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Young people are more likely to support pot legalization, even in the Christian community (AP)A recent poll showing that a slim majority of Americans now support the legalization of marijuana made national headlines. And now, the pro-pot movement appears to have taken another step forward, with a survey showing that nearly half of all young Christians in the U.S. also favor legalizing cannabis.

In the poll, 50 percent of self-identified Christian youths ages 18-29 favor legalizing marijuana. Forty-four percent of those surveyed say they oppose legalization. Only 22 percent of Christian seniors who took part in the survey said they favor legalization.

“While most religious Americans overall continue to oppose the legalization of marijuana, the generational sea change on this issue is also shifting the ground inside churches,” said Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI), the group that conducted the survey. “Christian young adults are twice as likely as Christian senior adults to say both that marijuana should be legal and that using marijuana is

Gus Dorman puts together a puzzle picture of the Periodic Table of Elements (Rob Dorman/ABC News)He’s one of the youngest members of Mensa, but a 5-year-old boy from Collinsville, Ill., earned his stripes in a pretty conventional manner: learning to read on the toilet.

“He started reading when he was 18 months old,” Rob Dorman told the Suburban Journal about his son, Gus, whom he found perusing a paper in the bathroom. “He was sitting on the porta-potty reading a newspaper. I noticed that he liked to look at maps so I put one up. In about a week's time, he had memorized everything on it. He's just always been very clever.”

In addition to reading at an exceptionally early age, Gus has also memorized every element on the periodic table, along with every country in the world and all 50 U.S. states.

“They teach me stuff I already know,” Gus told the Suburban Journal when asked about his kindergarten experience.

His parents agreed, saying Gus has been struggling at school because the coursework is simply too easy for him.

“He's so far advanced, he is bored and he gets into trouble,”

The first ever audio recording of Alexander Graham Bell has been uncoveredResearchers have discovered the world’s first voice mail: an audio recording of Alexander Graham Bell made on April 15, 1885, using a mixture of cardboard and wax.

The Smithsonian Magazine has posted the audio recording, in which the inventor of the telephone announces, “In witness whereof—hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell.”

Listen to the audio recording here.

The recording was made in humble surroundings, inside a former stable used by Bell and his cousin in Washington, D.C. Biographer Charlotte Gray explains that Bell was motivated to create the recording in an attempt to improve upon an earlier audio recording made by Bell’s rival, Thomas Edison.

Along with this prized recording, and Bell’s legacy of having invented the telephone, he's credited with other forward-thinking technology as well. In 1880, he patented an optical telephone system, which is seen as predicting the use of mobile phones and fiber optics.

Bell had a wide range of interests, covering topics as diverse as

A new study says voice texting is just as dangerous as using your hands (AP)Going hands-free on your mobile device to send a text while driving is no less dangerous than the traditional method, according to a new university study.

In fact, the risk is nearly identical, with both ways cutting reaction time for drivers in half.

Christine Yager, who led the study for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, said the research was "a useful step, and we’re eager to see what other studies may find."

It was conducted as part of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.

A number of unsettling statistics have come out recently as part of the ongoing effort to help reduce behavior called “distracted driving.”

In March, a study found that adults are far more likely to text while driving than teens. Another study released in early April found that daydreaming while driving results in thousands of fatal car accidents each year.

For its study, TTI tested 47 drivers on a closed course to measure their reaction times while using the two most popular voice-controlled texting

A copy of Stadium Events could be worth thousands (Wikicommons)A North Carolina woman stumbled across a rare find when she purchased a 1980s video game from a Goodwill store for $8. That may not sound like a great deal. However, it turns out that the game, Family Fun Fitness: Stadium Events, may be worth as much as $38,000.

Video games are not like fine wine; their value diminishes rapidly with most gamers lucky to get a few dollars of store credit when trading in their used games.

Now, it may come as a surprise to some that a game released in 1986 for the original Nintendo Entertainment System is drawing such interest. The game currently has a $12,000 asking price on the site Game Gavel.

The game could have been worth more than that, but the copy was removed from its original packaging and appears to have been used. Still, there's no doubt it's an extremely rare find.

Journalist Katie Williams reports that the unnamed woman spotted "the holy grail" of games at the Goodwill store and recalled that a similar copy made news on Yahoo when it sold for

A screenshot from the new Star Trek video game (Paramount)

Star Trek video games have been around for so long that many cast members from the 2009 film were not even born when Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator warped into arcades in 1983.

But today’s release of Star Trek for Xbox, PlayStation and PC is the first major gaming release to feature that new cast, which surprised fans of the well-received J.J. Abrams film.

So, does the new Star Trek game deliver?

In short, yes, though not without some caveats.

As we discussed with Paramount’s Brian Miller, producer of the game, back in January, gaming titles based on movie properties can be a tough sell. And Star Trek's latest falls short in a few areas. But unlike most major licensed properties, Star Trek’s story is actually its strongest selling point, just as it was in the 2009 film.

In a clear ode to Abrams’ method of storytelling, the game opens with a flash forward, showing Captain Kirk and Commander Spock fighting for their lives on a desert-like planet—and apparently under the

More than 40 years after it was first unveiled, "Pong" is once again the biggest video game in the world. No, people aren’t turning in their Xbox and Play Station gaming systems for Atari consoles. In a project by Drexel University professor Frank J. Lee, a game of "Pong" was broadcast on the side of a 29-story skyscraper in Philadelphia.

“The idea for this project began in 2008 when I was driving East on I76 in Philadelphia at night heading towards Center City,” Lee wrote on his website. “Like many nights before, I saw the sparkling lights of the beautiful Cira Centre building. However, this night as I was staring at those lights, in my mind's eye I saw Tetris shapes outlined by those lights rotating and falling.”

When "Pong" was first released in 1972, it quickly became a national phenomenon. The game is essentially a rudimentary form of tennis, in which players use paddle joysticks to bounce a digital ball back and forth.

To make his dream a reality, Lee and his team installed

UPDATE 7:07 pm CT: Just minutes after the rally's keynote speech was completed, three individuals were shot by an unknown assailant. None of the injuries were described as life-threatening, with two of the victims being grazed by gunfire and a third individual shot in the leg. Approximately seven gunshots were heard shortly before 5pm. As the gunfire erupted, the surprised crowd, still numbering in the thousands, began to flee in all directions. It was initially reported that two people had been shot, along with one of the individual's pet dog. However, the Denver Police Department tweeted that a third individual, a juvenile, was grazed by a bullet and escorted himself to a nearby hospital.

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DENVER, CO. - Ten years ago, Ken Gorman, the founder of Denver’s annual “420 Rally,” stood inside the city’s Civic Center Park with about a dozen supporters as they pushed for marijuana legalization.

Today, an estimated 80,000 individuals gathered in the same location as they celebrated