Tuesday, March 3, 2009

A new study reports that children who watch television for more than two hours a day have twice the risk of developing asthma. This adds to the already held belief that, for most sane adults, watching any commercial television increases the risk of nausea.

Stamford, Connecticut police say two teenagers who refused to help their father shovel snow from the driveway allegedly attacked him with shovels. Political scientists liken the attack to how Fox News provides its viewers with information.

A 300-million-year-old fossilized fish brain has been discovered by researchers in Kansas. The fossilized brain is very small and very rare. Paleontologists say it is comparable to that of the average Rush Limbaugh program listener.

WTVH, the CBS-TV affiliate in Syracuse, on Monday shut down its entire news department, laying off 40 people. The station will replace unprofitable local newscasts with a new game show: "Who Wants to Be an Ignoramus?"