Miscellaneous

• Restraining order puts Chapel Hill cell phone ban on hold

  Pierce Egerton | May 04, 2012 11:02 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  The battle in Chapel Hill, N.C., to prevent distracted driving caused by cell phone use has become tangled in a lawsuit over towing cars. Just over five weeks after the North Carolina college...

• Conspiracy Alert: First Lady’s “Get Moving” scheme linked to child pedestrian slaughter

  Pierce Egerton | January 30, 2012 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Few people know this, but Barack Obama was spotted on the grassy knoll in Dallas in 1963. Michelle Obama has interviewed aliens in captivity at Area 51 in Nevada. And they both know where...

• Research into “nature’s glue” may improve unpaved roads

  Pierce Egerton | January 24, 2012 11:04 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  I’m a-blowin’ down this old dusty road, Lord, Lord, And I ain’t a-gonna be treated this a-way. – Woody Guthrie If Mother Nature could sing, she might...

• Randleman roundabouts: The right way to roll?

  Pierce Egerton | January 24, 2012 1:23 AM | 4 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  New intersections draw complaints but advantages are significant Round and round and round you go … But at those circular intersections called “roundabouts,” at...

• Snow Shoveling and Heart Attacks -- Is There Really A Link?

  Pierce Egerton | January 15, 2012 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  We’ve all heard it. Urban legend warns shoveling snow causes heart attacks. In fact, two of the most important cardiology associations in the US include snow shoveling on their...

• Winter Storm Season - A Good Time to Think About Carbon Monoxide Hazards

  Pierce Egerton | January 03, 2012 8:18 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  As we move into the colder winter months, here in North Carolina it's time to think about carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas that is extremely poisonous...

• WTF?!?! Cursing eases pain?

  Pierce Egerton | December 21, 2011 2:19 PM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  I stubbed my toe! Dang! I barked my shin! Darn! I got run over by a bus! Dagg-nabbit! But if I cuss a little, I’ll feel better. So says a study from “The Journal of...

• Beware illegal online knock-offs this holiday season

  Pierce Egerton | December 15, 2011 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  If you’re shopping online for a genuine Louis Vuitton handbag, it’s probably not a good idea to buy it at a website with a name like...

• “Breaking Dawn: Part One” movie reportedly causing seizures

  Pierce Egerton | December 09, 2011 7:24 PM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Apparently, what we had thought were fictional vampires are actually out going to and fro in the world, causing real danger to living people. OK … Not really. But according to some...

• NCSU Researchers Find Some Android Smartphones More Vulnerable to Attacks

  Pierce Egerton | November 30, 2011 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Odds are you have a smartphone. And, since Android has the largest share of the smartphone market in the U.S., that smartphone probably uses Android. If so, you may be particularly...