“He trusts God to keep him safe,” says RP2 Chute. “And I’m here just in case that doesn’t work out.”By Michael M. Phillips (WSJ) SANGIN, Afghanistan — Navy Chap­lain Terry Moran is steeped in the Bible and believes all of it. His assis­tant, Reli­gious Pro­grams Spe­cial­ist 2nd Class Philip Chute, is steeped in the Bible...
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By Eliz­a­beth Weise (USA Today) Last week in a series of morn­ing TV inter­views, Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion Com­mis­sioner Mar­garet Ham­burg told con­sumers that they should reject over-​​easy eggs and avoid “runny egg yolks for mop­ping up with toast.” Carol Tucker-​​Foreman, an assis­tant sec­re­tary of agri­cul­ture under Pres­i­dent Carter who’s worked on food pol­icy at...
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By Jeff Reinitz (Water­loo Cedar Falls Courier) Carl Herold, 62, said he was tired of con­stantly call­ing police to com­plain about the “hip­pie tunes” com­ing from across the street, so Wednes­day he got an air horn. He set up the horn on his deck fac­ing the neighbor’s home. He ran a hose to an air...
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By Cenk Uygur As we can all see now, when Fox says jump, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion asks how high? (Then jumps one inch less and con­sid­ers it a pro­gres­sive vic­tory). Is there any­one Obama won’t fire or throw under the bus if Fox asks him to? What if they ask Obama to fire him­self?...
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(Sci­enceDaily) Vot­ers’ choices are heav­ily influ­enced by super­fi­cial, non­ver­bal cues, such as politi­cians’ appear­ance, accord­ing to Christo­pher Olivola from Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Lon­don in the UK and Alexan­der Todorov from Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity in the US. Accord­ing to their find­ings, vot­ers make judg­ments about politi­cians’ com­pe­tence based on their facial appear­ance and these appearance-​​based com­pe­tence judg­ments...
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By Wal­ter Brasch (Spec­trum) America’s Num­ber 1 ally is upset that Amer­i­cans are blam­ing BP for that nasty lit­tle oil spill in the Gulf. You know, the one where as much as a 1.7 mil­lion gal­lons of crude oil a day has given us new species of no-​​flight pel­i­cans and black-​​skinned dolphins. The Brits’...
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A woman in a hot air bal­loon real­ized she was lost. She low­ered her alti­tude and spot­ted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, ‘Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.’ The man con­sulted his...
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Tox­o­plasma gondii is not an alien; it is a rel­a­tive of that down-​​to-​​earth pathogen Plas­mod­ium, the beast that causes malaria. It is com­mon: in some parts of the world as much as 60% of the pop­u­la­tion is infected with it. A country’s level of Tox­o­plasma infec­tion seems to be related to the level of neu­roti­cism...
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(Sci­enceDaily) Although caf­feine is the most widely con­sumed psy­choac­tive drug world­wide, its poten­tial ben­e­fi­cial effect for main­te­nance of proper brain func­tion­ing has only recently begun to be ade­quately appre­ci­ated. Sub­stan­tial evi­dence from epi­demi­o­log­i­cal stud­ies and fun­da­men­tal research in ani­mal mod­els sug­gests that caf­feine may be pro­tec­tive against the cog­ni­tive decline seen in demen­tia and...
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Had Lora Hunt been eat­ing a sand­wich or dial­ing her cell phone instead of pol­ish­ing her nails when she struck and killed a motor­cy­clist, she would not now stand con­victed of reck­less homi­cide, her lawyer contends. But pros­e­cu­tor Mike Mer­mel said there’s a big dif­fer­ence between pol­ish­ing nails and other forms of dis­tracted dri­ving....
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