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Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga had it.  The 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history, and the third this season, was his.  All he had to do was beat Cleveland Indians shortstop Jason Donald to first base, field the ball, and it would be in the record books.  Unfortunately for Armando, the guy covering […]

In 2009, the US Air Force collected over 1,800 hours worth of data a month from video surveillance systems, most of which comes from those unmanned vehicles and drone planes used to scout the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.  That’s a whole lot of video footage; indeed, it is too much for the current video […]

The people who make movies want to use every trick they can muster to provoke a reaction from the audience.  That reaction is the key that separates a box-office bomb from a billion-dollar picture.  One of the key elements to any movie is the soundtrack:  the music and ambient sounds that fill up the space […]

Despite millions of dollars poured into research, masses of publicity on detection, and research on what foods could and could not prevent it, there’s still no cure for cancer.  However, if an injection developed at the Cleveland Clinic proves to be true, we just might be able to prevent breast cancer in the same manner […]

It’s a boon to both the criminal and the criminally poor.  They were featured prominently on the show The Sopranos as a great way to make phone calls without attracting too much attention, and they’re beloved by people who either A) don’t like a monthly bill, B) don’t like a long-term contract, or C) like […]

Claire Hallam was looking for a place to park in Lewisham, a neighborhood in South London.  Since London, England, is one of the biggest cities in the world, parking is at a premium.  So when Claire saw a blue P parking sign, indicating that sometimes you can park there and sometimes you can’t, she pulled […]

Fantasy, meet reality!  For years, people who are typically into fantasy and science fiction and whatnot were beaten up for being nerds and outcasts by the dudes that played sports.  That’s just how it used to go:  if you were busy working on your Comic-Con outfit, you should expect some antagonizing comments, at the very […]

Two people who we’ll call James and Maura, both from out of town and visiting friends, meet in a club.  In spite of the 150 kilometers (about 93 miles) separating the two of them, they hit it off.  After two years of long distance, Maura gets pregnant, and she and James settle down to raise […]

I don’t throw around words like “destiny” too often, but if you can ever say that a couple of kids were destined to get married, it’s Amy Singley and Stephen Smith.  The pair, from eastern Pennsylvania, were born on the same day (April 17, 1986) in the same hospital (St. Luke’s Hospital in Fountain Hill, […]