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The bizarre pom-pom creature is yet to be officially named. An image of the unnamed spaghetti worm from the newly released MBARI video. (Image credit: 2012 MBARI) A bizarre seafloor creature covered with luminous orange, spaghetti-like tentacles recently made its internet debut in newly released video footage. The unusual pom-pom-shaped creature is actually a type of segmented marine worm known as a polychaete, and it belongs to an appropriately named group: spaghetti worms. Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured footage of the pasta-mimicking worm in 2012 using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), while they were exploring...

The politically correct Glamour Magazine has reportedly waived the one defining requirement of candidates for its “Woman of the Year” honor—a double X chromosome—in conferring the title for 2015 on crossdresser Bruce Jenner, a move many women are finding insulting. The magazine is expected to formally announce its choice of Jenner as woman of the year, along with actress Reese Witherspoon, on November 3. Criticisms are already piling up from women who find the choice of Jenner to be demeaning, and are falling into two main camps. First, out of all the real women in the world, could Glamour not...

Conservatives have been asking themselves the question for years: "Is this finally it?" "This" being whatever event in the news exemplified a current gag-making excess of the culture or the polity or the law, and "it" being the point at which the nation as a whole simply won't take it anymore. There have been many points along the way when it seemed as though society might rear up and refuse to go in the current direction. So far, no. The Bill Clinton impeachment wave fell well short of taking out the establishment dam. Al Gore, fortunately, did not win the...

SEOUL - the number one north-Korean Kim Jong it has appeared in public for the first time for two months. But instead of the traditional visit in a military base, it went to see a spectacle of dance, according to the north-Korean news service. Kim attended a spectacle of the company of Beriozka dance. The dancers offered a bouquet to Kim and the witnesses north-Korean entonné a song in the honor of Kim when the curtain rose, specifies the agency. According to South Korean persons in charge's who follow the media north-Korean, Kim had visited a factory at the...

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