Quoted: France, Japan and Australia rated best and the U.S. worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations.

hmmm...i often wondered.

Quoted: Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.

see...don't swim in lakes. if only people would LISTEN to me!

Quoted: It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

Scary scam.

Quoted: Museum-goers gasped at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she was sacrificed and froze to death in the Andes.

i'm not one of those crazed moms, but this seems legitimate and worthwhile. i know i've already dealt with the results of my girls seeing crap on airplanes that is just plain scary...despite the fact that we didn't purchase the headsets to watch the movie.

Quoted: Does where you live influence what you eat? A new study says ZIP codes are surprisingly accurate predictors of obesity.

my mother-in-law has a house on lake tawakoni...thankfully i've never seen anything like this there.

Quoted: Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

Quoted: Few stories have touched CNN.com users like that of 5-year-old Youssif, an Iraqi boy who had gone out to play on a January day when he was suddenly grabbed by masked men, doused in gas and set on fire.