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On July 17, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third of the Kim dynasty that has ruled the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since the communist revolution in 1953, earned a new title.  His late father and grandfather have permanent titles, even after death, but that doesn’t mean Kim Jong Un isn’t getting his fair share of […]

Marissa Mayer has made a history of achieving despite expectations.  The former ballerina (she danced in The Nutcracker at Stanford) has achieved a lot in a comparatively short time.  In 1999, she became Google’s 20th employee and first female engineer.  The nicknamed Googirl rose up the ranks at that company to become one of Google’s […]

Tragedy has struck the Stallone family.  According to authorities, the body of Sage Stallone, Sylvester Stallone’s son, was found dead in his home in Los Angeles.  The 36-year-old starred alongside his father in Rocky V and Daylight before becoming an actor and director in his own right.  He was also the founder and president of Grindhouse […]

For three weeks, an autistic 28-year-old named William Martin LaFever was lost in the desert in southern Utah.  Searchers had given up finding him alive, due to the incredible heat and dryness in the nation, let alone the fearsome Escalante Desert.  However, William LaFever somehow survived three weeks in the desert eating roots and frogs […]

When it rains, it pours for troubled companies.  Such is the case with former tech giant Yahoo!, who has struggled recently with CEO firings and the recent departure of founder Jerry Yang.  Well, now they’ve got a security problem and public relations nightmare to deal with.  Hackers apparently used Yahoo Voices to break into Yahoo […]

Once upon a time, there were nine planets in the solar system.  Then some crazy astronomer got it in his head to remove Pluto from the equation, describing the smallest and most distant planet in the solar system as something more like a moon and less like an actual planet.  Well, the joke’s on him, […]

The US Women’s National Team is one of the medal favorites at the 2012 London Olympics, and a great deal of those hopes rest on Dancing With The Stars contestant and USWNT goalie Hope Solo.  One of the keys of the women’s soccer team, without Solo the ladies would face a much tougher road to […]

Retired manager and the National League coach for the 83rd All-Star Game Tony La Russa received quite a bit of criticism for his choice to start San Francisco Giants ace Matt Cain–who threw the first perfect game in Giants history earlier this season–over surprise success story R.A. Dickey.  As it turns out, that wasn’t a […]

You can call Fifty Shades of Grey and the other entries in the Fifty Shades trilogy a mommy porn version of Twilight, and that’s not far from the truth.  After all, the best-selling series of books by E. L. James started life as Twilight fan-fiction and became something significantly more disturbing.  Well, that disturbance is […]

Last week, 35 American flags were stolen from the graves of Civil War veterans in Hudson, New York’s Cedar Park Cemetery.  Police figured that the flag thief was probably local kids, or someone looking to cause trouble, and volunteers replaced the flags.  The following night, 17 more US flags were taken.  That’s when police set […]

When it comes to unusual lives, nobody had a better run than Ernest Borgnine.  Born Ermes Effron Borgnino, the actor’s career started out in serious acting, but he would go on to become a sitcom legend before all was said and done.  After spending 10 years in the Navy and fighting in World War II–where […]

Spider-Man remains one of Marvel’s most enduring creations.  The story of Peter Parker, a nerdy teenager who gets super-powers after a bite from a radioactive spider, fits in the classic Marvel comic book mold of accidents granting super powers.  As it turns out, the latest adventure of Spider-Man is only the first part of a […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have needed a point guard for the better part of a decade.  The team had Derek Fisher for years, but he was never really a good point guard.  After trying to get Chris Paul only to have the trade rejected by the NBA, the Lakers made due with what they had […]

The tendency is to dismiss lifeguards as a joke, thanks to people like Pam Anderson and the incredibly popular yet incredibly stupid show Baywatch, but in the real world, lifeguards are heroes.  Water can be very dangerous, and the whole role of a lifeguard is to wade into the water and rescue helpless swimmers, which […]