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The spotlight may love Honey Boo Boo, but apparently the 7-year-old reality star is growing tired of living life under it.

In an interview with HLN’s Dr. Drew, Alana Thompson, the star of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” awoke from pretending to be asleep to declare that she doesn’t like being on TV. Why? “Because fans come up to me and I hate it,” Alana said.

Alana and Mama June, who’s also known as ‘Coupon Queen,’ did a media blitz on a recent trip to Los Angeles. The duo stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live” where Alana proclaimed Barack Obama as her pick for president, responded to a viral Christopher Walken video and filmed at Lisa Vanderpump’s Villa Blanca. It was there where Honey Boo Boo met “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” scene-stealer, Giggy.

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Renal organoids, implanted in a rat

With 26 million Americans having chronic kidney disease and almost 100,000 waiting for a kidney transplant, the numbers themselves are rather grim. Although the amount of donors and transplants has risen recently, researchers are still looking for ways to build an organic kidney that could replace defective ones. As a temporary solution, other researchers have looked at creating an artificial kidney that would give more time while waiting for a transplant.

The Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research has successfully built kidney “organoids”. They are not like “whole” kidneys, but they perform the same organic functions – mainly blood filtration. This was done by growing kidney tissues and the hard part was to promote enough blood vessels growth in the new areas so that blood filtering could happen. For now, it works in rats.

This is more an “extension” of the kidney than a replacement, but if it helps performing the function, why not? Although this seems very promising, we’re probably years, if not decades, away from any human medical application. What do you think of the idea of growing a kidney in a lab one day?

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This past Sunday, Roy Hibbert put his spin on the trend that just won’t die: parodies of the hit K-pop video, “Gangnam Style.”

The Pacers center went all out organizing a flash mob at Indianapolis’ Circle Centre Mall with his personal cheering crew, Area 55. He even had a white suit jacket specially made for the event, according to Yahoo! Sports.

The sports world has been unable to escape the phenomenon, with a bevy of NFL players employing singer Psy’s trademark gallop in their victory dances.

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Much research probing the link between bullying and mental health has focused on how being bullied contributes to the development of issues like anxiety and depression. But a new study suggests the relationship goes both ways, finding that boys and girls with mental health disorders are three times more likely to be the bully.

The study, presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ national conference in New Orleans on Monday, found that kids with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) — which is characterized by frequent tantrums and revenge seeking — were six times more likely to be identified as bullies than children with no mental health disorders, while children with depression were three times more likely. Children with anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were also around three times more likely to be bullies, according to parental reports.

“There is a larger story behind why children bully,” said study author Dr. Frances Turcotte-Benedict, a Brown University masters of public health student and a fellow at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. “And part of that story may include the diagnosis of a mental health disorder.”

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Launched earlier this year both NEC VersaPro VZ, a Celeron Powered Tablet with a 128GB SSD, 4GB of RAM and a 12.5″ screen as well as the UltraLite VG, an Ultrabook powered by a Core i7-3517U with 4GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD and a 13.3″ screen are not set to be available in Japan running with Windows 8 Pro.