If you dare ride your bike in downtown Black Hawk and get caught, you’ll face a $68 fine. There are signs posted in several spots around town that show a bicycle with a circle around it and a line across it; however if people miss it and didn’t read the section in the local newspaper [...]
The first images of birds covered in oil in the Gulf of Mexico are on the Big Picture. This is just the beginning of the ecological devastation caused by the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
Some statistics from last night’s 60 Minutes feature on the oil spill in the Gulf.
This is such a heart-breaking story. Lacrosse didn’t have a great name before, but this, combined with the “Duke Scandal of 2006″, certainly doesn’t help the sport’s image. Sports Illustrated Magazine: When they resumed working out on Thursday, nine days before the NCAA championships were to begin, the women were missing the speedy and clever [...]
Austrian Felix Baumgartner is planning to skydive from a balloon 121,000 feet (23 miles) above Earth’s surface. Insanity. What is it like to fall from space? According to Kittinger, who’s now working on the Stratos team, it’s surprisingly peaceful. With little air resistance, there’s almost no sensation of falling at high altitudes. “There’s no sound, [...]
