End Of The World? Science Artist Ron Miller Envisions Apocalypse Scenarios

How will the world end? We dodged the 2012 doomsday predicted by the Mayan calendar, but scientists have provided several possible scenarios for the world's demise. Hollywood has its own set of ideas, from zombies to giant earthquakes to alien invasions.According to Ron Miller, former art director for the Albert Einstein Planetarium at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C., it's not just earth's destruction we have to worry...

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Russian Teens Allegedly Decapitate Homeless Man, Play Soccer With His Head

A pair of Moscow teenagers were detained by police this week for allegedly decapitating a homeless man with a saw and ax, reports say.Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported Monday that the two teens had been intoxicated when they attacked the homeless man. One of the teens allegedly cut the man's head off, then scalping it and kicking it around like a soccer ball with his companion.The newspaper writes that the teenagers kicked...

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Meet Supermarket Worker Who Ate Party-sized Birthday Cake Everyday For A Year

Supermarket worker Adam Williams needed therapy to kick his addiction to eating a whole party-sized birthday cake every day for a year.The Asda employee revealed he had hypnosis to rid himself of the bizarre habit which left him with excruciating ­headaches – and four stone ­overweight.Adam, 29, would buy the giant sponges – intended to feed 40 people – after they were reduced at the end of his shift.He said: “The cakes just became part of my routine....

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Bizarre Addictions: Teenager 'Addicted To Drinking Petrol'

Shannon 'drinks up to 12 teaspoons of the fuel every day and has swallowed more than five gallons in the last year alone'This pretty teen has swapped swigging fizzy drinks for swigging petrol from a can.The youngster, identified only as Shannon, has developed a bizarre addiction for drinking gasoline. Her addiction is the subject of a new TLC documentary called My Strange Addiction.The programme claims Shannon drinks up to 12 teaspoons of the...

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Man Faces 13-Year Jail Term For Chalk Drawing On Wall During Protest

A protester is standing trial on criminal vandalism charges in San Diego, and faces a sentence of up to 13 years in prison if convicted, for a scribbling a series of anti-bank slogans in chalk on a city sidewalk.Mayor Bob Filner has denounced the prosecution of Jeff Olson, 40, a man with no previous criminal record, as a waste of taxpayer money and an abuse of power that infringes on First Amendment free speech protections in the U.S. Constitution."This...

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Georgia Man Paralyzed After Saving Drowning Girl, Dies Later

A Georgia dad who was paralyzed after saving a drowning girl passed away on Friday.While hanging out at a lake in Rockmart, Ga., with his son on June 8, Mike Patterson noticed a 4-year-old struggling to stay afloat and dove in to help. The heroic dad's spinal cord was severed in the process and he died on Friday, with his family by his side, after suffering from a number of medical complications, according to a statement released by his...

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911 Dispatcher Helped Dad Deliver Baby Roadside

A woman who didn't expect to give birth until mid-July delivered a healthy baby girl along a Michigan roadway with help from her husband and coaching from a 911 dispatcher.Nicole Culwell, of Howell, was heading to St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital on Monday with her husband, Matthew, when she realized she wouldn't make it in time. So her husband pulled over along U.S. 23 in the Ann Arbor area, and Susannah was born, AnnArbor.com reported."He was...

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Police Officer With Photographic Memory, Can Identify Pretty Much Anyone

A Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) with an insane photographic memory is being honored for identifying nearly 250 suspects between 2008 and 2012.Andy Pope, 34, from England, was given a "Putting the Public First Award" last week for recognizing a suspect in August 2012 -- an entire year after being shown the man's image, the Daily Mail reported.The "Memory Man," as he's come to be known was able to memorize wanted...

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Scientists Say Cutlery Shape, Weight And Colour ‘Can Influence Food Taste’

Food flavour can be affected by the colour, weight and shape of cutlery, according to scientists.Volunteers rated white yoghurt as sweeter and more expensive than pink yoghurt when eaten from a white spoon.The effect was reversed for yoghurt tasted from a black spoon. In this case, the pink variety was preferred.A blue spoon also made pink yoghurt taste significantly saltier than white yoghurt, the researchers found. Yoghurt also tasted richer from...

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Woman Accidentally Uses Super Glue Instead of Lip Gloss

A New Zealand woman was left speechless by making a simple mistake while sifting through her medicine cabinet.A 64-year-old woman made the unfortunate mistake of thinking a container of super glue was medicated cream. Wiithin minutes she couldn't open her mouth, the Otago Daily Times reports.The patient, who sought anonymity from the media, was fumbling in the dark for a balm to apply to a cold sore late Thursday night, the Telegraph...

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Beijing Woman’s Chest Implant Bursts After Lying On Her Stomach Playing A Game On Her Cell Phone

A Beijing woman’s chest implant burst after she spent four hours lying on her stomach playing a game on her cell phone.The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment. Doctors say poor quality of the material used in the implants, combined with excessive pressure, caused them to rupture.A study by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery says China ranks 3rd in the world for plastic surgery; 1.05 million went under the knife...

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The World’s Most Expensive Car Wash Costs a Staggering $150,000

Some people prefer to wash their cars with a hose in order to save a few bucks, but for car owners with money to burn The Ultimate Shine, a car cleaning company based in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, is offering the ultimate car cleaning experience for the unbelievable price of £100,000 ($150,000).You’re probably thinking “this can’t be true”, right? That’s more than a brand new luxury vehicle! But apparently, for many of the world’s rich and famous,...

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Man Pleads Guilty To Having Sex With Couch

More cushion for the pushin'!A Wisconsin man who was caught last year having sex with a couch pleaded guilty to public lewdness Monday.Gerard Streator, 47, was sentenced to five months in jail for the furniture fornication, according to documents obtained by The Smoking Gun.He is also barred from possessing "pornography of any kind" and must pay $243 in court costs.Streator was arrested in September 2012, when an off-duty police officer...

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Two-headed Turtle Hatches At San Antonio Zoo

A two-headed turtle has hatched at the San Antonio Zoo and officials have named her Thelma and Louise.The female Texas cooter arrived June 18 and will go on display Thursday at the zoo's Friedrich Aquarium.Zoo spokeswoman Debbie Rios-Vanskike (van SKYKE') said Wednesday that the two-headed turtle appears healthy and is able to swim and walk. She says experts at the zoo don't foresee any health issues for Thelma and Louise, named for the female duo...

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Future Of Health Is Here: You Can Now Swallow Computers In Pill Form

It’s official, we are living in a bizarre Jetson’s future age. Doctors and scientists have worked together to create an ingestible computer, that basically puts Google Glass to shame. The pill-form objects contain tiny sensors that help monitor the health of your body. The pills can collect data on how your systems are running, and transmit that information back to an external computer.Several companies are currently working on pill prototypes. Just...

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Dutch Woman Kept Her Dead Mother In Freezer For A Week Because She Can't Do Without Her

A Dutch woman kept her dead 83-year-old mother in the freezer for a week because she couldn't bring herself to say goodbye, police said on Wednesday."The woman froze her mother's body and kept it for a week," police spokeswoman Esther Boot told AFP."She couldn't say goodbye," Boot said.A family friend contacted police on Monday, saying they could "no longer live" with the secret of the body in the freezer. Police went to the house in Kamperland,...

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Couple Arrested For Public Sex By 25 Bike Cops

We're not yanking your chain with this story: Two people who were allegedly "getting lucky" in a public park ended up getting arrested by 25 cops on bicycles.Jennifer Harvey, 41, and Richard McBride, 37, were arrested Tuesday afternoon after officers -- 25 of them, all on bikes -- say they saw them having sex on a bench near a baseball field at Naylors Run Park in Upper Darby, Pa."There they are, on the first base line. There's a bench,...

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See Coat Is Made Entirely from Male Chest Hair

English designers spent 200 hours weaving over one million strands of male chest hair to create this fashionable fur coat. The aptly named Man-Fur Coat is 100% real and it can be yours for the modest price of £2,499 ($3900).We’ve featured some pretty strange clothing accessories in the past, but a coat made from men’s chest hair? That’s a first, even for us. Stranger still is the fact that it was commissioned by an English dairy company...

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VIDEO: Lukla Airport In Nepal Is The World’s Scariest Airport, A Real Heart-Stopper

As if being situated at 10,000 feet above sea level, in the Himalayas, didn’t make it hard enough for pilots trying to land on or take off from Tenzing-Hillary Airport, in Lukla, Nepal, the short and  narrow runway ends at the edge of a precipice, making it one of the most dangerous airports in the world, and definitely the scariest.Lukla is the gateway to the Himalayas, so despite its reputation as one of the world’s most dangerous airports,...

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Texas Democrat Speaks For 13 Hours Straight To Kill An Anti-Abortion Bill

A Democratic state senator in Texas plans to speak for 13 straight hours without a bathroom break on Tuesday in order to kill a bill that would dramatically reduce access to abortion in the state.Despite a citizen's filibuster that lasted until 3:45 a.m. on Friday, the state House of Representatives passed a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in Texas, severely limits access to medication-induced abortions and regulates...

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Suspect Spends 7 hours In Ocean While Running From Police

A California suspect is being treated for hypothermia following a standoff with police that saw the man spend hours in the ocean.Cmdr. Jesus Ochoa of the Coronado Police Department said the man, whose name was not released, fled from officers who attempted to arrest him on a felony warrant for narcotics violations around 9:50 p.m. Sunday near the Hotel Del Coronado and he ran a short ways into the ocean, KFBM-TV, San Diego, reported Monday.The man, who is in his 40s, was shirtless and remained in the water for seven hours while police waited for...

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PHOTO: Baby Found Floating Inside Well In Lagos

This was sent in by a reader yesterday..."Please we saw this cute fair hairy baby boy, swollen and floating inside well, in my street at lagos, Isachi.Gush some girls are so heartless. I have been crying, my husband opened the well last night then I saw it,Police men came to fetch out the baby this afternoon and I saw the baby this afternoon, just two houses after mine.The mother’s blood and placenta is on the street .The worst part of it, she dropped...

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