Unusual Stuff

John Fox and John Elway, Denver’s head coach and VP of football operations, aren’t the biggest Tim Tebow fans.  Despite their quarterback’s winning ways, the two have been less than supportive of a quarterback playing in what amounts to his first full year of NFL action.  Under former head coach Josh McDaniels, Tebow showed some […]

We’re right in the midst of college football’s bowl season – a time when heroes are made. However, our heroes are still human beings who sometimes let us down. Unlike his moment of glory at Notre Dame when he was carried off the football field on the shoulders of his teammates, Daniel Ruettiger, or Rudy […]

When it comes to brain functioning, what’s known as a senior moment actually starts well before retirement age.  According to new research into brain functioning conducted at University College London, declines in memory and brain functioning start at age 45.  That’s significantly earlier than previously thought, which researchers had before believed started in the mid-60s. […]

Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market is one of the world’s busiest and most important fish auction houses.  It seems that every year or so, someone buys a bluefin tuna for a record price.  They’re kicking off the record prices early this year.  A bluefin tuna has been sold for a staggering $735,000, which is yet […]

Please bow before the all-mighty modem!  Recite the mantra “sharing is caring!” 20 times!  A 20-year-old philosophy student in Sweden has made file sharing an official state religion in his country, and his 3000-member church is growing strongly.  Isak Gerson founded the founded the Missionary Church of Kopimism in 2010, and filed a request with […]

Of all the bowl games in the run-up to the college football national championship, the one nobody was really paying attention to was the Orange Bowl.  Technically, it’s a BCS bowl game pitting the champion of the ACC versus the champion of the Big East, but that’s why nobody was really paying attention.  As it […]

In the wake of September 11, border security in the United States was tightened (at least on the Canadian side) and rules were changed.  No longer could Canadians cross the border freely without a passport; they now had to have a passport to get back and forth to the US.  Montreal man Martin Reisch, having […]

The iconic Star Wars character Darth Vader was such a large force it took three men to play him. James Earl Jones utilized his powerful voice to characterize the man behind the mask, while actor David Prowse was usually the performer wearing the dark headgear and flowing cape. That is except when Vader wielded his […]

Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Whether it’s created from office supplies or the first art carved into a cave wall in the Western Hemisphere, it is a very subjective medium. Like the public art display in New Orleans that asked passersby to tell us what they wanted to do before […]

What’s in a name?  For NBCUniversal parent company Comcast, everything is in a name.  Among the many assets purchased by the company when they bought the NBC Universal group of networks was a little-watched sports network called Versus.  Versus began its life as the Outdoor Life Network, then changed when bought by NBC; now, Versus […]

Getting divorced from Katy Perry might be the best financial move Russell Brand ever makes.  Brand, the actor and comedian who is worth an estimated $15 million, hitched his wagon to Perry a short time after the two met at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.  Since then, the couple’s romance has been tabloid fodder all […]

In a shocking crime, one of America’s most popular national parks has become a crime scene.  At beautiful Mt. Rainier National Park, 34-year-old park ranger and mother of two Margaret Anderson was shot and killed.  The gunman is an alleged Iraq War veteran and survivalist named Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, who disappeared into the woods […]

Every year, there’s a story about twins that split the New Year.  It happened in 2010-11, and it happened this year in a big way.  Not one, but two sets of children were born in different years this year.  Of course, this is a matter of hours, not a matter of weeks, but it’s still […]

Happy New Year PopFi readers. We’ve survived 2011 and now are steeling ourselves for the challenges and opening our arms to the joys that await us in 2012. After the celebrating and epic fireworks of New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day is often one of recovery from the night before and hopeful anticipation of the […]

  With the high divorce rate in the United States, lots of marriages get flushed away. For one couple, still together nearly 40 years later, it was their engagement ring that went down the toilet. Through a series of unusual circumstances, a couple in Stanford, Montana were able to retrieve the ring they thought was […]