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Complex Migraine: 5 Facts on the Headache Blamed for Serene Branson Video Gibberish
By Greg Robillard - AOL NewsMaybe it wasn't a stroke after all. The Los Angeles Times reports that Serene Branson's doctor, a neurosurgeon at UCLA, says the television reporter suffered a "complex migraine" that caused her to garble her speech as she delivered a report from the Grammy Awards on Sunday. The medical community had been at pains to explain what happened to the reporter, with some doctors suggesting that Branson might have suffered an on-air stroke. Video of Branson's report went viral in the hours after it ran. Surge Desk dug a little deeper on the phenomenon commonly known as complex migraines and ...
Auburn Tree Poisoning and 5 Other Pranks Born of College Rivalries
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsCollege rivalries are the stuff of legend, but some Southern football fans may have taken things too far with a recent prank. A University of Alabama fan stands accused of poisoning -- yes, poisoning -- 130-year-old trees at Toomer's Corner, a famous intersection where the Auburn University campus meets the town. A man was arrested in connection with the stunt, which first came to the public's attention after someone called into a sports radio show and claimed that he had poisoned the trees because of a long-standing Auburn-Alabama grudge. Soon after, officials confirmed that the trees had ...
Scientists Stumble Upon Possible Breakthrough in Treating Baldness
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsResearchers in California may have made a breakthrough in the treatment of baldness – completely by accident. The researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles and the Veterans Administration were studying the gut functions of mice with alopecia, an affliction where all of an animal's hair falls out, The New York Times reported. They treated the animals with a chemical and returned them to cages with normal, furry mice. When they returned to look at the animals a few months later, they saw something very strange: None of the mice in the cage were bald -- all had a full ...
Omega Psi Phi Shooting and 3 Other Recent Acts of Violence at College Parties
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOn Sunday, one student was killed and 11 were wounded in a shooting at an Omega Psi Phi fraternity house near the Youngstown State University campus. Two suspects are in custody and scheduled for arraignment Tuesday. According to Youngstown, Ohio, police Capt. Rod Foley, the suspects were attending a party at the fraternity house and were asked to leave after a fight broke out. Police say they left and then opened fire into the house. Youngstown State University provides detailed breakdowns of its campus crime statistics. No murders or manslaughters have been reported since 2005, the ...
Lila Rose: 5 Facts on the Woman Behind the Planned Parenthood Hoax [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsWho orchestrated the latest Planned Parenthood hoax, in which people pretending to be sex traffickers sought advice from clinic staff? Her name is Lila Rose, and she's well known on both sides of the abortion debate. Although she's only 22 years old, she's been a high-profile member of anti-abortion circles for at least seven years. Surge Desk has the facts about the young woman who founded Live Action, the group that made the Planned Parenthood video. 1. She thinks abortions "should be performed in public" Rose voiced this opinion at the 2009 Values Voter Summit, where she was an invited ...
UConn Women Victims of Realism, Not Sexism
By David Whitley - AOL NewsHARTFORD, Conn. -- UConn won its 89th game in a row Tuesday night, and I'd like to write about what a fabulous deal it was. I'd like to, but it might ruin Geno Auriemma's image of sports fans in general and the media in particular. He thinks most of us were "pissed" that the Huskies were closing in on UCLA's record of 88 straight wins. And having to cover their quest had turned us into "miserable bastards." I don't presume to speak for everybody, but I wasn't pissed that UConn beat FSU, 93-62, at the XL Center. It was a grand occasion, right down to President Obama calling in his ...
Tainted Razors May Have Been Sent to Researcher
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 24) -- An animal rights group says it sent "bloody, AIDS-tainted razor blades" to a UCLA neuroscientist who's been a frequent target of extremist violence because of his research on monkeys. The University of California at Los Angeles said it's investigating the incident and confirmed that David Jentsch, a UCLA professor of psychology, psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences, received a package at his home earlier this month containing razor blades and threatening notes. There's no way to verify whether the discarded razors were indeed infected with HIV-positive blood, and the group ...
Laughter Is Instinctive, Study Finds
By J. Richard - AOL News
(Nov. 11) -- Is laughter really contagious? Scientists have been studying the question for years, exploring why certain nonspeech sounds seem to spread like wildfire. Now, a new study finds that out of all sounds humans make, only two -- laughing and expressions of relief -- are actually instinctive. The rest we learn from others as we go along. In the study, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, researchers asked eight deaf and eight hearing individuals to sound out different emotions -- including anger, disgust and sadness -- without using ...
The Revised Concussion Rulebook: What It Means for Kids and Contact Sports
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Concussions, no matter how minor the symptoms, need to be a top medical priority for young athletes, their coaches and their parents. That's the bottom line from a top medical advisory board, which Monday issued a rigorous new set of recommendations on the management of concussive injuries. After months of debate over the proper handling of concussions, especially among teenage football players, the American Academy of Neurology has published a position paper on the issue. What's the AAN's key point? That concussions can be lifelong injuries with incredibly serious implications ...
In a Conference With New Ambition, Pac-10 Hopes for a Rebound
By Jon Weinbach - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES – It didn't quite match the pomp, circumstance and celebrity of the conference's cross-country road show for football, but the Pac-10 Conference's media day for men's basketball was yet another example of commissioner Larry Scott's plan to burnish the league's image. Instead of the usual staid event at an airport hotel, the league held its preseason hoops confab at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles, across the street from the Staples Center and in the heart of the L.A. Live complex owned by Anschutz Entertainment Group. It was far more building than necessary for a ...
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