I finally have a weekend where I can go crazy. My wife is out of town visiting friends in Kansas City. Imagine all of the trouble I can get in. Of course, I probably won’t even leave the house. I’d love to sleep late, but that probably won’t happen. I’ll catch up on some work,…
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When the NFL’s Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee in the late 1990s, one of their demands was a first-class stadium. They’d been playing in the famed Astrodome, which wasn’t good enough. They even wrote a clause into their contract to ensure their stadium was always among the best. It took less than 25 years for…
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In recent years, many universities have started struggling. Enrollment is down, and the cost of going to school is increasing every year. Some are questioning whether higher education is worth the costs. College mergers are a possibility. While they’re not happening yet, here in the U.S., some countries are taking drastic measures…
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Many people have a problem falling asleep, so they turn to sleeping pills to help them drift off to dream. Some people question whether using them could be causing you harm. Well, it looks like researchers have found out that the pills might assist in reducing the chance of Alzheimer’s Disease. The initial study is…
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In grade school, we learned that Isaac Newton was the man who discovered gravity. We can also blame him for being one of the men who developed the study of calculus. But did you know that he predicted the world would end in 2060? Other than hearing the story about the apple falling on his…
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In recent years, mass shootings have become a regular occurrence in the US. But many people never thought that knocking on the wrong door or pulling into the wrong driveway could be a fatal mistake. But that’s what’s happening right now. In the last week or two, people across America have been severely injured or…
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Back in the day, if you watched any television, it was hard to avoid Ronald McDonald and his McDonaldland friends. Every time you turned the channel, you’d see Mayor McCheese, Grimace, and the Hamburglar. But most of them disappeared years ago. You might see them on a Happy Meal box or in the Play Place,…
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Our world is all about labels. We want to assign everything to categories. When discussing age, others typecast us by the group they associate us with. We all know the terminology; baby boomers, millennials, and gen x are often a topic of discussion. Get ready for the next group to make news, generation alpha…
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Perhaps it’s my imagination, but I’ve noticed that we’ve been dealing with more bugs every year. I’m not worried about ants, wasps, bees, or hornets; you expect those. But for some reason, we’re seeing more gnats, June bugs, and stink bugs here in Tennessee. In just the last couple of weeks, we’ve had to trap…
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Recently I’ve started seeing articles online telling us we should never use a public cell phone charging station. You often see them in airports, train stations, hotels, and malls. While they haven’t alerted us to extreme breaches, authorities warn us to beware of juice jacking. Whenever we try to charge our phone using a USB…
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