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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has just finished a new regulatory definition of shellfish. The new definition omits the phrase, “having a shell.” The consequence is that non-fish seafood such as squid, octopus, and cuttlefish will now be considered shellfish, even though they don’t have the distinctive characteristics of a shell. It changes the whole concept of defining a shellfish. Culture today...

Don’t you have to be careful getting into a car that has been locked up for several hours and sitting in the sun? You can burn your hands just on the steering wheel. Mercedes AMG which utilizes a metallic AMG on the driver’s seat, is now being sued because some customers claimed that the “AMG” is so hot that those letters are now scorched onto their skin. A dermatologist in the lawsuit said that t...

Be careful what you collect as a souvenir. It could be very dangerous. Steve Martin is a Texas man whose son found a 20-pound iron cylinder while fishing. He placed it on his desk for several years. A visitor with the military said that it could be a live bomb and carried it out to the base and confirmed that the artillery shell was live and he safely disposed of it. What Steve thought was just an...

During the summer of 2025, a monkey was abandoned by his mother and found by some people who carried him to the Ichikawa Zoo. They named him Punch. He was looking for some security, so they gave him a toy orangutan. Punch clutched it all day long. They just celebrated his one-year birthday, and he has become a hero in Japan. He received over 2,500 birthday cards from around the world and stories a...

A medieval church in Halberstadt, Germany is playing the longest composition known to man. It is designed to play for 639 years. The performance of composer John Cage’s ORGAN/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible). It actually began in 2001 and is now 4% complete. It is designed to end on September 4, 2640. Tickets are being sold today for $3,000. You can stay as long as you want, but you won’t hear the end...

Every day that we wake up, it is a gift from God to be alive. We need to spend each day very wisely. Don’t waste any part of today. How we start the day determines how the day goes. Some people tell us to have a good day. My dad used to tell me that telling someone to have a good day means that there is little responsibility on our part. Instead of saying have a good day, say, “Make it a good day....

Every day when we wake up, we need to decide that we are going to follow in the steps of Jesus. His steps always lead to the right place. Peter reminds people that we must walk in His steps. I picture footprints in the snow, and we try to place our feet in those footprints. Notice that you can’t see far ahead of you. When you carry a light, it just shows what’s in front of you. God doesn’t always...

Buc-ee’s has become extremely popular across the southeast. The new Buc-ee’s near Auburn really attracts the business. But Buc-ee’s is now suing a small business in Ohio called Beaver’s Mini Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio, which features a cartoon bearer on its signs. It is very similar to Buc-ee’s but it apparently existed before Buc-ee’s expanded beyond Texas in 2018. As a defense, they are saying th...

On July 27, 2026, John Kauterman found a sealed bottle from a nine-year-old girl who put it in the water on August 20, 1973 from Ocean City, NJ. As a joke she wrote, “This bottle was adrift on August 20, 1973 on 2nd Street beach Ocean City as my captors were transporting me to an island off shore in the Atlantic. Please notify my family that a band of ruthless sponge fisherman are forcing me to di...

Be creative in doing your work. A New Jersey police department is really creative. Because people are driving and looking at their phones, they have placed a camouflaged policeman in a scraggly tree on a busy thoroughfare. He has a pair of binoculars and reports people who are using their phone while driving. They don’t see him because they are looking at their phone. It has been effective. This c...

Harry Potter fans exert more influence than most of us realize. An undersea power line that links Wales and Ireland, which is valued at $580 million, was rerouted because Potter fans noted that the power line crossed a beach that was used to film the burial of the fictitious house elf Dobby. Actually, the new route goes close to the grave of Dobby, but the project manager, Simon Ludiam, was quick...

Often times a problem can turn out to be a blessing. Johnson Thompson is an Alabama teenager who had a problem sleeping. On June 30, 2026, he was awake at 4:30 in the morning so he decided to get up and go to his parent’s workshop and get an early start on the day. On the way, he saw a 76-year-old lady trying to get in a closed business. He discovered that she was disoriented and called emergency...

Many of us witnessed the July 4th fireworks in Washington that was claimed by President Trump to be “the largest fireworks show in history.” Guiness World records confirmed it. Over 840,537 fireworks were detonated in a period of 40 minutes. That’s a lot of noise and power displayed in a short length of time. The show did push the air quality in Washington into the Code Purple “very unhealthy” ran...

James Monroe Hand was 18 years old and went missing overnight in Mobile Bay near Point Clear. A rescue mission soon became a recovery mission as they searched for his body. They had an advanced sonar team, and they saw something strange on the search screen. It was a dolphin on sonar. They looked at it at different angles and beside the dolphin appeared the body of James. The dolphin actually stay...

How long do you expect God’s power to work in our world today? Earthly power is limited—God’s power is unlimited. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is 92 years old, and he has been using the same vacuum cleaner for 34 years. It’s a tan Hoover that he named Beth, but now it has malfunctioned and no longer has power. He will have to find another way to do his cleaning. God’s redeeming power will last fore...

This past summer some commercial fishermen caught a rare blue lobster and saved the life of the lobster by giving him to the New Hampshire Science Museum. They sent it to a museum that’s full of other rare colored lobsters with genetic mutations that have pigments that produce these multi colors. The lobster has new life and was released into the Atlantic on Labor Day with a tag to identify him if...

In an airport gift shop in Tasmania, customers got a real surprise as they were looking at shelves of stuffed animals. One lady claimed that she saw some huge brown eyes moving on one of the creatures. It was real. It was a live possum hiding amongst the kangaroos and Tasmanian devils. The airport retail manager, Liam Bloomfield, gave the explanation that probably, “The possum saw all the stuffed...

It’s good to allow students to have creative experiments, but be sure that the ingredients of the experiment are properly disposed. A school in Waldoboro, Maine allowed such a student experiment to allow dirt to be baked to measure post-incineration plant growth. I’m not sure how the experiment turned out but somehow the baked dirt reappeared at a community supper and served as a dessert. The high...

A Texas man drove his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to see if it would really float. He wanted to test it. He abandoned the half-submerged vehicle and was charged by the local police. The charges included boating without a license. The police said that it was foolish to test such an advertising principle and “we wouldn’t encourage willingly driving your vehicle into the water.” Some things need to...

Your reputation is a reflection of your character. Most people want a good reputation but it’s not something you can buy—it’s something you have to work at every day of your life. It’s not something you build quickly—it’s done little by little. Every time you do something good or positive, it goes into your positive reputation account. It may take years to build that account. The tragedy is that r...

Recently, Chef Mirko Ricci wanted to break the Guinness World Record for the longest tiramisu cake. He held the record until 2019 when he lost it. He has engaged over 100 chefs in London to help him break the new record. He needed 150,000 ladyfinger biscuits and 20,000 eggs in order to make the record-breaking cake. It was 1,445 feet long. They did it. They topped the tiramisu cake with a golden c...

Luis Salazar went into the men’s restroom at the Wawa service station in Riviera Beach, Florida. He found a black fanny pack on the handicap bar in the bathroom. He opened it and it had $30,023 in it. He ran to the convenient store parking lot and didn’t see anybody who looked like the man who came out of the restroom. Luis went to the police and told them about it. A few days later, the man who o...

What is really cool and what is not. Recently, a YouGov survey took several items to see which were the most cool. While most folks think it’s cool to use cannabis, the survey rated weed fourth to last on a 36-item coolness scale. Cannabis actually rated less cool than sour dough bread, math, and even country music. Interestingly enough, it did rate above sports betting. The lowest rating went to...

Be sure that your sins will find you out. Ask Isaac Valencia, a 29-year-old who was trying to rob a California coffee shop when he fell through the roof. He began crying for help but to no avail at first. Finally, some people in the coffee shop called the police and they knocked on the wall and heard the faint voice. They then started to tear into the cinder-block wall and were able to free Isaac...

Sometimes a law’s influence goes way beyond what was intended. This happened recently at a Ford-Lincoln dealership in Kansas. They had a sale for a F-250 pickup truck, but then realized that a robin had built a nest on one of its tires and laid four eggs in it. A federal law kept the company from moving the Ford pickup truck. They advertised they had the only F-250 in America that was protected by...