Author: Capital O

  • Global Debate Over Wisdom Teeth Removal Arises in Dental Community

    Global Debate Over Wisdom Teeth Removal Arises in Dental Community

    New evidence is suggesting that wisdom teeth are removed more often than they should be, while opponents of the study claim that it’s all just a money grab from the organizations that funded it. According to Discovery News, a recent study by the British Dental Journal suggests that wisdom teeth that remain asymptomatic should be…

  • NC Family Returns From Vacation to Find SUV Full of Biting Ants

    NC Family Returns From Vacation to Find SUV Full of Biting Ants

    After returning from a 10 day vacation, the last thing you’d think of needing is pest control. But this family was unpleasantly surprised when they came back to find their car had been infested with ants while parked at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. “One of my twins started telling me there…

  • Bike Sales Rise As Bike Store Popularity Falls

    Bike Sales Rise As Bike Store Popularity Falls

    According to a recent story from the Las Vegas Review Journal, bicycle shops are continuing to survive, despite steep competition from online retailers. In 2013, U.S. stores sold nearly two billion bicycles, despite backlash from some customers about the traditional method of retail. When Ted Jewell, co-owner of bicycle shop Southwest Bikes, had a customer…

  • EU Officials Give France $5M To Set Up a Permanent Migrant Camp in Calais

    EU Officials Give France $5M To Set Up a Permanent Migrant Camp in Calais

    In the wake of mass migration into European countries, the European Union (EU) has announced that it will provide €5 million ($5.6 million) in additional funding to France for the construction of a new migrant camp. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced on Monday, August 31 that the EU would be providing the money to…

  • Rogue Wikipedia Editors Blackmail Small Businesses

    Rogue Wikipedia Editors Blackmail Small Businesses

    Blogs have become so much more than online rants. A study from ContentPLUS found that blogs are 63% more likely to influence the purchasing decisions of consumers than magazines are, while HubSpot discovered that companies that blog also get 55% more traffic, and have 434% more pages indexed in search engines. This means that bloggers can increase…

  • Bolt Cutters Used to Release Man From Stuck Titanium Ring

    Bolt Cutters Used to Release Man From Stuck Titanium Ring

    Emergency rooms see a fair number of medical catastrophes each day; in fact, across America there are approximately 110 million annual emergency room visits. Doctors have to deal with deadly viruses, injuries, and other severe medical conditions on a day-to-day basis. But doctors at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital in the U.K. were forced to deal with…

  • Melting Arctic Ice Opens New Sea Routes

    Melting Arctic Ice Opens New Sea Routes

    What once were impassable ocean routes are now open thruways. The some 55,000 ships in the world’s cargo carrying fleet have new shipping routes, and it’s all thanks to the melting of arctic ice. Back in August 2013, the Yongsheng became the first Chinese cargo ship to travel through the Arctic’s formerly frozen northeastern sea route. The…

  • No One Really Says LOL Anymore, According to New Study

    No One Really Says LOL Anymore, According to New Study

    AOL Instant Messenger revolutionized how tweens and teens socialized. Not only did it probably help everyone learn to type faster than 225 words per minute — the minimum speed needed to become certified by the National Court Reporters Association — but it also popularized emoticons, and abbreviations. Nowadays, AIM is just a nostalgic relic. According…

  • Man Recovers $10,000 In Winning Lotto Tickets He Threw In The Trash

    Man Recovers $10,000 In Winning Lotto Tickets He Threw In The Trash

    We’ve all thrown out things we’ve probably needed: receipts for something that we wanted to return, a piece of paper with an important number on it, or the post-it with our home’s wifi password. But have you ever thrown out $10,000? Rome News Tribune reports that for Cedric Jackson, the panic of tossing out a…

  • Mortgage Interest Rates Rise to Highest Level This Year

    Mortgage Interest Rates Rise to Highest Level This Year

    Mortgage rates rose modestly in the week preceding Aug. 20, according to the Bankrate regular report, with the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage reaching its highest point since October of 2014. Bankrate calculated the rate at 4.06%, a slightly more conservative figure than the 4.29% reported by Ellie Mae the day before.…