During the graduation ceremony at North Saint Paul High School in Minnesota, two guys in the crowd got into a fight.  Then later on, one of the kids tripped while he was stepping off the stage, and landed on his face.

There’s a ridiculous infomercial out for a fart-proof blanket that’s designed for married people who can’t stand sleeping next to someone with bad gas. And they say it’s made out of the same material the military uses to protect against chemical weapons.

There are a million old wives’ tales about how to predict your unborn baby’s sex. But are any of them true? A writer for NewScientist.com who’s pregnant decided to do some research. Here’s what she found . . .

OLD WIVES’ TALE #1.) BAD MORNING SICKNESS MEANS IT’S A BOY. Actually, the opposite might be true. In 1999, doctors in Sweden analyzed the records of over 8,000 women they treated for morning sickness.

55.7% had girls, and only 44.3% had boys. Compare that to the general population. Overall, 51.4% of the babies born in Sweden are boys. And a separate study in Denmark had similar statistics.

But here’s something else they found that’s even weirder. Single Mothers with morning sickness were even more likely to have girls. Only 40% of them had boys.

OLD WIVES’ TALE #2.) IF THE BABY HAS A FAST HEARTBEAT, IT’S A GIRL. According to this one, if the baby’s heart rate is higher than 140 beats per minute, you’re having a girl.

But researchers used an ultrasound to measure the heartbeats of 477 babies in their first trimester, and there wasn’t much of a difference. The average heart rate for girls was 152 beats per minute, and the average heart rate for boys was 155.

Plus, it changes depending on what stage of pregnancy you’re in. At the beginning of a pregnancy, the baby’s heart rate is between 170 and 200 beats per minute. Then by the second trimester, it’s drops to between 120 and 160 beats per minute.

The only time there IS a difference is during labor. Baby girls tend to have faster heart rates than boys do, but no one knows why.

OLD WIVES’ TALE #3.) WEIRD FOOD CRAVINGS MEANS IT’S A BOY. This one actually has a little science to back it up, but still it’s probably just a myth.

Researchers in Boston found that pregnant women with big appetites have boys more often. But they didn’t say anything about women who crave weird food.

And the problem is, it’s hard to know if you have a bigger appetite than other women because ALL pregnant women eat more than they usually do.

OLD WIVES’ TALE #4.) WOMEN JUST KNOW. Some women say their “female intuition” can predict the baby’s sex. And guess what . . . they might be right.

In 1998, researchers at the University of Tucson asked 108 pregnant women to predict the sex of their baby. 60% guessed right. Of course, the chances of guessing right are fifty-fifty anyway, so it’s not THAT amazing.

OLD WIVES’ TALE #5.) THE SHAPE OF THE BUMP. The myth is, if you’re carrying the baby high, it’s a boy, if you’re carrying the baby low, it’s a girl. But there’s really nothing to back this one up either.

The only thing that can predict a baby’s sex with close to 100% accuracy is a sonogram. They’re 95% accurate.

If your boss is into the whole science thing, take this to him or her and see if you can get yourself permanent four-day weekends.

A new study out of the University of Melbourne in Australia found that we should only be working three days a week.

The researchers found that our brains can only really function at their peak levels for about 25 hours a week. After that, the quality of our work declines really quickly.

The drop is so bad that if you ever try to pull a crazy 70-hour week, your brain is basically useless by the end.

Now, there is one catch. The study only included people over 40, so it’s possible that younger people can hang in a little longer. But still, no matter how old you are, at some point too much work just makes your brain shut down.

In case you haven’t heard, it’s great to be a guy. Here’s even more proof . . .

According to a new study from the University of Queensland in Australia, women are just as attracted to guys carrying a few extra pounds, as they are to dudes with six-pack abs.

A woman named Phillippa Diedrichs led the study. She interviewed more than 600 men and women, and asked them to rate the attractiveness of several different male body types in print ads.

Phillippa says some of the participants may have, quote, “attributed the models’ muscularity to vanity or homosexuality, characteristics which they may have found unpleasant or discomforting.”

But when guys are a little too skinny, or a little too chubby, they’re thought to be less concerned with their appearance. Apparently, that’s an attractive trait in men.

In other words, packing on a few extra pounds shouldn’t prevent you from pulling chicks. And who knows . . . it might even help.

I was 16 when I first mastered the art of unhooking a bra with one hand. And with seasoning, my skills have only improved. Which is why I’m only kinda impressed with this . . . Read More »

If you told this guy his date would end with nudity, he would’ve been happy. Unfortunately it was the wrong kind of nudity.

A guy in Broward County, Florida met up with a woman he’d been texting on Saturday, to go on a date. But it turned out to be a set up.

When he pulled up in his Mercedes, two of the woman’s male friends pulled guns on him . . . made him strip naked . . . then stole his car, his wallet, his phone, and all his clothes.

This has got to be the worst first date ever!

So he got his hands on another phone and called 911. Then the cops were able to use his Find My iPhone app to track down the carjackers.

They arrested 26-year-old William Gonzalez of Coral Springs, Florida but didn’t find the other guy . . . or the woman who set the whole thing up.

Gonzalez is facing robbery and carjacking charges.

Ironic t-shirts and police mugshots are a match made in heaven. Especially when they go together this perfectly.

29-year-old Joshua Tackett of Kensington, New Hampshire was driving drunk on Friday night. And he lost control, swerved off the road, hit a wall, hit a lamp post, and then came to a stop . . . right in front of a police station.

So the good news for Josh is that help came outside right away. The bad news is that the cops arrested him for drunk driving.

And in his mugshot, you can see he was wearing a t-shirt that said, quote, “This guy needs a beer.”

We’re thinking his beer allocation was just fine though, because in the photo he’s smiling. Either that or he appreciated the irony. His face was pretty banged up too.

We spend a lot of time making jokes about all the ridiculous differences between men and women. And I’ll admit it . . . sometimes we can rely a little too heavily on stupid gender stereotypes to get a laugh.

But there’s no denying that sometimes the stereotypes are true.

To prove my point, here are four gender stereotypes that actually are backed up by science:

#1.) Women can’t drive: It’s not your fault, ladies. It’s just that your brains aren’t wired to process north-and-south navigational directions as well as the male brain.

And studies have also found that the female brain has more trouble orienting itself in three-dimensional spaces. Spaces like . . . you know . . . the real world.

#2.) Guys are filthy slobs: The reason your guy can wear the same filthy T-shirt for a week straight is because . . . unlike you ladies . . . he just can’t tell it smells like rotting garbage.

Physically, there’s no difference between the noses of men and women, and they both have the same number of receptors. But women devote a bigger chunk of their brains to processing scents, which gives them a better sense of smell than men.

#3.) Women are wimps: This is the point where every woman who’s ever lived chimes in to point out that women experience childbirth, which is way more painful than anything a man could ever endure.

But that’s only because when they’re pregnant or have just given birth, women are loaded up with endorphins and a cocktail of other natural chemicals to help them handle the pain.

In general, though, women have more pain receptors in their skin, and less of a protein called GIRK2 that affects their pain threshold. In other words, women are bigger wimps . . . but only because they actually experience more pain than men.

#4.) Women can’t hold their liquor: You probably think it’s because women tend to be smaller physically than men, but that’s NOT the reason they’re lightweights . . . at least not entirely. It has to do with the water-to-fat ratios of their bodies.

See, men are made up of about 61% water, while for women it’s just 52%. Which may not seem like a big deal, but it’s as if every drink a guy has is 9% more watered down than every drink a woman has.

And the male liver also produces more of the enzyme that breaks down alcohol, which causes guys to get a buzz slower, and to sober up faster.

You probably shouldn’t go around calling people fat especially Anna Godfrey of Lincoln, Nebraska. Anna’s 21 years old . . . she’s super chubby . . . and she will mess somebody up if they step out of line.

On Wednesday, Anna was at a birthday party when some dude named Christian Bandiola dared to call her, quote, “FAT.” She responded by biting off a chunk of his ear.

Police say Godfrey ran half a block to catch up with him, and then tackled Christian. Once there, police say she bit his right ear and caused a gash approximately 1/2″x 3/4″ wide – sort of…chunk-sized.

For some reason, Anna was arrested on the suspicion of felony assault. The chunk of Christian’s ear was never found.