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The pursuit of the world record for most marathons in a year took Belgian runner Stefaan Engels all the way across the world.  He ran in seven different countries and covered nearly 9,569 miles (all on foot) in the process.  Finally, the journey is over.  Stefaan Engels ran 365 marathons in 365 days.  Not bad […]

While the game took place deep in the heart of Texas, it may as well have been on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field as far as the Green Bay Packers were concerned.  The Pack stormed out to an early lead and then managed to hang onto it for the rest of the game, playing […]

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 […]

The path is set.  You go to high school, graduate, then go start college.  For most Americans, there’s no other real option.  However, does everyone need a college education?  Increasingly, experts are saying that not everyone needs an actual higher education to compete in the world.  For most people, vocational training and occupational certification would […]

In last year’s World Communications Address, Pope Benedict urged Catholics to become more proactive about embracing new media and using new technology to reach out to their fellow man.  Little did he know that Little iApps, a three-man app development team, would take those words to heart and create the world’s first church-approved confession app […]

If you’re looking to find a place to smoke in New York City, then things just got a little tougher for you.  Yesterday, the New York City Council approved a proposed smoking ban to go alongside its existing smoking ban indoors in public buildings.  This time, New York City has banned smoking in outdoor public […]

It was a love connection from the very start.  OkCupid has become one of the most popular dating websites online thanks to the fact that it’s free.  Match.com is one of the most popular dating websites online thanks to its layers of compatibility, screening service, and success at pairing up couples thanks to a survey process […]

Well, it’s over.  After years of speculation, the brilliant rock-and-roll band The White Stripes are calling it quits.  The White Stripes duo, Jack and Meg White, are breaking up as a band (many years after breaking up as a couple).  There’s no artistic difference or animosity between the two, and they’re both in fine health […]

While NASA continues to search for more rocky planets outside of the solar system, they’re also still searching for Earth-like planets here in our own backyard.  For example, Cygnus is one of our closest neighbors, from a galactic sense, and NASA has deployed the Kepler Space Telescope to study the Milky Way galaxy.  As it […]

When a suspicious package was discovered by a Bank of American branch at the Shoppes at Quail Roost in Miami, Florida, the first step was to evacuate the area.  The next step was to call in the bomb squad.  The Dade County police attempted to detonate the box with a robot, but nothing happened.  Bomb squad members […]

Your birth certificate is one of the most important documents you have.  It’s your first document, and it’s the document that basically allows you to exist as a human being.  Whatever you do, you need a birth certificate to prove you’re real.  Unfortunately for Iain Macmillan, he’s real but his birth certificate isn’t exactly accurate. […]

A woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, headed to the counter of her local US Postal Service location with a sealed Priority Mail shipping box.  The box was headed to Atlanta, Georgia.  The package was put on the counter, and the woman in question left the store.  Then, the box mysteriously threw itself off the counter.  Curious […]

Sometime within the next few hours, Cyclone Yasi will hit the northeastern coast of Australia, somewhere in Queensland.  This storm has developed, slowly but surely, and is now a category 5 storm.  Category 5 storms are the most dangerous, and most vicious storms on the sea, the Pacific Ocean version of a category 5 hurricane […]