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Once upon a time I needed surgery. A very difficult surgery. A one slip of the scalpel and hasta la vista, baby! So, how do I pick a surgeon...

Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming pe...

Well, Pooch Doggy Dog fans! After an extensive snoot lift, and tummy tuck and genital augmentation (not visible in picture)...  The NEW M...

According to a report from ABC News, President Obama is not taking kindly to corporate greed, especially when it's funded by taxpayer mo...

1919. "Young Women's Christian Association. Scenes at YWCA camp." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Con...

Some recent developments on the Republican side give me hope they might not be simple reactionaries. Poocher Rush Limbaugh is taking heat f...

Dick Van Dyke thought Walt Disney wanted to see him about "Mary Poppins" because of his singing and dancing skills. But the legend...

For years after his NFL career ended, Ted Johnson could barely muster the energy to leave his house. "I'd [leave to] go see my kids...

Say you're in charge of security at an air base. Suddenly, you look up, and there are dozens of would-assailants are coming down, on par...

Last month, a small robotic plane flew into the skies over New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range. Tracking the drone was an experiment...

Israel already uses spy drones, automated sentry towers, and slew of sophisticated sensors, to keep watch over its borders. The latest addit...

Last week, the Army conducted a full test of the Mid-Range Munition, a "smart" 120-mm cannon round. It's part of a push to giv...

(In picture... Sunspider, short bars good; Google, tall bars good.) A release candidate of Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer...

Pooch Dog received very poor quality joke from daughter this morning. His majesty chastised daughter, showing her better form with a few jo...

The U.S. military has tried everything to stop roadside bombs, from radio frequency jammers to hulking trucks to blimps to lightning guns. N...

A man walks into a thrift store...   It sounds like the opening line to a bad joke. And this case was a bad joke -- for the Pentagon. Chris ...

Are you using software to find and read blogs? A news/blog aggregator. Then, you are simply a simpleton! A lowlands maggot. I use Google...

One of my relatives, here...  Pooch Doggy

"Interior Department, Bureau of Mines." Another circa 1920 view of research activities at the bureau's Washington offices. Har...

1924. "Bureau of Standards. New and improved measuring board for U.S. Children's Bureau." Harris & Ewing Collection glass ...

"Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916." One of the banners used in a memorial service for Inez Milholland, the lawyer who ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe is the bust of a Roman boxer from the second or third century. "It seems tha...

When Suzanne Babb, a 34-year-old professional organizer from Gilbert, Arizona, is having a bad hair day, she does what many women do. She ca...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Even before one reaches the front door of Canon's headquarters in Tokyo, one can sense the virtual stampede of emp...

It's a joke, although maybe a bad one... "White people can't tell black people apart." But, is it true? Unfortunately, f...

Pooch Dog was raised in Missouri and saw geese flying overhead in the fall. But, when winter arrived, the geese were nowhere around. This ...

In what may be a modern-day snapshot of humanity's technological infancy, researchers have observed wild capuchin monkeys carefully sele...

Pretty darn cool old mining pictures from early 1900s, and some misccellaneous old time pictures at the end of this Powerpoint presentation....

Another plug for the Shorpy.com website here. It is just the single most fabulous collection of high resolution old timey fabulificent phot...

On the graph, the red line represents hits on porn sites, and the blue line represents visits to social networking sites.  In September, 200...

Do you know more than your countrymen because you have a Master's Degree in Science? Are you ridiculed because you see the world as no ...

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