Pin Itemailprint The Hobbs family may think twice before heading out for a nature walk again. A 6-year-old Texas boy, River Hobbs, is recovering after being attacked by a mountain lion while taking a walk with his family at Big Bend National Park. The lion attacked Hobbs on Sunday as the family returned to their [...]
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Remember Kenneth Robinson? We first told you about him here at Blippitt back in July. He’s the Texan who filed some crafty paperwork and managed to “buy” a $340K house for a mere $16. Seems like a pretty genius move, except for the fact that he’s now been kicked out. After paying just $16 to [...]
Can a man live without an actual heart. Yes, he can. Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier, two doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, have successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a mechanical device – proving that it IS possible for your body to be kept alive without a heart, or even a pulse. In [...]
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Rand Paul seems to be having an interesting day as the Kentucky senator was detained by the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tennessee after refusing to undergo full body pat-down. “I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely,” said Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley said. “The image scan went off; he [...]
Don’t look now, but Terrell Owens is back. Of course, he’ll be playing football on a carpet with a roof over his head – but he’s back. T.O. has signed with the Indoor Football League. Owens, 38, one of the most prolific receivers in the history of the NFL, will join the IFL’s Allen Wranglers [...]
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Yesterday, President Barack Obama shot down a Canadian company’s plan to build the 1,700-mile Keystone Pipeline, a project that would carry oil across six states to Texas refineries. Even though the plan would likely create thousands of temporary jobs for the recovering economy, Obama said a February deadline set by Congress wouldn’t allow for a [...]
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So long and thanks for playing our game! Texas Governor Rick Perry is expected to announce his withdrawal from the presidential race today, just two days before the South Carolina. Perry will hold a press conference in North Charleston at 11 a.m. where he will suspend his candidacy, according to report. Perry almost bailed out [...]
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The amazing discoveries from the Kepler mission just keep on coming. Astronomers have now found more real-life versions of Tatooine, Luke Skywalker’s home planet in the “Star Wars” saga. These worlds have twin suns that rise and set each day as opposed to just one. These two new exoplanets are also very close to the [...]
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There’s trouble in Twinkie-land. Hostess Brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today to confront burdensome debt and labor costs, less than three years after completing an earlier restructuring. The baker ended an earlier round of bankruptcy hearings in February 2009 when buyout firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC and lenders took control of Interstate Bakeries Corp., [...]
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There is some new hope on the horizon for depression sufferers. A study published by the University of Texas Southwest’s Medical Center and the Cooper Institute in Dallas has linked low levels of vitamin D to clinical depression. The new study appears in the latest edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. In the study, researchers compared [...]
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Now that’s a whole lot of darkness. Astronomers have compiled a massive map revealing a complex web of so-called “dark matter” and galaxies spanning a distance of one billion light-years. This monumental task wasn’t achieved by observing the dark matter directly, but rather by observing gravitational effects on light traveling from galaxies that existed when [...]
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Snoop Dogg is facing drug charges after border patrol agents searched his tour bus over the weekend along the same stretch of a Texas highway where Willie Nelson was busted in 2010. Dogg (real name: Calvin Broadus) “freely admitted” that three prescription bottles filled with marijuana cigarettes belonged to him, according to a statement from [...]
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