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When it comes to robberies, museums are a tempting target.  Yes, there are lots of security  measures, but if you can get away from a museum with your haul intact, you’ll be making off like a bandit, literally.  There are hundreds of millions of dollars in art and antiques out there to be stolen, but […]

When it comes to secret agents, the biggest singer in the world isn’t really the sort of person who could fit that description.  However, when that singer is Adele Adkins, you might want to think again.  After all, she hid her pregnancy and even managed to get married in secret, which is pretty impressive with […]

Call me crazy, but Adam Sandler as animated Dracula?  I’m not crazy about the set-up, but I like a lot of things about the animated comedy Hotel Transylvania, and apparently I’m not the only one.  While I have not seen the film, everyone else in the country apparently did.  Hotel Transylvania broke the box office […]

California is one of the leaders of the gay rights movement.  Despite passing an anti-gay marriage law (that was blocked as unconstitutional), it’s a very liberal, gay-friendly state for the most part.  Hence, California is taking steps to improve the quality of life for gay teenagers, especially those under 18.  The controversial anti-gay therapy known […]

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, […]