A new study says that each year approximately 7,500 children are admitted to U.S. hospitals with gunshot wounds and more than 500 children die during hospital admission from these injuries.

An abstract of the study, titled "United States Gunshot Violence--Disturbing Trends," was presented on Sunday by researchers at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. The study also found that states with higher numbers of firearm ownership had higher proportions of childhood gunshot wounds.

These days, getting a Ph.D. is probably the last thing you want to do if you are out to revolutionize the world. If, however, what you propose is an idea, rather than a technology, it can still be a valuable asset to have. Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained by hybridization between pigs and chimpanzees.

I'm sure.

My meth empire has so far made $2,299,481,352,700 in Clicking Bad!

• Batches cooked: 448,657,399,614
• Batches hand-cooked: 7,755,375,897
• Batches sold: 349,673,554,148
• Batches hand-sold: 18,359,184,064
• Total upgrades purchased: 50
• Total cash earned: 19,103,198,956,478
• Seconds spent playing: 185,779

I'm currently making $1,102,068,750 per second in sales and am producing 28,790,000 'batches' per second. And I have $304,610,013,902 laundered.

I have a Meth Star and Space Mules. But there is still more money to be made and more ways to make it!

Bitches.

But it's becoming a Continent-wide phenomenon. More bikes were sold in than cars — for the first time since World War II.

This prompted us to look at the figures across the 27 member states of the European Union for both and . New-car registrations for Cyprus and Malta weren't available, so we took them out of the comparison.

Here's what we found: Bicycle sales outpaced new-car sales last year in every one of those countries, except Belgium and Luxembourg. The top five countries by bicycle sales can be seen in the top chart.

In this country every man adopts some particular slang-whanger as the standard of his judgment, and reads everything he writes, if he reads nothing else; which is doubtless the reason why the people of this logocracy are so marvellously enlightened.

Washington Irving, being sarcastic, in 1807.

Because, like most people, I don't live in LA or NYC, movies, TV shows and books are never set in places where I've lived. I've never been able to watch a movie and think "Yeah, I know that place." Of course I never knew that was something I was missing, either. But, I just discovered that this guy, James Fenimore Cooper, wrote this book, "The Last Of The Mohicans", in 1825 and it's set in the area north of Albany NY, specifically at Fort William Henry on the south end of Lake George. I grew up in that area, and worked every summer either in Lake George village, or for the ice company that delivered all up and down the lake. Fort William Henry is still there, looking out over the lake, mildly entertaining tourists from NYC and Montreal.

I haven't read the book, but we did watch the 1992 movie adaptation of it last weekend. And I was able to sit there, thinking "Hey, half the streets in the area are named after the six people sitting at that table!" and "I used to ride my bike from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry - takes about an hour!" "That's my place!" Imagine my surprise!

Looking at the scenery in the movie, I also thought "Hey... those mountains, those shrubs, they all look familiar, but something about them is not quite right..." And that's because it was filmed, not in the Adirondacks where the story is set, but in my current home state of NC. So, I'm watching NC scenery ("Hey, they're at Table Rock! We sat right on that boulder!") standing in for upstate NY locations. Two for one!

Yeah yeah, so I'm 21 years late.

Now that I know the story, I'm baffled as to why:

1. Kids in that area aren't taught anything about the French and Indian war
2. Kids in that area aren't required to read that book

We had to read a lot of Dickens, Joyce and Shakespeare, innumerable British poets, Johnny Tremain, The Scarlet Letter, The Good Earth but nothing set in the area. We studied the US revolution, US in the 1800s, the Chinese revolution, US civics, etc., but I don't remember ever hearing about the French and Indian wars. Or maybe I was asleep that month. I did a lot of sleeping in high school.

This does not sound awesome.

A new study published in Journal of the Neurological Sciences has identified a link between Acyclovir - also known as the common cold sore cream Zovirax, (which can additionally be used to treat herpes, chicken pox and shingles) - and Cotard's syndrome, a rare condition causing people to believe they have died, that parts of their body do not exist, or that they have 'lost' their blood and internal organs.

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Examples of the syndrome have included a woman who used acyclovir as a treatment for shingles, then became overwhelmed by a strong feeling that she was dead. Even when symptoms lessened, she was adamant that her left arm did not belong to her. Another sufferer in 1990 believed that he was dead and was in hell, after being taken to a warm South Africa from colder Scotland, in an effort to help him recover.

In an interview with Fox News' "Hannity," [Ann] Coulter went after the "hucksters" and "shysters" who are "ripping off the Republican Party for their own self-aggrandizement, for their own egos, to make money."

Coulter and Hannity, complaining about hucksters ripping off the GOP.

Boggles.

What "conservatives" thought about Medicare when it was passed:

Ronald Reagan: “[I]f you don’t [stop Medicare] and I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.” [1961]

George H.W. Bush: Described Medicare in 1964 as “socialized medicine.” [1964]

Barry Goldwater: “Having given our pensioners their medical care in kind, why not food baskets, why not public housing accommodations, why not vacation resorts, why not a ration of cigarettes for those who smoke and of beer for those who drink.” [1964]

Bob Dole: In 1996, while running for the Presidency, Dole openly bragged that he was one of 12 House members who voted against creating Medicare in 1965. “I was there, fighting the fight, voting against Medicare . . . because we knew it wouldn’t work in 1965.” [1965]

What they thought about Social Security when it was passed:

A Republican congressman from New York, for example, charged: "The lash of the dictator will be felt, and 25 million free American citizens will for the first time submit themselves to a fingerprint test."

Another New York congressman put it this way: "The bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants." A Republican senator from Delaware claimed that Social Security would "end the progress of a great country and bring its people to the level of the average European."

Any of that sound familiar?

Hidden in a dusty trunk in an abandoned and looted Englewood home, the papers of Harvard’s first black graduate, Richard T. Greener, had long been thought lost to history.

So when the Sun-Times reported last year that 52-year-old contractor Rufus McDonald found them while clearing out an attic near 75th and Sangamon, he was praised as a hero who’d unearthed forgotten details of a pioneering African-American intellectual’s life.

Several museums and Harvard University itself expressed a keen interest in the historically significant 140-year-old Greener documents. An excited Gates, who leads Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African-American Research, even said the discovery gave him “gooseflesh.”

But now McDonald says the irreplaceable collection could go up in flames — literally.

McDonald — who recently sold just two of the documents for $52,000 to the University of South Carolina, where Greener also studied and taught — is threatening to torch the rest unless Harvard offers him more cash.

“I’ll roast and burn them,” an angry McDonald said Tuesday, saying Harvard offered an “insulting” $7,500 for a collection that includes Greener’s 1870 Harvard diploma and was appraised at $65,000.

The article does not say how many tea party rallies the man has attended in the past.