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Pat Summitt turned an afterthought into a powerhouse.  On February 17, 1985, the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers entered the Associated Press top 25 rankings for women’s basketball.  That streak has now ended.  The Lady Vols are out of the Top 25 after a staggering 31 year run near the top of women’s basketball.  That’s a […]

It seems like there’s only one real place women go to hide things.  It doesn’t matter what they’re smuggling, whatever they’re hiding gets stuffed into their bra.  Lots of cash?  The bra is fashion’s perfect pocket, and since there’s metal in bras, they can sometimes fool metal detectors.  However, some enterprising smugglers went past the […]

Burger King is a company in crisis.  Sure, all signs point to the company’s resurgence thanks to a 5 for $4 offer to get people into doors, but there’s still the perception that Burger King is America’s second (or third) fast food choice, and that won’t change any time soon unless Burger King changes it. […]

With every passing year, it seems like people are getting closer and closer to the habitats of some of nature’s most dangerous creatures.  In places like India, for example, those creatures can be really, really dangerous.  India is home to many rare and dangerous big cats, and those big cats are increasingly coming into contact […]

The more drones reach out to the skies, the more problems people are having with them.  Drones are straying into airports, traveling onto people’s property, and can be a huge nuisance in the wrong hands.  That’s why Dutch police are searching into ways to control drones.  There are ideas to remotely hack them, shoot them […]

Ridesharing platforms are big.  Uber is the thing to do if you’re going out on the town and don’t want to have to worry about finding parking, and Lyft is right there behind them, separated by only a few stray pink mustache hairs.  Now it looks like a bigger company is going to get out […]

For the second year in the row, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rolled out an Oscar list that was pretty pale in color.  No blacks were nominated for any of the major award, and of course, that means black celebrities have been complaining non-stop.  Of course, when some people speak out, others […]

The Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust, the Space Oddity, the guy in the tight pants from Labyrinth, David Bowie has had a lot of identities over his career, morphing from rock to soul to electronica to movie star to music superstar to androgynous chameleon.  He was even the first artist to be covered in a […]

Dubai has been on a really impressive building building streak in the last few years.  It seems that every week Dubai is doing something else impressive, like building the world’s largest building.  Still, fast growth means there are some problems every so often.  It seems that every cool project has some kind of problem to […]

You would be surprised by just how much power local mayors have.  You’d think that an official in a town would be fairly limited, but you’d be wrong.  Mayors can be very powerful, and like all politicians, they are prone to their vices.  After all, they’re only human.  And humans can have disagreements.  The mayor […]

There’s just something about LeBron James that seems to be able to capture the imagination of the public.  Maybe it’s part of the circus that surrounds him:  free agency signing specials, moving from his hometown team to a big media market, moving back to Cleveland, and so on.  Everyone seems to want to pay attention […]

Target’s gotten so popular that they have difficult staying online.  Target’s website tends to crash under high loads, if only because Target is offering such cool things at such good prices.  Even when Target is prepared to handle a big crowd, they’re not really prepared to handle the kind of crowd they draw.  Target’s website […]

There’s nothing quite like a live Nativity scene.  Some poor churchgoers shivering in costumes meant for a much hotter country, hopefully warmed by good cheer and discreet heaters.  However, some churches bring their nativity indoors, and it was one nativity scene in Queens, New York where the manger was put to good use once again, […]

Adele has a lot of power in the music industry, because she’s one of the biggest stars in the musical world.  So when Adele and her camp decide something’s not right for their client, it doesn’t happen.  In this case, Adele is flipping the bird to streaming services.  Adele’s new album 25 will not be […]