Two teens from Toronto successfully launched a Lego figure into near space -- and launched a storm of interest on the Web. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old classmates at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, took four months, many Saturdays, and $400 to carry a Lego figurine and four cameras miles above the earth, a project that [...]
The '60s spawned incredible team-ups involving bands and mainstream comics. Some of the biggest, girl-mesmerizing bands were nerds, and if they weren't singing about guys like Batman and Spider-Man, they were creating original superheroes through song.
Earlier today we talked about some of the story aspects in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man that play into the 'untold story' that Sony is promising from
While political leaders continue to propose new bills that refine Internet freedom and privacy, one social, Internet organization plans to use political action committees to influence popular public opinion
Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.
It’s no secret that waistlines and food portions have been ballooning across America, the land of the free and home of the artery clogging super-sized value menu.
Crystal Warren, a 42-year-old retail manager from Brighton puts her sex addiction down to witnessing the breakdown of her parents marriage when she was five.
Being the president seems like it would be really difficult and scary but it's actually NBD. Anyone can do it. Well, anyone who is over 35 and was born in the United States, but those are literally the only rules. Crazy, right?
Yes, the shit people say meme is going beyond its expiration date. But, after viewing one video too many we've come to an understanding about the genre: The performances are often the most polite way ever of both making fun of a-holes (see Shit Westsiders Say) and shooting down stereotypes. The meme is very millennial -- as in the generation:
There is no doubt that police forces across America are transitioning into militarized departments; the Los Angeles Police department with the Pentagon Conducted Military drills over downtown L.A.
Soap star Nick Santino took his own life after he felt pressure to put down his dog and best friend from the building he lived in. How horrible. This is a
Having already covered how startups can use search and Twitter to find customers, here's 10 steps for finding people on another key marketing platform: Facebook
Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox admitted on Friday that he smoked marijuana in high school during the 1970s. (Hey, what a coincidence, so did I!) But during a symposium on marijuana reform, Cox said there are problems with legalizing cannabis, and he wouldn't support moves to do that in the state.
Facebook may file a prospectus as early as next week, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who demanded anonymity because discussions are private. But the company is still hammering out a final date.
The "cannabinoid homeostatic healing perspective" has quietly been gathering evidence over the last 10 years which overwhelmingly supports the need for human trials to test the use of medical marijuana as a psychiatric treatment. The 75 years of (mis)information we have been fed is now being shown to be unequivocally untrue.
Just off a rutted dirt road, a beach as white as flour pops into view from behind a wall of sea grape and rustling palms. Pelicans slice over turquoise waters, and not a single person stirs the quiet.
A federal judge today meted out a 78-month sentence for Colton Harris-Moore, whose infamous two year cross-country crime spree of burglaries and airplane theft has made him, for better or worse, something of a national legend. Songs were written about him, and he got a Facebook page. Books and movies are likely on the way. The sentencing, though, by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones, is of little consequence to the Barefoot Bandit...
The inside of her car — a weathered Honda Civic with "Nobama," Marco Rubio and Tea Party bumper stickers — smells like it's been fumigated with sweet incense. Steering with elbows and the occasional pinkie, she opens a Bible inscribed with her name and quotes scripture in her inimitable high-pitched voice. Then she turns the camera on a reporter riding shotgun. She suspects he's a socialist...
A message about how Captain Jean-Luc Picard feels about SOPA and PIPA. "You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: ' With the first l...
Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you're in Romney territory.
Beginning today, the state of Texas will begin upgrading the speed limit from 70 to 75 mph on about 1,500 miles of its interstate system.
Broadly-speaking, the upgrades apply to most of Texas' major interstate stretches that were previously marke
The flap involving Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama is the latest example of politicians behaving badly. Behavior that would have been seen as inappropriate in earlier eras now is viewed as principled confrontation.
A powerful geomagnetic storm creates extreme auroras in the skies above Abisko National Park in Sweden. This video was shot in three hours by Lights Over Lapland photographer Chad Blakley
The Department of Defense estimates that during 2010, as many as 19,000 women were raped in the military. Overall, more than twenty percent of women veterans report being raped by their coworkers either as recruits or as active duty members.
Nitrogen fertilizers have been crucial to feeding the increasing number of mouths on earth, but the pollution they leave behind has real consequences that have costs of their own.
Duracell? Energizer? The cheapie packages of AAs at the dollar store? Tired of dumping money blindly on batteries for Wii remote controllers, flashlights, Nerf guns, and the like, a physicist decides it's time to investigate which batteries truly give the most bang for the buck.