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Brazilian patient plays guitar during his own brain surgeryAnthony Kulkamp Dias was undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor, but that didn't stop him from jamming on his guitar. The 33-year-old Brazilian man's surgical team at Our Lady of Conception hospital in Tubarão, Brazil allowed him to play his guitar to help keep him awake during the procedu... Fifth grader absolutely slays an 'I Will Always Love You' performancePrepare to feel extra inferior about your fifth grade talent show "magic act." Eleven-year-old Mykel Lewis just blew his classmates out of the water with a spectacular cover of Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" at his elementary school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He flawlessl... Feds give the go-ahead to Indiana's Cannabis ChurchWhen Indiana's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) goes into effect on July 1, it will get tested by an unlikely source: a church devoted to marijuana, which now has federal nonprofit status. The First Church of Cannabis was recently granted tax-exempt status as a religious organ... Dr. Ruth: Women can't say no to sex once naked in bedDr. Ruth Westheimer, the famous sex therapist and advice columnist, recently weighed in on the debate over campus sexual assault, and it wasn't pretty Appearing on the Diane Rehm Show, on Monday, Westheimer said that once two people are "aroused" and "in bed together," the time for saying no or chan... Watch the Scripps Spelling Bee champs school Jimmy KimmelThe 2015 Scripps Spelling Bee ended in a tie for the second year in row. In the spirit of competition, however, co-champions Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam teamed up for the 12th annual Jimmy Kimmel Live Spelling Bee, playing against none other than the host himself Despite official pro... Stephen Hawking says he 'would consider assisted suicide'LONDON — Physicist Stephen Hawking says he would consider ending his life if he felt he had nothing more to contribute or had become a burden to those around him. See also: Stephen Hawking sings beautiful cover of Monty Python's 'Galaxy Song' The 73-year-old Cambridge professor, who has a form... The evolution of the spacewalk in picturesJune 3, 1965Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 space flight, floats in space during America’s first spacewalk. The extravehicular activity (EVA) was performed during the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965. White spent 23 minutes maneuvering around his spacecraft as Jim Mc... Giant new telescope set to break ground in Chile later this yearThe world's soon-to-be largest optical telescope is coming together. The Giant Magellan Telescope — a tool designed to peer into the atmospheres of alien planets and see the first galaxies that formed in the early universe — will start being built on a mountain in northern Chile later th... 'Skylanders SuperChargers' revs up with land, air and sea-based vehiclesThe heroes of Skylands are getting some sweet new ridesSkylanders SuperChargers, the next installment in Activision's multi-billion dollar video game/action figure franchise will introduce land, air and sea-based vehicles when it launches on Sept. 20 in North America. SuperChargers is the fifth gam... Texas executes 67-year-old man after 3 decades on death rowTexas executed Lester Bower Jr. Wednesday for a quadruple murder he maintained he didn't commit, making him the oldest prisoner executed in the most active death penalty state since the punishment was reinstated in 1982. The execution of the 67-year-old man, who was convicted of killing four men mor... |