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Our daughter has been known, on occasion, to exhibit extreme sensitivity to... let's call it "sensation." Ever since she has ...

To non-fans, car racing makes little sense. It is loud, expensive, wasteful of resources and, worst of all, boring. Even if all of those t...

It's now nearly midnight on a Sunday night, and I just got home from work after putting in about 15 hours at the office over the weekend...

Welcome to the premiere of video at Nowhere Near The Edge. Not a link to a YouTube clip, but original content. You always get prime produc...

Michael Jackson's death has made its mark on popular culture in ways that echo the significance he and his music had. His iconic album,...

70 games into the season, the New York Yankees, the colossus of a franchise with the eleventy-billion dollar payroll, has a record of 38 win...

One man runs over and kills a pedestrian while driving drunk in the middle of the night. Another man steals three bikes. One of these men ...

More amusing than cops who commit crimes, more obvious than the dentist who doesn't brush, a group of Oahu firefighters recently caused ...

Just as we were told by many people before we joined, the swim team experience has, to a significant degree, taken over our lives. It has d...

The latest series of Volkswagen ads, which feature a Microbus voiced by Thomas Hayden Church, also include another mid-century icon: the Ei...

Motorsport is perhaps the most unstable of all forms of professional sports. Not only are rules changes implemented on an annual basis (at ...

Originally scheduled to follow the Enterprise, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission has leapfrogged the manned mission and is scheduled...

This week's Mythbusters episode dealt with whether it is possible to stay dry in a convertible in the rain by driving fast. I could hav...

Summer vacation has arrived for the kids, much to their relief. Although they began their academic careers in a year-round system, they hav...

In recognition of the upcoming 40-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Popular Mechanics has compiled an oral history of the eve...

In a column about the noises made by some female tennis players (which I also find to be obnoxious at times), Sports Illustrated writer Jon ...

After the misery of the last couple of years, it's a good time to be a San Francisco Giants fan again. The club mortgaged its future in...

No, probably not. But we had a good time at the first dual meet of the season. Michael is still just learning the basics of swimming the f...

It is relatively common knowledge that the Space Shuttle Endeavor is scheduled to launch tomorrow morning for a trip to the International S...

A funny thing happened along the way to globalization of industry. Rather than become too big to fail, some prominent companies became too ...