The real story about child maltreatment during the recession is a grim one. I spent months studying this topic, using a number of different data sources, including Google search queries. I found that the Great Recession caused a significant increase ...

It's the biggest find in 50 years and the media is completely ignoring it... It is 6 times larger than the Bakken, 17 times the size of the Marcellus formation, and 80 times larger than the Eagle Ford shale.

Justin Bieber's reign of teenage terror continues, this time with the oh-so-classy move of reliving himself in a mop bucket inside a nightclub kitchen. I believe it was a classy move, he could have just pissed all over the fucking floor, any may ...

Before we call Google Glass the next big revolution in tech, remember that it cannot answer one essential question.

Is the $50M heist in Belgium linked to a decade-old crime? By Christopher Dickey and Nadette De Visser.

As if regular cockroaches weren't awful enough, a professor at University of California, Berkley has created the VELOCIRoACH, a six-legged cardboard robot

Gadget Lab picks out the most memorable apps of the year, may they be for success, failure or hype.

Struggling over the role of women has been a big part of gaming culture's coming to grips with being a mainstream commercial behemoth.

Kenneth Putney, pictured, of Melbourne, Florida, scoffed three packs of instant noodles after he was rescued by Vietnamese fishermen who spotted him on the broken down yacht.

Not much is known about gunman Adam Lanza or his mother, Nancy Lanza, whose guns he used to carry out his attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. But reports that Nancy Lanza was a prepper are turning attention towards a nascent movement that has bee ...

From the NY Times (View larger version) In 1912 Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn was deemed the “most nearly perfect specimen of womanhood” out of 400 other coeds at Cornell that year. The 24-year-old Scheel had come to Cornell from Packer Collegiate In ...