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In this episode we discuss…
The evils of PowerPoint
Lazy students
Old people are an evil cartel
Solution to the nation’s financial crisis
We are great in spite of our democracy
Sniffing the bicycle seats of game show winners
A little rant about Gold’s Gym
A new study has found a way to make their new study newsworthy.
Stress causes heart attacks in some people. A Superbowl loss can cause stress in some people. Therefore, Superbowl losses cause heart attacks.
Where’s our Nobel Prize?
Super Bowl may trigger heart attacks – CNN.com.
This week the CDC and other health agencies concluded that the mass bird deaths are simply a coincidence. Here is a cool Google map that tracks the amazing coincidence.
Mass Animal Deaths – Google Maps.
That’s right, we are recording a new episode of Watercooler All-stars today. This will be our 15th episode and we are excited to post it. If you haven’t heard our previous episodes, check them out below or on iTunes.
We know, you are tired of all of the news coverage about pet reincarnation lately. However, we are sure that there is still one person left in the world who has not read about the topic this week.
Woman Says Pets Can Reincarnate – Atlanta News Story – WGCL Atlanta.
The story if about the rescue of a stranded rafter. Here is a quote from the story.
“Hopper, nicknamed Goat Man for his ability to scale mountainsides, said he started out Wednesday morning on the Sacramento River, where he loaded a $300 inflatable raft with camping supplies, two burritos, a bag of vitamins, a Bible and a mannequin of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
via Coast Guard rescues man on Suisun Bay’s Roe Island.
Leave it to MTV to glamorize teen motherhood. In a sense, it is a cycle.
Girls grow up watching soap operas, girls copy lifestyle from soap operas, girls lives turn into soap operas, networks hire girls to air soap opera to young girls.
16, pregnant … and famous: Teen moms are TV’s new stars – USATODAY.com.
The TSA told NPR that its policies are not inconsistent, they are unpredictable. By not creating a single policy for the TSA to follow, each TSA station creates its own policy which it is told not to follow consistently.
It’s all for your safety.
TSA: Unpredictability Is Part Of Security Process : The Two-Way : NPR.
Rather than create his own tests, this professor uses the tests supplied by the textbook publisher. These tests are available to anyone who acquires a teacher’s edition of the textbook.
In other words, the professor put more work into analyzing how the students cheated than he put into creating the test. Now the faculty is mad that they have to actually create a test from scratch.
Professor exposes student cheating – and his own laziness-y100.com
So, this woman was stuck in a bathroom for three weeks where she survived by drinking tap water. She tried to bang on the pipes to get attention but the tapping just made the neighbors mad enough to launch a petition to fix the noise.
Woman stuck in bathroom for three weeks – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
