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Six months ago, spinners were unheard of. The hands of children were oddly empty. Today most middle and high school kids either have an original Fidget360, or have one of the many knock-offs. All parents and teachers know what spinners are, regardless of if they approve. When Allan Maman looked around for something to alleviate his own ADHD, he ran into the concept of a toy that allowed you to unconsciously fidget while still focusing on another task. At the time, nobody was producing fidgets for the marketplace in a readily available way. Maman saw the need and realized he...

Intuition, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, is less about suddenly "knowing" the right answer and more about instinctively understanding what information is unimportant and can thus be discarded. Gigerenzer, author of the book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, says that he is both intuitive and rational. "In my scientific work, I have hunches. I can’t explain always why I think a certain path is the right way, but I need to trust it and go ahead. I also have the ability to check these hunches and find out what they are...

I don’t get it. Where did this affectation begin? Is this some bleedover from the gamer subculture? “wOOt!” “pWnEd!” I know every generation resorts to slang and obscurity to differentiate itself, so is this the new way for people who capitalize every other letter? Some digging has yielded the information that this practice is known as “Studlycaps” or “camel caps” From the Wikipedia: “According to the Jargon File “ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe.” it appears to have been popularized among adolescent users during the BBS and early WWW eras of online culture, as a form of rebellion...

A woman said a squid-like, gooey gunk she found floating in her favorite beverage made her violently ill, and she's on a quest to figure out what it is.Barbara Kline, 34, said she made the horrific discovery on April 25.After opening the beverage and taking a sip, Kline said she noticed something was very wrong. "I swallowed a big clump. It was really nasty and it tasted really thick," she said.She sliced open the Vita Coco coconut water container and found something disturbing inside."The legs, they're legs," Kline explained. "There's definitely something other than mold in there." (Cont'd Below) She...

Considering the fact that our state is nearly 900 miles across, we have plenty of open road to explore. There’s no feeling quite like that of hopping in your car and setting off down a Texas country road. Many highways in our state run through uncharted territory with towering mountains, lush greenery, and flowing rivers. These eight drives are especially breathtaking and definitely belong on your summer bucket list. 1. TX 207 (Canyon) Flickr/sarowen This breathtaking drive takes you through the red rocks of the second largest canyon in the country, Palo Duro. This segment of Highway 207 is FM...