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It's been a big year for pot, with the states of Washington and Colorado both legalizing the drug for recreational use and many more proposing legalization or already allowing it for medical reasons (or just looking the other way). And now, for the first time ever, a majority of Americans are in favor of weed's full legalization.

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Carl Sagan's timeless ode to Earth is all the more compelling in this captivating treatment from Reid Gower and The Sagan Series.

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Think about it: a Superman-style superhero built for today. The whole savior-from-the-sky bit is crucial but everything else about the character would have to be almost completely different, no? More vulnerable. Less omniscient. More fashionable. Yet, for him to act with all that outsize brashness and altruism, he couldn’t be an adult. He’d have to be a kid. That’s what you’re getting in Battling Boy.

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OHHHHHH, YEAH. OHHH.... no. Oh, no. Oh, dear.

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Fed up with fans constantly bombarding him with requests to belt out his one his iconic movie lines — "even when I walk into Starbucks" — Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to just give in and take requests.

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That's right, all of them — and the shape or size of the animal doesn't matter. Scientists are calling it the Law of Urination, and it's a process driven by the way mammalian urinary systems evolved to eject fluids from the body in the quickest and most efficient way allowable by physics.

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A Florida high school student who posed for a selfie while his pregnant teacher was experiencing contractions behind him found viral fame this week after his photo was retweeted over 20,000 times.

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Windsor city officials were sent scrambling for the red phone this week after a local news station alerted them to a bushy, 10-foot-tall penis that popped up overnight along the waterfront.

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Or at least why he shouldn't team up with Badman, the imbecilic hero played with such gusto by Pete Holmes. Warner Bros., if you want to use this scene verbatim in the Batman/Superman movie, I'm totally cool with that.

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Aw, shucks. Science goin’ off and ruining everything again for cryptozoologists. The latest blow comes from a UK geneticist who says hair samples from an alleged Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, actually came from another — albeit real — creature from the north: an ancient hybrid between polar bears and brown bears.

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Moving forward with its initiative to collect millions of dollars in unpaid tolls, the Texas Department of Transportation today reminds habitual toll violators to pay up.  To "Shame" the violators, their names have been released.  Authority to publicly report the names of violators was provided by Senate Bill 1792 in an effort to collect more than $27 million in unpaid tolls. 

The primary targets for collection are the 28,000 vehicle owners who each have at least 100 unpaid tolls. Some of these offenders have vehicles with thousands of toll violations, which add up to money intended to be used to pay debt and fund operations on these roads. Published listings of toll violators will include the violator’s name, city and state of residence, number of unpaid tolls and total amount owed in tolls and fees.

In addition to publishing the list of top violators, TxDOT also has the authority to:

• Ban vehicles from using TxDOT toll roads with Texas Transportation Commission approval. If stopped by law enforcement, vehicles in violation of the ban can be ticketed and impounded.
• Report the habitual violators to county tax assessor-collectors to potentially block the renewal of the vehicle’s registration.

Motorists with unpaid toll violations should immediately contact the TxTag Customer Service Center at (888) 468-9824 between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. weekdays. A negotiated settlement amount may be offered as well as a payment plan, if needed.

It appears the latest round of fighting over how evolution will be taught in Texas schools is over.  The newest text books are getting a thumbs up from the Texas Freedom Network, a group that supports the teaching of Evolution.

They're against including theories like Intelligent Design in the biology books, believing it's not science and it's intended to dilute the importance of theory of evolution. The Network's Dan Quinn says their scientists approve of the latest versions of the biology books.  The process isn't over, the next step is more approvals.

With Wes Anderson releasing a brand new full-length feature less than two years after Moonrise Kingdom, you might be understandably concerned that the mise-en-scène master could be phoning it in (or, in his case, telegraphing it to a calligraphist).

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Receipts of vodka purchases by District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg show she bought a lot of vodka before getting arrested for drunk driving last April.

The receipts from Twin Liquor stores all over town show Lehmberg purchased 72 bottles - or 23 gallons - of vodka on her credit card over a 16 month period.  The receipts were subpoenaed by attorneys preparing a civil case against her.  Attorney Kerry O'Brien has been pushing for Lehmberg to step down office over the arrest.  The County Attorney is in charge of that case now.  O'Brien is keeping an eye on the case and says she bought the booze at seven different liquor stores across the city - purchasing booze at new stores every two weeks or so.  The booze was purchased with a credit card with her name on it.  He says he released the booze receipts in an effort to prevent Lehmberg and her supporters from pretending a problem doesn't exist.  Lehmberg did receive 'treatment' following her arrest - but it was not specified what kind of help that was.

Yesterday was Ada Lovelace day. Women have made great strides in the fields of science, math, engineering, and technology over the years, and October 15th marks a special day to celebrate their accomplishments each year. Amorphia Apparel has a ton of t-shirts featuring the ladies in those fields and any day of the year is a fine day to wear them or give them as gifts. They have a line featuring the hairstyles of the geniuses, a line with the names in rock band styles, and adorable pro-science tees.

Check out more of the collection after the break.

(Amorphia Apparel via LS)

For the past 13 years, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have prided themselves on being able to turn episodes around in exactly six days, and deliver them to Comedy Central just hours before they're set to air.

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