A survey by the American Legacy Foundation found that 25 percent of American smokers said that worrying about the economy made them smoke more every day.

 
Oh so cute
He’s unnamed, under wraps and, by all accounts, adorable.
And other babies born throughout central Ohio yesterday will get a keepsake of the birthday they share.
Finally, 655 days after conception, Phoebe the elephant’s newest addition popped into the world at 2:35 p.m. yesterday at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

Hey those were my kids buddy
A Vancouver Island farmer is seeing red after thieves stole a container with bull semen.
Shawnigan Lake RCMP say they aren’t certain whether the thief stole the 20-litre liquid tank for the nitrogen, or for the embryos and bull semen inside.

 
You should have been waving around your bling moron
TAMPA – The gun was anything but a prop at a University of South Florida talent show Thursday evening, when a contestant brandished a loaded .357 Magnum at a crowd outside the hall, according to USF police.

Taking the home office to a whole new level
As homeless populations in most major cities around the world increase, now is the time to
begin creating sustainable housing solutions that defy convention. Dutch design group N55, in conjunction with the Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, created just such a solution with the invention of the Walking House.

 
Wow I hope your not scared of needles
When doctors need to perform a coronary bypass, it typically involves cracking open the patient’s chest and stopping all functions of the heart. From Waseda University in Japan comes a robot that could end the need for that second step, at least.

Hotelicopter 
Lately, an abandoned Boeing 747 jumbo jet was transformed into a 25-room hotel in the Stockholm-Arlanda airport and now, we have the Hotelicopter – the world’s first flying hotel made from a huge Soviet-made Mil V-12 helicopter.  (Pics)

 
Duman Oceanarium
It is expected that the proposed enormous oceanarium in Moscow will form part of an amusement complex complete with a cinema, hotel, business center, shopping mall and many restaurants. According to news sources, the Eurasian country of Kazakhstan, which is the world’s largest landlocked country, is financing the construction of one of the new [...]

Close-up view of the exam is shown.
This one is fascinating, though if you’re a little squeamish about human anatomy, this isn’t for you.

Not so good news for crustacean lovers.  According to a research from Queen’s University Belfast researchers, crabs not only feel pain, but also remember it.  Professor Bob Elwood and Mirjam Appel, whose study was published in the journal Animal Behavior,  used electric shocks on hermit crabs to determine their response to unpleasant external stimuli.
Wires were [...]