Gallup poll of 1,020 adults shows that, if Americans could only have one child, they’d rather have a boy than a girl
According to the poll, published Thursday, 40 percent said they’d want to have a boy, while 28 percent said they’d rather have a girl instead.
Ron Artest Is Changing His Name to ‘Metta World Peace’
Ron Artest really wants the world to know that he is now a lover, not a fighter.
The always interesting and formerly pugnacious Lakers forward has filed papers to change his name to “Metta World Peace,” citing “personal reasons.”
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Can Living in a City Make You Crazy?
While it has been long assumed that the more time you spend in a rural setting the better your mental health, a new study has shed light on why this is.
A team of scientists based in Germany scanned the brains of 32 volunteers from rural and urban areas while they tried to complete puzzles with time limits.
Congress Pondering Bill That Could Make Marijuana Legal
Marijuana legalization has two pretty high-profile friends in Congress.
Republican Ron Paul of Texas and Democrat Barney Frank of Massachusetts are co-sponsoring a bill that would put an end to the federal criminalization of marijuana.
New Graphic Warning Labels To Cover Half of Cigarette Packs
Smokers are going to need a strong stomach if they want to continue their habit.
That’s because starting in September of 2012 new FDA requirements will mandate that half of the area on every pack of cigarettes be covered by a graphic anti-smoking warning label.
Man Arrested After Performing Drunk, Naked Surgery on His Dog
While there’s never really a good time to perform surgery on one’s pet, it’s safe to say the worst time you can possibly make this poor decision is after a long night of drinking.
Meet Stewart Gibbs, who got really drunk and then tried to use a kitchen knife to remove a cyst behind his Doberman’s ear.
Wild West Shootout Re-Enactment Hospitalizes Three Spectators
Tourists watching the Old West show in Hill City, South Dakota last Friday got a real taste of the mayhem associated with that time period when live ammo began spraying into the crowd.
Investigators aren’t sure if real bullets somehow got into the actor’s guns, or if it was shrapnel from blanks that wounded three spectators seriously enough to be taken to the hospital in ambulances.
Arrested Man Claims He Drank 48 Beers During Birthday Celebration
For his 58th birthday, Florida resident James Taylor (no relation to the singer) drank 48 beers.
Or at least that’s what he told the cops when they arrested him last week for causing a disturbance at Florida’s Hudson Beach.
Man Kicked Off Plane For Cursing
Robert Sayegh wanted to know why it was taking so long for his Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight from Detroit to Newark to get off the runway.
So he made a general inquiry as to the plane’s grounded nature that admittedly contained R-rated language.
Wife’s Sleeping Habits Will Affect Marriage – But Husband’s Won’t: Study
When the lady of the house gets a poor night’s sleep, her marriage suffers. However, the same does not hold true if it’s the fellow who spends his night counting sheep in frustration.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh observed 35 healthy married couples’ sleeping habits over a 10-day period. With the help of a device called an actigraph, they were able to chart how well they slept, a
Restaurant Chain Goes Bankrupt, Expels Diners Mid-Meal [VIDEO]
When Marie Callender’s declared bankruptcy this week, they weren’t kidding around.
The chain shut the doors on 64 of its 600 restaurants around the country, and shut them with such haste that anybody who happened to be enjoying one of its signature homestyle meals in one of the doomed locations was told to put down their fork and exit the premises.