Robin Wirth

NASA Gets Mars Probes Ready For Close Comet Flyby

NASA is preparing the probes orbiting the planet Mars for a close comet flyby in October. Great concerns for the safety of the spacecrafts orbiting the planet, including one due to arrive shortly before Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, has prompted NASA to take action. The comet’s nucleus is expected to miss Mars by about […]

10y ago

astrology|history

Why Do We Celebrate Birthdays?

In honor of Wil Wheaton’s birthday (as well as my own) I thought I would look up how come we celebrate birthdays to begin with. Most people today who celebrate birthdays tend to have parties and the birthday person receives gifts from them, along with some rendition of a birthday song as they blow out […]

10y ago

What Parts Of The Face Contribute To A First Impression?

Within the realm of studying facial features, new research has just revealed that certain areas of the face can directly impact a person’s first impressions of you. Of course, most folks think judging another person they just met is as simple as taking note of a smile or frown, or a look in their eyes […]

10y ago

Daniel Radcliffe|harry potter|spider-man

Harry Potter Attends Comic-Con–As Spider-Man?

As unbelievable as this may sound, if you endured the endless lines to get into Comic-Con 2014 in San Diego this year and saw someone dressed as Spider-Man, you may have actually been looking at Harry Potter–or at least the actor who played him. Daniel Radcliffe couldn’t resist a bit of covert activity during the […]

10y ago

mars|russia

NASA Needs Commercial Satellite Communications Services On Mars

Because the satellites currently orbiting the Earth are getting old and the data NASA is after is so sensitive in nature, the space agency would like to set up a much better relay system with the red planet and all the equipment there. With this in mind, they have put out a call for a […]

10y ago

Ronald Reagan

Sunday Was National Ice Cream Day

Despite the apparent public dissatisfaction with a few concerning ingredients in some ice creams, there’s still cause to celebrate the deliciousness of ice cream as a whole. With that in mind, the frozen treat has — still unofficially — it’s own holiday. Back in 1984, President Reagan proclaimed the month of July National Ice Cream […]

10y ago

A Completely Spotless Sun Baffles Scientists

The Sun has gone eerily quiet recently. As evidenced by recent solar activity and the known history of the solar maximum occurring every 11 years, this phenomenon is quite odd. Solar maximum is supposed to be the time when the Sun is at its most active. The massive ball of gas should be sporting all […]

10y ago

Cold War|cuba|russia

Putin Revives Old Cold War Spy Base In Cuba

The Lourdes spy base, located south of Havana, was originally opened in 1964 shortly after the Cuban missile crisis. Strategically placed just 150 miles from the U.S. coast, it had been ideal for gathering information about our country during the Cold War. At the peak of the Cold War Lourdes was the largest single intelligence […]

10y ago

comedy

John Cleese, Of Monty Python, To Release An Autobiography in October

And now for something completely different… Monty Python fans the world over should be singing of dead parrots and spam today as they celebrate John Cleese’s announcement that the long-awaited story of his life shall be published in October. The title of the book is So Anyway, and the 74-year-old comedian has mentioned many of […]

10y ago

Daniel Radcliffe|harry potter|supernatural

Daniel Radcliffe Shows His Evil Side

Daniel Radcliff, once a proud member of the Golden Trio, appears to have fallen from grace. At least that’s the way it looks since they released a poster of his latest role in an adaptation of Joe Hill’s critically acclaimed novel, Horns. It’s the tale of a man accused of killing his girlfriend who wakes […]

10y ago

Adam Levine|behati prinsloo|Maroon 5|victoria's secret

Maroon 5 Lead Singer Adam Levine’s Wedding Seems ‘Natural’

With less than a week to go before he takes his wedding vows, Maroon 5’s lead singer Adam Levine is looking forward to the day. “I definitely feel like I’m sitting in the chair I’m supposed to be sitting in right now,” the 35-year-old singer told People Magazine. “It all feels very natural.” One thing […]

10y ago

ian mckellen

Ian McKellen As A 93-Year-Old Sherlock Holmes?

If you happen to follow Ian McKellen, you may be interested to know that he Tweeted a pic Friday of himself as the legendary English sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. The actor, best known for his roles as Magneto and Gandalf, now gets to portray yet another icon in the annals of literary fiction in an upcoming […]

10y ago

kanye west|London|stacey dash

Kanye West’s ‘Rape’ Comment Offends Stacey Dash

Last week while on stage at the London Wireless Festival, Kanye West was feeling mighty frustrated about something, and voiced his opinion on it. The irate rapper told the audience: “I want to bring my family to the movies without 30 motherf**kers following me. Everybody here, they like sex right? Sex is great when you […]

10y ago

anime

The Woman Behind Sailor Moon S and SS

Linda Ballantyne was one of the voices for the 1990s anime character, Sailor Moon. For the past twenty years, Linda has worked professionally on stage, screen, and television, and she’s been heard in hundreds of radio and television commercials worldwide. The intrepid actress was born in Canada on Valentine’s day, and that’s a good thing […]

10y ago

australia|Twitter

‘Fireball in the sky’: Massive Flaming object lights up Australian sky

Australians were treated to quite the light show Thursday night as a massive fireball shot across the sky over Victoria and New South Wales. Reports of the fireball being visible over Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland were also made. Some of the witnesses at first believed the massive fireball in the sky to be a […]

10y ago

Blue Whales Prevail in the News This Week

It looks like the blue whales are looking for some media attention this week. Intentional or not, here’s a bit of the news they generated. Around the first of July, New Zealand ended up with a brand new tourist attraction when the largest animal who ever lived drifted onto the beach of North island. People […]

10y ago

chris rock|Gun Control

BET Awards Ceremony Started Off Troubled, Ended in Triumph

During the height of hilarity thanks to host Chris Rock at the BET awards, a few pre-show parties that were not affiliated with the actual event got way out of hand. Though the organizers of these events touted them as BET awards pre-shows, the network insists they were unaffiliated with either of them. Saturday night, […]

10y ago

animals

Weird Trend in Animal News

Is it just me, or has the end of the week turned into a trip down the yellow brick road? Reading the breaking news over the last few days, I have come across weird events involving lions, tigers, and bears respectively, so I cannot resist sharing the tales. A woman climbed into a lion’s cage […]

10y ago

Newly-Found Exoplanet Shows Promise in the Search for Life

Scientists have just discovered another exoplanet, and this one has them quite excited. Gliese 832c dwells within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star just 16 light years away from our own. Abel Mendez Torres, director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Pueto Rico at Arecibo said, “The Earth Similarity Index […]

10y ago

eclipse|jupiter

Eclipsed Moons of Jupiter Still Shine

Normally, if a planet blocks the sun from shining on its moon, there would be no light left to make that moon continue to glow, but in the case of the four largest moons of Jupiter, that just isn’t so. Even when they are not directly illuminated by the Sun, Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto […]

10y ago