Rob Carr/Getty Images Le’veon Bell suffers a scary moment when his helmet flies after taking a hit at the goal line. RAVENS 22, STEELERS 20 BALTIMORE (AP) — A game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens usually features hard hits, flying helmets and a pivotal play in the final minutes. The clash between these AFC North rivals on Thursday ...
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IBM tackles MRSA and other healthcare infections with RFID-enforced hand washing tech
It’s crazy, but one of the most dangerous things you can do is visit the hospital. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that nearly two million hospital patients contract a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) every year, and 90,000 of those HAIs result in death. These infections — superbugs such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C. diff) — ...
Read More »Peaches Geldof names mothers of alleged baby rape victims
Neil P. Mockford/FilmMagic Peaches Geldof has more than 160,000 Twitter followers. She has deleted the revealing tweets, but reportedly still thinks that ‘Woman A’ and ‘Woman B’ should be named. Peaches Geldof is in hot water after tweeting out the names of two mothers who allegedly offered up their babies to accused rapist and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins. The ...
Read More »Man born with his heart in his abdomen
HAP/Quirky China News/Rex/REX USA Ho Zhiliang was born with a rare heart condition and he hopes doctors in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, will operate on him to move the organ into his rib cage. A Chinese man is hoping doctors will put his heart in the right place. Ho Zhiliang, 24, was born with what is being called congenital cardiac ...
Read More »Brandi Glanville: I ‘tried to be’ a lesbian
Robin Marchant/Getty Images A flirty moment between Brandi Glanville and co-star Carlton Gebbia in Monday’s ‘Real Housewives’ episode resulted in the reality stars clarifying that they aren’t lesbians. Brandi Glanville will apparently try anything at least once — including romancing women. During Monday night’s “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” episode, Glanville, 41, reportedly gets a bit flirty with co-star Carlton Gebbia, but ...
Read More »More retailers open doors on Thanksgiving
John Konstantaras/AP Images for Kmart In Chicago, Luis Torres and his daughter Stephanie search for more deals after picking up a 50 inch television during the doorbuster sales at Kmart Thursday morning after the store opened at 6 a.m. Macy’s Inc and a slew of other U.S. retailers opened on Thanksgiving for the first time ever in a bare-knuckled brawl ...
Read More »Giant Louis Vuitton suitcase booted from Red Square
TATYANA MAKEYEVA/REUTERS People walk past a Louis Vuitton pavilion shaped like a giant suitcase in central Moscow. Matthias Rust shocked the Soviet Union when the young German landed a small plane on Red Square in 1987. This week, a giant symbol of mammon appeared in Russia’s most venerated public place and traditionalists were not amused. President Vladimir Putin‘s government found ...
Read More »Myers: Super road starts now! Ten questions to ask entering final stretch of season
Jim Rogash/Getty Images Peyton Manning and the Broncos have a key matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend which could determine who wins the AFC West. Forget about the Subway Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium on Feb. 2 — that’s just not going to happen. The best we received from the Giants and Jets this year was the prestigious ...
Read More »The digital lollipop: Simulating sweetness, for dietary, gaming, and health greatness
Over the last few decades, we’ve slowly gained the ability to digitally affect the human senses. First, of course, there was smell-o-vision, which releases a combination of chemicals to simulate a specific scent (smoke, chocolate, oranges, etc.) With electrical stimulation of our nerves, we can simulate the sensation of touch. In the last few years, we’ve seen retinal implants that ...
Read More »Puppy love: Dangerous dog is tamed after falling in love – with a goose
Rex the German Shepherd and Geraldine the goose have become firm friends [SWNS] Rex the German Shepherd was so vicious it would take two people to feed him – one to distract him and the other to throw a bowl of food into his enclosure. He would bark and growl at anything that passed and would even try to poke ...
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