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Cookie from the Cincinnati Zoo is an oldie but a goodie. (Tickling and hilarious penguin giggling starts after 1 minute.)

Do you see this otter? This is me. In March, I did the Rock’n'Roll Half Marathon in Dallas.

So somebody is either a brilliant criminal mastermind or someone who’s about to grow a third arm.

The state Department of Environmental Quality issued a notice today that 32 state lakes have enough mercury that people shouldn’t eat an unlimited amount of fish from those lakes.

A Georgia-based group is bringing 60,000 jars of peanut butter to those affected in the Moore and Shawnee areas.

With severe weather on the way again today, many of us will be tracking weather news online and on television.

Oh God. The more I watch this, the funnier it is.

May is Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month. Let’s celebrate with facts from the U.S. Census! 18.2 million: The estimated number of U.S. residents in 2011 who were Asian, either alone or in combination with one or more additional races. 5.8 million: The Asian alone or in combination population in California in 2011. The state ...

Hooray for the old folks! The U.S. Census sent out some fun facts in honor of Older Americans Month. 41.4 million: The number of people who were 65 and older in the United States on July 1, 2011, up from 40.3 million on April 1, 2010 (Census Day). In 2011, this group accounted for 13.3 ...

Whenever I run, I like to be as incognito as possible. We’re talking border-line ninja. I think my goal is to blend in as much as possible so nobody will notice the super-slow girl bringing up the rear. So my running attire for races is pretty standard: black shirt, black pants, white socks. No crazy ...

The state Education Department released survey data Thursday that showed how many high school seniors still needed to pass state-mandated end-of-instruction exams to graduate this year. (You can read a bunch of stuff about it in The Oklahoman on Friday.) I sorted the data out by county so you can see which counties are struggling ...

Just in case you are on the Oklahoma State University campus Saturday and wonder what’s up with the bajillion people wearing fake mustaches, this is what’s up: (STILLWATER, Okla. April 15, 2013) – High school juniors and their families will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most people wearing fake mustaches at Oklahoma State University’s Junior Day event on April 20. The OSU Office of Undergraduate Admissions will provide Pistol Pete mustaches for prospective students, guests, staff and current students to wear at the event. The mustache was originally created for prospective students to take photos and submit on Twitter (@BeAnOSUCowboy) and Facebook (Be an OSU Cowboy).

In case you were wondering, this is happening: Flirt.com, an online dating site for the romantically adventurous, has looked at the Top 25 Liberal U.S. Cities and the Top 25 Conservative U.S. Cities [note: full list included at end of this release]. The Bar Area Center for Voting Research, a non-partisan think tank, compiled data on 237 cities with populations of at least 100,000 and ranked them each on liberal and conservative scales. At Flirt.com, we defined “flirtation” as the average amount of activity by our existing members in these states (per capita, i.e., mean average per member to control for population and membership differences). The site is owned and operated by Cupid plc, with a total of 54

Hurricane season is almost here, and once again, I’m kind of offended there isn’t a Hurricane Carrie. The National Weather Service just recycles names on a six-year schedule. Lazy? Probably. The lists that really apply to the United States are the Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific. In the Atlantic list, they don’t even bother with names starting with letters Q, U, X, Y or Z. In the Eastern North Pacific list, they skip Q and U. Lame? Indeed. It’s only a six-year cycle. Can we not come up with a total of 12 U names and 12 Q names? And we only need six more for X, Y and Z! Let’s get it together, people.

The Oklahoma City-County Health Department just sent out this info: The Tulsa Health Department and the Oklahoma State Department of Health announced yesterday they are notifying approximately 7,000 patients of a Tulsa dental practice about potential exposure to blood borne viruses following a joint investigation with the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry. The investigation revealed practices that could have exposed patients to infectious material. Patients who had procedures at Dr. W. Scott Harrington’s dental practice, located at 2111 S. Atlanta Place in Tulsa or at 12806 E. 86th Place N. in Owasso, Oklahoma will begin to receive letters in the mail. The notification includes patients who have visited Dr.

Last week I had the opportunity to interview Derrel Fincher, director of learning technologies at the state Education Department, about the future of education. One of the things we talked about was the switch from learning specific content to learning how to solve real-world problems. An example he gave was using math to solve engineering problems instead of simply learning math formulas. He talked about how people sometimes just say, “Oh, well, I’m not a math person.” It’s true! I hear people say that all the time. While this quote doesn’t really fit into my story, I absolutely love it: “Nobody goes around and says I can’t read, but it’s perfectly acceptable to go around and say

Look at these pups! Adorable! And then they both got technical fouls for mouthing off.   I found this photo while digging around in The Oklahoman‘s archives.

Can we agree that Lucas is the most hilarious kid?