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Time to add an other animal death pip for the Google Maps animal death tracker.  For the third year in a row, thousands of velvet swimming crabs (Necora puber) have been found dead on a beach in Thanet Coast, England.  It’s almost a tradition for crabs to die by the thousands in Thanet.  This year’s crab death […]

Carrington High School in North Dakota is something of a local wrestling powerhouse.  Carrington has won three regional wrestling tournaments in a row, and was in position to capture their fourth, except for one problem:  raccoons.  At a tournament in Grand Forks, Carrington was all set to compete until school officials heard that the Carrington team was […]

Longtime PopFi readers will remember the story of Thorpe Park.  Thorpe Park is a theme park in Chertsey, Surry, in the UK, that features a lot of strange attractions.  For example, Thorpe Park’s Saw roller coaster and horror maze collected visitor urine for a smell stunt.  Now, apparently, Thorpe Park’s latest ride has to be […]

In 2005, a left-leaning political blog called the Huffington Post was launched by the eccentric political commentator Arianna Huffington.  Originally envisioned as a left-wing counterpoint to The Drudge Report, The Huffington Post has gone so far beyond that original vision it’s not even funny.  The site has expanded in recent months to include everything from […]

It seems like there’s been a lot of garbage in the news lately, beginning with the Christmas blizzard that left New York City awash in trash. And while that situation eventually proved strangely advantageous, saving the life of a suicidal jumper, citizens of Palm Bay, Florida probably won’t be looking for any upsides if municipal […]

Let’s be honest. The food you really want to eat at a Super Bowl party isn’t the healthiest. The only way most of us will eat crudites is if they’re plopped alongside a mound of hot wings. Or honey-BBQ wings, if that’s more your speed. But if you’re thinking about opening up a bag of […]

When you think of Russia, you probably don’t think of mummies. Those are more Egypt’s territory than anything else. But sources in Moscow report that preserved corpses have begun turning up in residential areas. On Thursday, Russian police uncovered the mummified body of an elderly man in an apartment in northeastern Moscow. Authorities believe this […]

In December, a man wearing all black and a motorcycle helmet robbed the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, of nearly $1.5 million dollars worth of chips.  While he was careful to conceal his identity in real life, Anthony Michael Carleo wasn’t so careful about concealing who he was online.  Anthony Carleo, the […]

With snow lingering on the ground in many parts of the U.S., and more turning up in the forecast, it’s very tempting to resign oneself to sitting the season out and just hibernating until spring arrives. Not happy with weather-limited social activities, a small group of students from northern Minneapolis has taken the initiative to […]

When it comes to the Nobel Prize, it’s hard to tell who is going to win if only because the candidate lists are always kept a tightly-guarded secret.  For example, US President Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize win came out of nowhere (mostly because he hasn’t done anything to earn it).  However, one long-shot candidate to […]

When it comes to the Super Bowl, fans expect more.  From the big, flashy halftime show to the epic commercials, fans expect more than just football with their football game.  However, one element of the cavalcade of excess that comes along with the Super Bowl will be missing from the sidelines:  cheerleaders.  The Green Bay […]

The sniffer of the average canine just might be the most useful weapon in the fight against cancer ever discovered by scientists.  I knew the dog’s nose was amazing, but never knew just how amazing until Japanese researchers uncovered a quirk about specially-trained cancer-sniffing dogs.  When given the breath or stool of a person, dogs […]

In what is widely seen as the first real attempt by a major news organization to turn their print media empire into a digital media empire, News Corp has made tentative first steps into the world of delivering news to the wildly popular Apple iPad on a subscription basis with the launch of The Daily. […]