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Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s You Flying a Jetpack Is that a fish in your pocket? Man tries to transport fish in his pants Strongest man lifts 975 pounds Bobcat battles dead snake Cracking the ‘Waffle House Index’: How breakfast may determine the severity of this hurricane season How Dungeons & Dragons Gave Birth to the Modern Video Game Industry

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s You Flying a Jetpack  Friday, Aug 30, 2013 11:55 AM PDT When Glenn Martin was a boy, in 1969, he watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Afterward, he imagined a not-too-distant future in which humans had bases on Mars and flew to work with personal jetpacks. Later, in 1981, when he was an undergraduate studying biochemistry in New Zealand, Martin wondered why the future had [...] Full Story	Top
Is that a fish in your pocket? Man tries to transport fish in his pants  Friday, Aug 30, 2013 10:30 AM PDT The wet trousers were a fishy giveaway: A Vietnamese man attempting to smuggle tropical sea life in his pants this week was thwarted when New Zealand airport officials noticed his pockets were leaking water, reports Sky News. Full Story	Top
Strongest man lifts 975 pounds  Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:19 AM PDT Don't try this at home: Video from Norwegian sports enthusiast Per Gunnar Roalkvam out of Sanyu, China, this week captures an eye-popping sight: Strongman Brian Shaw lifting a weight of 442.5 kilos – almost a thousand pounds. Full Story	Top
Bobcat battles dead snake  Friday, Aug 30, 2013 05:53 AM PDT A person on the University of Utah campus captured this video of a bobcat battling a rattlesnake. Except, as the video user points out, the fight appears to be one-sided because the snake is already dead. Full Story	Top
Cracking the ‘Waffle House Index’: How breakfast may determine the severity of this hurricane season  Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:16 AM PDT The Fine Print If disaster strikes this hurricane season, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will use an unconventional system to evaluate damage: the 'Waffle House Index.' FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told "The Fine Print" that he started using Waffle Houses as an informal metric of measuring the severity of a storm in its aftermath. He [...] Full Story	Top
How Dungeons & Dragons Gave Birth to the Modern Video Game Industry  Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:41 AM PDT Video games are an enormous, multibillion-dollar industry, growing like Super Mario on mushrooms. But the business can trace its roots to a simpler time, when a humble game played with pen, paper and a set of funny-looking dice ruled the rec and dorm rooms of geeks, nerds, dreamers and math majors. That game was Dungeons [...] Full Story	Top

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