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The Stars Who Inspire Olympians

Behind every great Olympic athlete is a celebrity obsession.

Latest comment by Anonymous: Just goes to show that even Olympians listen to some crack-azz music, lol.
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Milennials Read Web Comments Like the Bible

Apparently whining on message boards and blogs does work. A recent study shows that today’s self-proclaimed liberal young people believe the information provided by the comment sections on websites to be more trustworthy than the information provided by corporate pigs in

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Save Pandora Before It's Too Late!

Say it ain’t so! Pandora Radio is struggling to make ends meet due to the increasingly expensive Internet royalties it must pay as a Web radio service. Although Pandora receives one million users a day and ranks as one of the ten most popular iPhone applications, its founders have d

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ProfessoRage: an Occupational Hazard

Some professors bring the Nutty Professor to a whole new level.

UC Rejects Those Who Reject Evolution

Thanks to a federal judge's ruling, University of California officials are now free to tell applicants from creationism-teaching high schools: "We asked for science credit, not theology."

Latest comment by Anonymous: Both creationists and evolutionists contradict themselves and neither point has been proven anyway. I don't know why EITHER persist. The ruling was unneccessary and way off base.
Gardasil: One More Or Less

Gardasil has been rampant among young women wanting to protect themselves against STDs. The television commercials chanting “one less, one less” have already been embedded into everyone’s brains causing women to line up at their doctors’ doors to receive the vaccine. The commercials have a

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End of the Summer?

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Southern California students charge the steps for their last frew days of summer beach fun. (Thousand Steps, CA)

There's a bit of a divide here in California between semester and quarter system schools. With half of our friends preparing to already make the inevitable return to education and all it may entail, the rest of us are left with another month of summer she
The Top Ten Party Schools: Different Takes

When it comes to evaluating parties, who is the better judge -- Playboy, a magazine notorious for its own parties, or the Princeton Review, an academic publication? Definitely a no-brainer.

Latest comment by Anonymous: OU gets dangerous at Halloween. I had a couple buddies almost die there a few years back. But in their defense there isn't much more to do in Athens than drink! I'm perfectly fine at OSU. We have a more consistent party ... MORE »
Study Shows Higher THC Levels in Pot

Stronger marijuana can only mean one thing: more bang for your buck! Oh, and there might be some bad side effects too.

Latest comment by Anonymous: This is so stupid. The commenter above is 100% correct. It is true, pot has gotten better and stronger as better growing techniques and strains are produced. As A legal California Medicina... MORE »

Goleta Fires

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Smoke from the Goleta fires filled the Isla Vista skies all 4th of July Weekend (Isla Vista, CA)

Raining ash, brown skies, and power outages galore, the Goleta fires gave the UCSB area quite the whooping this weekend. Evacuations came close to IV, but in the end we were safe.
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