31 1 / 2012
Meet Landon. His father, Marine LCPL Carpenter, gave his life defending ourcountry in Afghanistan earlier this year, a month before his son was born.
Baby Landon’s Mom wants his story to be known. Take a moment to share this photo with your friends and reflect on the price of freedom.
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30 1 / 2012
North side edition of stuff Chicagoans say. So funny.
“Do you mind if I ask how much your rent is?”
“Ooooh, pretzel bun!”
“Did you see today’s Groupon?”
“There’s always next year…”
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25 1 / 2012
If you missed the president’s State of the Union last night, here’s what we’re internally referring to as “the kick-ass section.” Watch the rest of the speech and get an overview of the key points here.
(via memoryreelinreverse)
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24 1 / 2012
Internet addiction has same effect as cocaine on brains: study
This is your brain on the Internet: Messed up where there should be connections for making decisions and having normal emotions.
Results of a new study suggest people who cannot control, cut back or stop their use of the Internet have abnormal white matter structure in the brain similar to what is seen in cocaine and crystal-meth addicts.
According to the study’s authors, as the number of people logging onto cyberspace soars, “Internet addiction disorder” — which is poised to enter the official lexicon of psychiatric illnesses — “is becoming a serious mental-health issue around the world.”
The disorder, as described in the study published this week in the journal PLoS One, is defined as “problematic” or pathological computer use that can cause “marked distress” and interfere with school, work, family and social relationships.
For their study, led by Hao Lei of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, researchers scanned the brains of 17 teens and young adults, aged 14 to 24, with Internet addiction and 16 healthy “controls” of similar age.
People were classified as suffering from Internet addiction disorder, or IAD, based on a questionnaire that included the following: Do you feel preoccupied with the Internet? Do you stay online longer than originally intended? Do you feel restless, moody, depressed or irritable when attempting to cut down or stop Internet use?
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24 1 / 2012
Today is Michelle Obama’s 48th birthday.
Official White House photos by Pete Souza, Chuck Kennedy and Lawrence Jackson via the White House Flickr account
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24 1 / 2012
Absolutely beautiful photos of Telefonica sailing into Cape Town by Andrew Brauteseth.
Smacking the hull as we land each time. I almost drop my half-finished tweet into the sea. I’m riding this boat like a cowboy. There’s an awesome pause as the wind dies for a second and we pull along Telefonica’s beautiful blue hull. It’s been a 21 day, 6500 nautical mile mission for them from Alicante in Spain. I imagine how they must feel. Relieved. Exhausted. Excited. Awed by our City and Table Mountain. I hope.
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24 1 / 2012
Paula Deen hid her type 2 diabetes diagnosis from the Food Network for 3 years — and made $30 million for her fattening fare in the interim.
While keeping the Food Network and her fans in the dark about her diabetes, Deen continued delivering episodes on deep-fried butter balls and other artery-clogging fare as she raked in an estimated $10 million per year via her TV show, cookbooks, endorsements and appearances.
“I intentionally did it,” Deen admitted to NBC’s Al Roker of hiding the news from fans. “I said, ‘I’m gonna keep this close to my chest for the time being’ because I had to figure out things in my own head.”
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