"Big Brains or Big Blessing"

Jacob Barnett does what most kids his age do, he shoots hoops, plays video games and also has a girlfriend.

But unlike most 12 year old Jacob also has an IQ of 170. At the age of 3 he could all ready solve 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles. He was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. This did not stop Jake one bit, a few years later, he taught himself calculus, algebra, and geometry in just two weeks. He was finished with high school at age 8, and is currently taking college-level advanced astrophysics classes—while tutoring his older classmates. The University of Indiana is even recruiting him for a paid researcher job.

So what's this whiz-kid up to now you might ask, he's at work on a theory that challenges the Big Bang—the prevailing explanation among scientists for how the universe came about. It's not clear how developed it is, but experts say he's asking the right questions.

Wow what raw brain power for such a young guy. So can we chalk this up to pure smarts or did Jacob get his extra helping of smarts from the good graces of God. Seems funny that with all those smarts he's focused on disproving the Big Bang Theory the one theory that challenges if there's a God.

We know where his extraordinary gift came from, We're just happy he's using his gifts to Pursue his Passion! What do you guys think?

A recent survey unvails that college Freshmen are more stressed now than ever before!

Surprise. This year’s college Freshman class is reporting record low levels of emotional health, according to a survey released Thursday by “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” the New York Times reports.

Researchers surveyed more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges and found that the percentage of students who feel below average emotionally has risen, while, the percentage of students who feel above average emotionally has fallen to 52 percent.

The economy and high student loans are partly to blame for the phenomenon, experts say.

“More students are arriving on campus with problems, needing support, and today’s economic factors are putting a lot of extra stress on college students, as they look at their loans and wonder if there will be a career waiting for them on the other side,” said Brian Van Brunt, director of counseling at Western Kentucky University and president of the American College Counseling Association, according to the source.

According to LiveHealthy some things to help with stress in school are...

1. Don’t procrastinate.
2. Don’t do too much in one study session.
3. Ask for help.
4. Have some fun.
5. Talk to someone.
and last but not least
6. Be a leader not a follower.

March 28th what's new!!

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Japan Still Needs Our Help Guys!

NOT because you feel bad for a nation in need
NOT because you'd want them to do it for you
& definitely NOT because you want recognition

How about Because you're human and it the human thing to do. Click below to donate what you can!!

And the award for best actress goes too....

We've been watching Natalie Portman pursue her passion as an actress since she captivated our hearts when she played an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action file Le'on. Turn the clock 17 years later and there's this huge buzz about how Natalie Portman really embraced her role as a ballerina in her ever so PASSIONATE Oscar winning performance in Black Swan. Which we did happen to see the movie and thought she more than gave an Oscar worthy performance. But all of a sudden after the show stopping actress received her award and good prasies for an acting job we done, her dancing double shows up and proceeds to slam her about how she did not tell anyone that it wasnt her dancing in every scene of the movie. REALLY? You don't say, man we thought that really was Tom Cruise jumping out of helicopters and Danile Craig driving that Aston Martin at crazy speeds through tunnels in Europe. You mean to tell the world that actor and actress have doubles when they film movies, NO WAY. But honestly there is no need to Sarah Lane, the American Ballet Theater dancer who played as Natalie's dance double to gripe about her not telling the world "Oh by the way it was Sarah you saw in some of those more difficult scenes I did". What do you guys think? Do this now mean that she doesn't deserve the Oscar or she should sing Sarah's praises because she did her job as a dance double and Natalie did her's as a leading lady. Honestly what are your guys' thoughts on this.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Okay so here's our corny simi-funny St. Patty's Day joke...

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83rd Academy Awards

Its only fitting that we of course watched the 83rd Academy Awards, being as how we are quite fond of the number 83. After all was said an done it looks as if "The King's Speech" stole the show. Not only did it bring home the night's most sought after award, it also nabbed Best Director and Best Actor as well. Not a bad night for the passionate small British drama.

"The Kings Speech" now and forever will placed in the great company of movies like Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Gladiator, No Country for Old Men, and the list goes on.