The legendary Star Wars creator, George Lucas has just announced the final winner of the host city to his overly-anticipated museum of art and movie memorabilia (most of which will undoubtedly be Star Wars related), in a huge victory for the nation’s third-largest city, Chicago won as the final selection.
The two other cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles were aggressive...
A new 'green paving' business, founded by Binghamton locals Zeljka Roksandic and Robert Gerard, is now showing incredible signs of growth. The business is headquartered at 123 Court St., where it distributes and sells recycled plastic grids for 'green' surfacing. They recently donated a total of 320 square feet of their product to create an access path at Columbus Park in the downtown Binghamton.
The...
Sean O’Connor from Atlanta was just blown out of his shoes on Saturday by lightning and miraculously lived to tell the story.
O’Connor, who recently turned 30, was casually raking his yard on Saturday morning when he heard a loud sudden crack. “It sounded like a tree falling over, it threw me across the driveway and knocked me out of my shoes.”
Disoriented, O’Connor initially...
Everyone's potential is limitless, especially now that most of the world is connected to the internet, so what's holding you back? We all have excuses for our lack of success, we are constantly saying things like, “Life got in the way,” or “I can’t handle anymore rejection.”
The good news is that we always have a choice to move past the...
The government is now tracking the great white sharks Katherine and Betsy in the Gulf of Mexico.
Researchers say Katherine, weighing 2,300 pounds, is only about 100 miles southwest from the Florida coast, and Betsy, at 1,400 pounds, was last tracked earlier this month 120 miles west of Sanibel Island, Fla., yet what just happened off the coast of Galveston to...
After Emmanuel Niyenzima's parents were both killed, the 24-year-old fled the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2009 he came to Houston to seek refuge and find a fresh start.
"Houston is a really good city. It is a place where your future can be born if you work hard. To get the opportunity to go to school full time is hard...
It has been science fiction for decades, but we are finally about the start launching regular, commercial space flights.
Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane, SpaceShipTwo a brainchild of Virgin's founder Richard Branson, is based on the Ansari X prize-winning SpaceShipOne, a solution to a challenging problem: How do you create a ship that can transport visitors to outer space and return them to...
If you're an American or if you hate all sports sports, you might not know which soccer (futball) team you should be rooting for in this year's world cup. Here is a scientifically accurate flow-chart to help you determine your World Cup team alliances and for your overall growth as a human being.
Once you have your team picked, it's time to memorize...
The city of New Orleans was just named the "most livable city" in the nation by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
A group of former mayors from around the country selected the winning cities from a pool of over 200 applicants.
The Conference of Mayors made the announcement in its 82nd annual meeting in Dallas this week. The "city livability" award...
Most CEOs of large public companies earn hundreds of thousands a year in salary, but once you account for the options and restricted shares included in their pay packages, their total compensation often reaches in the millions.
Charlotte is our nation's second-largest financial hub, and the big banks tend to pay their top executives lavishly, but what might be surprising, is that only...