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Two new studies offer the suggestion that gadgets are making people dumber, and that's not hard to believe. The first study said that people who got interrupted by technology lower on a standard cognition test. That makes sense, although I would imagine that being interrupted by anything would cause lower scores. The other study showed that some students have a hard time concentrating on homework for more than two minutes without using social media or email to distract themselves. That also makes sense, given the number of people I see, including myself, who are constantly checking their cellphones for email or to see what's going on on Twitter or Facebook. Like calculators probably put the final nail in the coffin of people ever knowing how to do math, smartphones and tablets are probably the end of people being able to concentrate on anything else. (NBC News)

The ultimate excuse for leaving the scene of an accident: this guy told police that he led a fender bender because he ate some bad Chinese food and was about to poop his pants. I have no way of knowing whether he's telling the truth, but if you were about to poop your pants, you'd probably leave the scene, too. (The Smoking Gun)

This guy claims that his penis was "catastrophically disfigured" when he used Kama Sutra Pleasure Balm Prolonging Gel, leaving him permanently unable to ejaculate. He says that he used the stuff multiple times without incident, but then used it and put on a condom afterwards, and that left him with a swollen penis, needing emergency medical treatment and leaving him permanently scarred and disfigured. I really don't know what to say about that, other than that maybe it's best don't put anything near that particular area. (Courthouse News Service)