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Crickets can mean something different depending on who you talk to and where they’re from.  For the Chinese, crickets are a way of life.  For some people, crickets are pants-soiling fear bugs.  For others, crickets are a tasty snack.  I’m sure some people feel they’re a combination of these things, but for the people of […]

For the last nine years, a team of researchers at RIKEN’s Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science in Saitama, Japan, have been bombarding things with particle beams in an attempt to create one of the heaviest elements on the periodic table, Element 113.  While other elements around 113 have been discovered and named, including 114 and 116, […]

Good news, everyone!  Our long national sporting nightmare is over!  One of the biggest disasters of the 2012 National Football League season has been the replacement officials and the referee lockout the NFL owners instigated after negotiations failed.  The NFL was not willing to return to the negotiation table without concessions, but then a disaster […]

With all the hype around free agent Tim Tebow, it’s the Jets defense that should be getting all the attention.  Year after year, barring the occasional aberration, the New York Jets produce a quality defense, thanks to all-pro cornerback Darrelle Revis .  Now, the team is down one star defender; Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis will be […]

Despite advances in bee breeding, the honey bee is still a very threatened species.  Honey bees are needed to pollinate crops, create honey, and are generally very useful members of the animal kingdom, but there’s a new threat to their health alongside colony collapse and the usual dangers of living in the wild.  A parasitic […]

When you work on as large a scale as technology manufacturer Foxconn, things have a tendency to go big.  Robots are ordered in the millions, workers threaten suicide by the hundreds, and apparently personal disputes involve thousands of people.  More than 2000 workers rioted at a Foxconn factory in Taiyuan, China, after a personal dispute […]

You have to hand it to Jimmy Kimmel.  On the biggest stage of his career, the 2012 Emmy Awards, he made sure to do his own thing as much as he could.  The late night talk show host is known for his creative pranks, and he wasn’t going to shy away from that sort of […]

The MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas’s Houston enclave is one of the world’s leading cancer research and treatment hospitals.  They’ve established themselves as the leaders of the fight against cancer, and the hospital is taking that leadership a step further.  MD Anderson Cancer Center has established the Moon Shots Program, in […]

When the Amazon Kindle debuted in 2010, there were multiple retailers lined up and waiting for the chance to sell Kindles to America, including Best Buy, Walmart, and Target.  Well, as Amazon’s business has grown and big box retailers have struggled to keep up with ease of use and lower prices, those Kindles look increasingly […]

There’s a lot of incest going on in this world.  Well, I don’t know if it’s a lot, but there definitely is incest going on in this world.  As the family union shatters and people separate and stray farther and farther afield to find mates, you’re going to have more incidents of unusual, inter-family marriage, […]

One of the biggest stars in Spanish music, the tiny blond belly dancer known as Shakira is expanding her empire.  Not only is she joining the cast of a hit reality television show, she’s adding to her list of many, many talents.  Joining that list is parent.  Shakira is pregnant with her first child; the […]

With no experience as a professional videographer, Ed Sabol won the rights to get video tape of the 1962 NFL championship game.  In 1964, the company that Sabol started became NFL Films, and Ed and son Steve Sabol would pilot NFL Films from a tiny company to the most successful sports video company in the […]

When you’re going to put something down in permanent letters, be it a road sign or a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, you need to make absolutely sure you spell it right.  One dumb vandal in York City, Pennsylvania has found him or herself to be the butt of nationwide jokes after he […]

At 2 AM on Sunday morning, the Lowes Vanderbilt Hotel had to be evacuated because the fire alarm went off, but the culprit wasn’t actually a fire, simply a flying tomato.  Specifically, “The Flying Tomato” Shaun White.  The 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics medalists and multiple-times X-Games medalist apparently had a little too much to […]

The good news just doesn’t end for Apple.  Steve Jobs or no, Cupertino, California’s favorite technology company keeps churning out updated models of hit products time and time again.  The 4G iPhone sold out in a day by moving 600,000 units; the 4S iPhone sold 1,000,000 phones.  The iPhone 5 just absolutely crushed that sales […]