On April 27, Jeffrey Hunter, 22, knew that a tornado was rapidly moving towards his house in Vilonia, Arkansas. With only minutes to spare before the massive EF-4 twister was to hit, he sent a series of texts to his mother, 20 miles away, that ended up being his final goodbye. Now, those texts are being cherished by Regina Wood, Hunter’s mother, who said she’ll hold on to them forever. MORE

Behaving like a psychopath could help you in your career and love life. It’s counterintuitive – who, after all, would hire Hannibal Lecter or want to date Norman Bates – but that’s the idea behind The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success, part popular science book, part self-help guide from Andy McNab and Oxford psychology professor Kevin Dutton.  MORE

Believe it. A New Jersey-based atheist group is starting the first on-demand TV channel dedicated to godlessness. AtheistTV will be launching this summer with big plans to reach out to atheists, humanists, freethinkers, and folks who are looking for a way out of faith.  MORE

At the family values group at Notre Dame was told to “cease and desist” a traditional marriage table at the Catholic university after administrators allegedly called the police and forced the table to be shut down.

The student group, Tradition Family Property Student Action, first reported the incident on their website TFP Student Action claiming that “[p]ermission to have a table had been granted through an officially recognized on-campus student group.” “Police officers arrived soon after we started giving out pro-family literature and cut the event short.” – John Ritchie MORE

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A 33-foot-tall bronze statue of a naked, pregnant woman that stands on real estate mogul Aby Rosen’s luxurious Old Westbury property has been covered in black after neighbors complained that the artwork was disrupting their “bucolic views.”

The immaculate piece was conceived by British artist Damien Hirst and features a walking woman whose skin has been ripped away from the right side of her body, exposing skull, muscles and her fetus. MORE

Rapid Realty NYC offers its employees a 15 percent lifetime pay bump for dying a tattoo of the company’s logo on their bodies. And more than 70 of their salesmen and saleswomen have seen Brooklyn Ink Tattoo’s Matt Huff to achieve that pay raise.

“My job’s not to judge what my client gets,” Huff says. “My job’s to respect what they want and do the best that I can.” MORE

Aubrey de Grey, 51, is the man who insists that within a few decades technology will enable us human beings to beat death and live forever. Actually, he’s not the only one to make these assertions​—​that death is a problem to be solved, not a fate to be endured​—​but he is the only one I know of to give eternal life an exciting, just-around-the-corner timeline. “Someone is alive right now who is going to live to be 1,000 years old,” MORE  Can We Live Forever? VIDEO: MORE  Google wants you to live forever MORE  Do these startling longevity studies mean your lifespan could double? MORE

Man sues for the right to marry his porn-laden Macbook, arguing that if gays are allowed to marry then so should other sexual minorities. Chris Sevier, a man from Florida, believes he should be allowed to wed his Macbook. Mr Sevier argues that if gays should be allowed to marry, then so should other sexual minorities. Mr Sevier states he has fallen in love with a pornography laden computer. “Over time, I began preferring sex with my computer over sex with real women,” he told a court in Florida.This appears to be not a passing holiday romance, but a lifelong commitment. MORE

An earthquake struck northern Thailand and Myanmar on Monday, smashing windows, cracking roads and walls, and damaging Buddhist temples. Here, villagers examine a damaged Buddha statue in Chiang Rai province. MORE

Paul Begley: Spiritual warfare is taking place as the Devil is trying to destroy the message of salvation and the messengers MORE

Virtually everything that you do is being watched.  Do you drive a car?  Do you watch television?  Do you use a cell phone?  As you do any of those things, information about you is being recorded and tracked.  We live at a time when personal privacy is dying.  And it is not just governments that are doing this.  In fact, sometimes private companies are the biggest offenders.  It turns out that gathering information about all of us is very, very profitable. MORE

Mile for mile, there are almost as many earthquakes rattling Oklahoma as California this year. This major increase in seismic shaking led to a rare earthquake warning today (May 5) from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

In a joint statement, the agencies said the risk of a damaging earthquake — one larger than magnitude 5.0 — has significantly increased in central Oklahoma. MORE

Included is the ‘selfie’ for the baby. Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor who works at a New Jersey abortion clinic, decided she wanted to be an inspiration to other women by filming her own abortion.

A story on Letts from ThinkProgress focuses on her insistence on how pain-free and safe the procedure was – for her. Of course, it wasn’t so pain-free and safe for the baby, but there is no mention of the baby in the entire article – or, for that matter, his or her father. Letts published an essay on Cosmopolitan.com describing how wonderful the whole experience was for her. Letts wrote: MORE

The Associated Press reported Monday that Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast.

There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable, but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California. MORE